Bob Burchard is a retired men's basketball coach who spent 31 seasons as the head coach at Columbia College in

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. He compiled a record of 788-269 (.746 win percentage) before retiring at the end of the 2018-19 season. His teams advanced to the NAIA Men's

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tournaments 22 times including 21 of his last 25 seasons. Burchard was named American Midwest Conference coach of the year 12 times. In May 1996, Burchard earned the Columbia Kiwanis

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Sportsperson of the Year Award (named after the former

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football coach). In the summer of 2008, he was also inducted to the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association (MBCA) Hall of Fame. During the 2010

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Final Four, Coach Burchard received the Guardians of the Game Leadership Pillar Award. (Guardians of the Game is a national awareness and education program that focuses on the positive aspects of

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and the interaction of coach-student/athlete).The Official Athletics Website Of The Columbia College Cougars
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* https://columbiacougars.com/news/2019/1/15/general-hall-of-fame-mens-basketball-coach-and-athletic-director-bob-burchard-to-retire-following-2018-19-season.aspx Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sportspeople from Columbia, Missouri Columbia College (Missouri) people Basketball coaches from Missouri {{US-basketball-coach-stub

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