Robert Weinhauer (born May 23, 1939) is an American former
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
coach and executive. He served as the head basketball coach at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
from 1977 to 1982 and at
Arizona State University from 1982 to 1985, compiling a career
college basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...
record of 143–90. Weiner led the
Penn Quakers
The Penn Quakers are the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania. The school sponsors 33 varsity sports. The school has won three NCAA national championships in men's fencing and one in women's fencing.
School colors
There are s ...
to the Final Four of the
1979 NCAA Division I basketball tournament
The 1979 NCAA Division I basketball tournament involved 40 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 9 and ended with the championship game on M ...
. Weinhauer spent one season, 1985–86, as the head coach for the
Detroit Spirits
The Savannah Spirits were a professional basketball team that played for two years in the Continental Basketball Association from 1986 to 1988, amassing a total regular season record of 42 wins and 60 losses for a total of 306.5 points. The team ...
of the
Continental Basketball Association (CBA) before moving to the
National Basketball Association
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, where he worked as an assistant coach, scout, and executive. He served as the general manager for the
Houston Rockets from 1994 to 1996 and the
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 ...
from 1997 to 1999.
Before coming to Penn as an assistant in 1973, Weinhauer coached
football, basketball, and
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
at
Massapequa High School
Massapequa High School is a public high school located in Massapequa, New York, United States, for students in grades 10 through 12.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,825 students and 142.4 classroom teachers (on an ...
in
Massapequa, New York.
Head coaching record
College
See also
*
List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach
References
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1939 births
Living people
American basketball scouts
American men's basketball coaches
Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball coaches
Atlanta Hawks assistant coaches
Baseball catchers
Baseball players from New York (state)
Basketball coaches from New York (state)
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Continental Basketball Association coaches
Cortland Red Dragons baseball players
High school baseball coaches in the United States
High school basketball coaches in New York (state)
High school football coaches in New York (state)
Houston Rockets general managers
Milwaukee Bucks assistant coaches
Milwaukee Bucks executives
Minnesota Timberwolves assistant coaches
Penn Quakers men's basketball coaches
People from Oyster Bay (town), New York
Philadelphia 76ers assistant coaches
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Sportspeople from Nassau County, New York
Sportspeople from New York City
Massapequa High School alumni