Steve Hall is in his fourth season as an assistant coach on the Youngstown State men's basketball staff.
In 2013-14, Hall helped the Penguins to 15 victories, which marked the first time since the mid-1980's the program won at least 15 games in three straight seasons.
He also worked with Kendrick Perry, who became one of the program's and Horizon League's best players of all-time.
Perry delivered on the of the most sensation individual seasons in program history. He became the first Youngstown State player to earn Horizon League First-Team honors in three straight seasons, and led the league in scoring for the second time in three years.
A Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America Second-Team choice, Perry scored 682 points in 2013-14 and became the program's Division I leading scorer with 1,991 career points. He also set the YSU and Horizon League career steals records with 246.
In 2012-13, the Penguins recorded one of the most successful campaigns in the program’s Division I history. Youngstown State finished with an 18-16 record, its best mark since 2000-01. The Penguins also posted back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1983-84 and 1984-85, signifying that the program continues to be on the rise. YSU was also 12-5 at home this past season for its most victories at Beeghly Center since 1984-85.
The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) was the Penguins’ first postseason tournament since moving to Division I in 1981-82. YSU put up its best offensive effort of the season in the opening round at Beeghly Center, draining a school-record 18 3-pointers and posting a season-high 99 points in a 99-87 victory over future Horizon League member Oakland. YSU also beat Loyola just before the buzzer in the Horizon League Tournament at home in one of the top moments in any YSU sport during the year.
Hall was named one of the top 30 mid-major assistant coaches in the nation by Hoop Scoop Magazine.
During his last two seasons at Duquesne, Hall served as the team's recruiting coordinator and was named one of the top 75 assistant coaches in the nation by Hoopscoop Magazine in 2011-12.
Hall, one of the most highly decorated high school coaches in the Detroit area in the 2000s, helped Duquesne to three postseason tournaments, including the NIT in 2008-09, the first round of the CBI in 2009-10 and the quarterfinals of the CBI in 2010-11.
In 2011-12, Hall mentored All-Atlantic-10 Third-Team and All-Defensive Team selection T.J. McConnell. McConnell averaged 11.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game.
The Detroit, Mich., native, who won Class D state titles at Detroit Rogers in 2003, 2004 and 2005, came to Duquesne after leading Detroit Northwestern to its first Detroit Public School League (PSL) championship since 1978 in 2008.
Hall was also named coach of the year by both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press in 2008. He was also named Coach of the Year by the Detroit News in 2002 and 2005 and Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM) Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004.
In addition, he was the 2002 Detroit Public School League Coach of the Year. He is one of the youngest members of the BCAM exclusive 200-win club. While coaching in the high school ranks, Hall put his knowledge of Great Lakes State basketball to work by serving as the state of Michigan editor for Hoop Scoop from 2005-08.
Hall, who has worked as a staff coach at Five-Star Camps at Robert Morris University in suburban Pittsburgh, was a standout player for Detroit's Cass Tech in the late 1980s where he set school scoring records for points in a career and points in a season.
A consensus all-state player, he was named the Detroit High School Player of the Year by both the Detroit Free Press and Detroit Public School League Coaches Association in leading the state of Michigan in scoring with a 30.7 ppg. scoring average in 1988.
The eighth-place finisher in the voting for Michigan's Mr. Basketball, Hall began his collegiate playing career at the University of Washington (1989 and 1990) where he was an honorable-mention PAC-10 All-Freshman pick for head coach Andy Russo.
A two-year starter for the Huskies, Hall was the team's second-leading assist man as a sophomore under Lynn Nance. He then transferred to Virginia Tech where he was a two-year starter (1992 and 1993) and 1993 team co-captain under Bill Foster. He led the Hokies in 3-pointers made, 3-point percentage and 3-pointers in a game as a junior.
Hall averaged 26.7 points per game during a three-year professional career in Brazil, the Philippines, Australia and Switzerland from 1994-96 before beginning his teaching and coaching career in Detroit in 1996.
Hall completed his undergraduate degree in communication and marketing at Virginia Tech in 1993. He added a master's degree in sports administration from Wayne State in 1998.
At Detroit Cass Tech High School, Hall set the school records for most points in a career and in a single-season.
