Scott Nagy
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"Scott Nagy" is an American college basketball coach and the current South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball/South Dakota State Jackrabbits head men's basketball coach. He has served as head coach at South Dakota State since 1995.

Born in Abilene, Texas,, South Dakota State University, released June 5, 2007 Nagy attended St. Matthews grade school in Champaign, Illinois and Champaign Centennial high school, which he graduated from in 1984. His father is Dick Nagy, who was a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of Illinois assistant basketball coach under Lou Henson.

Nagy played basketball collegiately at Delta State University, where he currently holds school records for most career games played and most assists in a career (549), season (234) and game (15).

After graduation, Nagy became a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of Illinois for two seasons before taking a full-time assistant's job at South Dakota State, which he held for three years. After two seasons as an assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Nagy returned to South Dakota State to take over as head coach in May 1995.

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I don't necessarily like the position we're in, but we're going to do what we can do to win basketball games. No matter how...we're going to finish the season with class. We're going to play our tails off, and we're not going to let our guys quit.

We had no business even being in the games with Cal State Fullerton or San Diego State. Our kids just did a great job of competing, fighting and not quitting under tough circumstances.

There's no way I expected Chris to go in there and grab five rebounds in three minutes in the first half. He just goes in there and knocks people around....He's a horse, and he's excited to play.

Andy hit big free throws. It isn't like we won the national championship, but for us any win right now is a good win with everything that is going on.

Obviously, it's been a very, very difficult time.

I think the kids who are left are playing hard and have been through a lot. We've had to coach hard, think through things, get guys the ball at the right time. I think these two years will not only make me, but our entire staff, better coaches.

He just didn't have a choice. If we were going to win games and score points at all, he had to play.

That's the best we've done all year.