With THREE National Collegiate Championships, TWO International Basketball Championships, NINE National Tournament appearances, SIX Collegiate Final Fours, SEVEN Collegiate Conference Championships, and 607 career head coaching victories, Coach Eddie Andrist has seen just about everything possible on the hardwood.
With an exciting brand of pressing, a real success story for Coach Eddie Andrist and his staff members during the past 400 seasons of coaching has not only been the championships won, but also with his most recent tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, has been the way his teams high intensity game play helped return Blue Devil fans to Johnson Fieldhouse. In his time at Stout, the Blue Devils were ranked in the Top 15 in attendance in NCAA Division III.
Eddie Andrist is also a UW Stout alumnus. As a student assistant under head coach Dwain Mintz, the Blue Devils won the Wisconsin State University Conference (WSUC) championship. Upon graduation, Coach Andrist left for the high school ranks, where he served as head coach for the LaFarge Wildcats, Stanley Boyd Orioles, and the Stockbridge Indians. He returned to Stout in 1984, serving as top assistant for three seasons (1984-87).
In 1989, Coach Andrist got his first collegiate head coaching job at Mount Senario College and his success speaks volumes. Under Coach Andrist, the Fighting Saints won seven UMAC championships and national collegiate titles in 1991, 1994, and 1996. In 11 seasons, Andrist won 250 games, averaging almost 23 victories per season.
Andrist not only has experience on the high school and college levels, but also on the international scene. He spent the spring and summers of 2000 and 2007 overseas, coaching the Qatar National men’s team, where his undersized team from a tiny country on the Arabian Peninsula won its first-ever Asian and Gulf Countries Championship. Qatar upset favorite China twice in the Asian Games and defeated favorite Saudi Arabia in the Gulf Championship.
2021 Hall of Fame Inductee
By The Numbers:
| 1146 | Total Games as Head Coach |
| 607 | Head Coaching Victories |
| 461 | Collegiate Victories |
| 108 | High School Victories |
| 44 | Total Coaching Years |
| 39 | Head Coaching Years |
| 35 | International Victories |
| 28 | Winning Seasons |
| 10 | High School Years Coaching |
| 9 | National Tournament Appearances |
| 7 | Conference Championships |
| 6 | National Collegiate Final Fours |
| 3 | National College Championships |
| 2 | International Championships |
COACH EDDIE ANDRIST 