Ali Farokhmanesh

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Ali Farokhmanesh
AliFarokhmanesh2011.jpg
Ali Farokhmanesh in 2011
Colorado State Rams
PositionAssistant coach
League Mountain West Conference
Personal information
Born (1988-04-16) April 16, 1988 (age 35)
Pullman, Washington
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school Iowa City West
(Iowa City, Iowa)
College
NBA draft 2010: undrafted
Playing career2010–2014
Position Shooting guard / point guard
Number5
Coaching career2017–present
Career history
As player:
2010–2011 SAM Massagno
2011–2013 WBC Raiffeisen Wels
2013–2014 SPM Shoeters Den Bosch
As coach:
2014–2016 Nebraska (GA)
2016–2017Nebraska (Dir. of Player Development)
2017–2018 Drake (assistant)
2018–present Colorado State (assistant)
Career highlights and awards

Ali Fredrick Farokhmanesh (born April 16, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player and current Colorado State Rams men's basketball assistant coach.

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College career

Farokhmanesh gained nationwide fame in the 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament as a member of the Northern Iowa Panthers men's basketball team, when he hit a crucial three-point shot to help UNI upset top-overall seed Kansas in the second round. [1]

Farokhmanesh played a total of 69 college games in two years and started all of them. [2] His heroics in 2010, which came two days after hitting the game-winning three-point shot against UNLV in the first round, led to an appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated . [3]

Pro career

After going undrafted in the 2010 NBA draft, Farokhmanesh signed a deal to play for SAM Massagno Basket, an LNB Division A team based in Massagno, Switzerland. [4] [5]

In 2011, Farokhmanesh signed with the Austrian team WBC Raiffeisen Wels. His contract was renewed in June 2012. [6] Farokhmanesh averaged 13.7 points per game in Austria.

On August 14, 2013, Farokhmanesh signed with SPM Shoeters Den Bosch in the Netherlands. [7] In April, Farokhmanesh won the DBL Sixth Man of the Year award. [8]

Coaching career

In 2014, Farokhmanesh stopped playing professionally, becoming a graduate assistant at Nebraska. [9] In 2016, head coach Tim Miles promoted him to director of player relations and development. [10]

On April 28, 2017, Farokhmanesh joined the Drake men's basketball program as an assistant coach for Niko Medved. [11] On March 26, 2018, he followed Medved to become his assistant at Colorado State University. [12]

Honors

Flag of the Netherlands.svg SPM Shoeters Den Bosch

Statistics

Legend
  GPGames played MPG Minutes per game FG%  Field goal percentage
 3P%  3-point field goal percentage FT%  Free throw percentage RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game BPG  Blocks per game
 PPG Points per game Bold Career high  Led the league

Regular season

YearTeamLeagueGPMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2010–11 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg SAM Massagno Basket LNBA 3033.9.543.480.8652.23.12.30.019.5
2011–12 Flag of Austria.svg WBC Raiffeisen Wels ÖBL 3629.3.497.497.7611.93.40.80.013.6
2012–13 Flag of Austria.svg WBC Raiffeisen Wels ÖBL 3234.7.505.415.8283.53.91.30.013.7
2013–14 Flag of the Netherlands.svg SPM Shoeters Den Bosch DBL 3526.0.506.376.8181.62.01.00.09.8

Early life

Farokhmanesh was born in Butler, MO, where he attended high school at Butler R-V for two years before moving to Iowa and attending West High School in Iowa City, Iowa. He then attended junior college at Indian Hills Community College and Kirkwood Community College before transferring to the University of Northern Iowa.

Personal life

Farokhmanesh is of European and Iranian descent. His father, Mashallah, was born in Borujerd and was a member of the Iranian men's national volleyball team, before immigrating to the United States in 1977, where he played for professional teams and eventually became a coach. [13]

Mashallah married Ali's mother, Cindy Fredrick, who became the head coach for the women's volleyball team at the University of Iowa in 2004. Before moving to Iowa, Fredrick was the head coach of the Washington State University's women's volleyball team for 15 years, where she had a record of 278 wins and 192 losses. Cindy and her husband briefly coached at Luther College. [14] As of 2014, Cindy and Mashallah coached the UNLV women's volleyball team as head coach and assistant coach, respectively. [15]

In 2014, Farokhmanesh married the former Mallory Husz. They have four children.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA tournament and all NCAA-sponsored spring sports and also led to most U.S. universities going to online-only instruction, the Farokhmanesh family re-created his famous NCAA tournament shot in an empty Moby Arena on the 10th anniversary of the UNI–Kansas game. The shot was captured for a web video that Colorado State posted on its official athletics Twitter account. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ Caldwell, Dave (March 20, 2010). "Northern Iowa Coolly Upsets No. 1 Seed Kansas". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Ali Farokhmanesh College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
  3. ↑ "UNI on cover of Sports Illustrated". KWWL.com. March 23, 2010. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Farokhmanesh, Koch sign pro basketball contracts". PantherMania.net. August 6, 2010. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Presentation of Ali Farokhmanesh". SAM Massagno Basket.
  6. ↑ "Farokhmanesh stays put, renews contract in Wels". USA Today. June 6, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Alli Farokhmanesh to SPM Shoeters" (in Dutch). Basketball Plus. August 14, 2013. Archived from the original on August 17, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Meeste seizoensprijzen naar GasTerra Flames". iBasketball (in Dutch). April 22, 2014. Archived from the original on April 22, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  9. ↑ Nebraska hires ex-March Madness star Ali Farokhmanesh as assistant
  10. ↑ "Farokhmanesh Named Director of Player Relations and Development".
  11. ↑ "Farokhmanesh Joins Drake Men's Basketball Coaching Staff".
  12. ↑ "Farokhmanesh, Blount Named Assistant Men's Basketball Coaches". csurams.com. March 26, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Dr. Mashallah Farokhmanesh". WSUCougars.com. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
  14. ↑ "Cindy Fredrick". HawkeyeSports.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
  15. ↑ Cindy Fredrick & Mashallah Farokhmanesh, UNLVRebels.com, accessed March 20, 2014.
  16. ↑ Bromberg, Nick (March 20, 2020). "On 10-year anniversary of his famous NCAA tournament shot vs. Kansas, Ali Farokhmanesh and family adorably re-enact play". Yahoo Sports . Retrieved March 21, 2020.
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