OKC Native And Mercer Coach Bob Hoffman Leads Bears Past Duke

Mercer's upset of Duke on Friday had an Oklahoma feel to it with Oklahoma City native Bob Hoffman on the sidelines as the Bears' head coach. 

Friday, March 21st 2014, 5:08 pm

By: News 9


The Mercer Bears pulled off the biggest upset of this season's NCAA tournament so far as OKC native Bob Hoffman coached the Bears past Duke on Friday, 78-71.

Daniel Coursey scored 17 points and Jakob Gollon added 20 points for the 14th-seeded Bears.

The Bears were simply too much for a Duke team with stars Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood.

Mercer scored 11 straight points during the late 20-5 run that clinched the biggest victory in school history. It's the second one-and-done in three years for the third-seeded Blue Devils.

Hoffman was born and raised in Oklahoma City and played college basketball at Oklahoma Baptist. He was the women's basketball coach at Southern Nazarene from 1987-1990 before returning to his alma mater as the head men's basketball coach until 1999. After a five-year stint as the head coach at Texas-Pan American, Hoffman returned to Oklahoma as an assistant coach under OU coach Kelvin Sampson.

Hoffman became the Mercer head coach in 2008.

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