Men's Basketball
Nov 3 (Mon)
TBD
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- bobby_lutz@ncsu.edu
- Phone:
- (919) 515-2101
In April of 2016, former men's basketball associate head coach Bobby Lutz was named Special Assistant to the Deputy Athletic Director for External Operations.
Lutz joined NC State head coach Mark Gottfried's initial staff in 2011-12, and served five seasons on the Wolfpack bench.
With Lutz on staff at NC State, the Wolfpack has made four straight NCAA tourney appearances. Lutz has helped the Wolfpack to a pair of Sweet 16 runs, in 2012 and 2015. The Wolfpack made the NCAA Second Round in 2013 and 2014. In four seasons with Lutz on the bench with Gottfried, NC State has won 92 games, the program's highest total since 1972-76.
For his career, Lutz has coached in 11 different NCAA Tournaments, five NITs and six NAIA Tournaments.
Lutz came to NC State after a season on the staff at Iowa State, where he helped the Cyclones earn their highest win total since 2005-06. Prior to his stint in Ames, Lutz served as the head coach at Charlotte from 1999-2010, where he led his alma mater to eight postseason appearances (five NCAA, three NIT) in his 12 years at the helm. He is the winningest coach in 49er history, posting a record of 218-158 and is the only coach in school history to make back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances twice in his career.
A native of Catawba, N.C., Lutz led Charlotte to a school-record five 20-win seasons and averaged more than 18 wins a year and won three Conference USA titles (1999, 2001, 2004) in his tenure with the 49ers. He had four top 20 national recruiting classes and tutored 10 players who earned first team all-conference honors. Five times in his career a Lutz-coached 49er squad knocked off a top-10 opponent, including a win over No. 3 Cincinnati in 1999. Five of the eight wins over top-10-ranked opponents in Charlotte's history came under Lutz's watch.
In 2005, Lutz was a finalist for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award.
Prior to being named head coach, Lutz was an assistant coach at Charlotte for three seasons (1996-98) assisting Jeff Mullins for one and working Mullins' successor, Melvin Watkins, for two years. The 49ers compiled a record of 56-35 and went to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments when Lutz was an assistant for Watkins.
Prior to his stint at Charlotte, Lutz molded Pfeiffer, an NAIA school in Misenheimer, N.C., into a national power as head coach from 1986-95. He posted a 181-91 record and qualified for six straight NAIA Tournament berths, including three Final Four appearances. His teams had a .785 winning percentage (153-42) from 1990-95 and he developed 10 NAIA All-Americans.
During his 49ers tenure, he also was tabbed as the 2005 C-USA Coach of the Year by ESPN.com and CollegeInsider.com, and was named 1999 Conference USA Coach of the Year by the Birmingham News.
Lutz graduated with High Honors from UNC Charlotte in 1980 with a degree in economics and psychology and a 3.82 GPA. He earned three other degrees: Lenoir-Rhyne, 1981 (A.B. Secondary Education); Winthrop, 1985 (M.A.T. Secondary Social Studies); Clemson, 1986 (M.A. Education - Administration & Supervision).
Lutz has been extremely active in off-the-court endeavors and goodwill campaigns in his successful career. He is currently on the board of directors of the Eastern North Carolina National Alzheimer's Association. He has served as the honorary chair of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light up the Night Campaign as well as the Coaches' Curing Kids' Cancer organization. In 2002, he was named the Carolinas' Father of the Year by the National Father's Day Council.
He is a member of Pfeiffer's Athletics Hall of Fame.
Lutz and his wife, Janet, have two daughters: Natalie and Christine.
