Mike Anderson was born on December 12, 1959 (1959-12-12) and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. where he attended Jackson-Olin High School in the Ensley-Pratt City neighborhood, leading the Mustangs to the semifinals of the Alabama state basketball tournament and averaging 19 points per game in his junior and senior years and winning all-state honors. Anderson moved on to Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, where he was spotted by an opposing coach named Nolan Richardson. When Richardson was offered the coaching job at the University of Tulsa, he quickly offered Anderson a scholarship. In Anderson's two years with the Golden Hurricane he averaged 12 points a game, and the team won an NIT title and gained an NCAA tournament berth.
Current position
Title : Head coach
Team : Arkansas men's basketball coach
Record : 111–57 (.661)
Annual salary ($2,000,000)
Coaching career
1989-1994 : American Legion
1991-1994 : Northern Colorado Lab School
Toronto Blue Jays (Scout)
1992-1993 : Northern Colorado (Asst.)
1994 : Nebraska (Asst.)
1995-2002 : Nebraska
2002–2006 : UAB
2006–Present Missouri
Championships
2009 Big 12 Tournament
Awards
2004 Conference USA Coach of the Year
2008–09 NABC Co-Coach of the Year
Anderson was also one of ten finalists for the 2008-09 Henry Iba Award. The other 9 finalists were John Calipari, Memphis; Bill Self (eventual winner), Kansas; Jamie Dixon, Pittsburgh; Mike Montgomery, California; Stew Morrill, Utah State; Matt Painter, Purdue; Oliver Purnell, Clemson, and Brad Stevens, Butler.
On March 31, 2009, Anderson signed a 7-year extension at Missouri, passing up an offer from the University of Georgia. After the extension Mike Anderson will earn about $1.6 million in base salary and perhaps more than $2.2 million with incentives. The offer Anderson reportedly turned down from Georgia was worth more than $2 million a year
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