T. L. Plain

T. L. Plain
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Basketball
Born	Sacramento, KY
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1949-1953	Breckenridge County [HS]
1953-1957	Henderson City [HS]
1957-1959	Vincennes Lincoln [HS]
1959-1963	Kentucky Wesleyan College
1964-1967	Vincennes Lincoln [HS]
1967-1969	University of Louisville (Assist.)
1969-1971	University of Kentucky (Assist.)
1971-1973	Utah State University

Truman Layton Plain, better known as T. L. Plain is a former American basketball coach. Plain graduated from Western Kentucky State Teachers College in 1950, and received his master's degree from Murray State. Plain coached various high school basketball and baseball teams in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana in the 1950s and 1960s^[1] From 1959-1963 T.L. Plain was the coach of the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers where he coached the team to two NCAA Division II Tournaments. After two years of assistant coaching at University of Louisville Plain became an assistant coach for the University of Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp.^[2] While at Kentucky, he was a part of the 1970 NCAA Runner up team. When Rupp was forced to retire by state law, the choice was down to Joe B. Hall and Plain for the head coaching position. T. L. Plain get the chance at a Division I school with Utah State University. His post coaching career included coordinator of convention sales at the Executive Inn in Evansville, Indiana. Since 2005 he has resided in Owensboro, Kentucky

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Postseason
Kentucky Wesleyan (Independent) (1959–1963)
1959-60	Kentucky Wesleyan	18-11	NCAA Div II Third Place
1960-61	Kentucky Wesleyan	15-8	NCAA Div II First Round
1961-62	Kentucky Wesleyan	21-4
1962-63	Kentucky Wesleyan	9-11
Kentucky Wesleyan:		63-34
Utah State (Independent) (1971–1973)
1971–1972	Utah State	12-14
1972–1973	Utah State	16-10
Utah State:		28-24
Total:		91-58
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball head coaches

V. I. Moore (1907–1910)
Unknown (1910–1916)
John Cobb (1916–1917)
Unknown (1917–1919)
William E. Arnold (1919–1920)
Jesse Sibley (1920–1922)
Basil Hayden (1922–1923)
L. G. Mansfield (1923–1924)
C. A. Webb (1924–1927)
E. R. Miller (1927–1928)
Walter "Rip" Van Winkle (1928–1932)
George Ditto (1932–1941)
Arthur Gullette (1941–1942)
Robert "Bullet" Wilson (1942–1959)
T. L. Plain (1959–1963)
Guy R. Strong (1963–1967)
Bob Daniels (1967–1972)
Bob Jones (1972–1980)
Mike Pollio (1980–1985)
Wayne Chapman (1985–1990)
Wayne Boultinghouse (1990–1996)
Ray Harper (1996–2005)
Todd Lee (2005–2013)
Happy Osborne (2013– )

Utah State Aggies men's basketball head coaches

George Campbell (1903–1904)
No team (1904–1905)
George Campbell (1905–1907)
Mysterious Walker (1907–1908)
Clayton Teetzel (1908–1914)
Joseph Jensen (1914–1919)
Dick Romney (1919–1941)
Robert Burnett (1941–1942)
D. D. Young (1942–1943)
No team (1943–1944)
D. D. Young (1944–1945)
Bebe Lee (1945–1947)
Joe Whitesides (1947–1950)
H. Cecil Baker (1950–1961)
LaDell Andersen (1961–1971)
T. L. Plain (1971–1973)
Dutch Belnap (1973–1979)
Rod Tueller (1979–1988)
Kohn Smith (1988–1993)
Larry Eustachy (1993–1998)
Stew Morrill (1998–2015)
Tim Duryea {2015– )

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