Rob Jeter Inks Deal To Be New UWM's Men's Basketball Coach

April 11, 2005

MILWAUKEE - Rob Jeter is the new head men's basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Jeter signed a contract with UWM late Thursday night. He will be formally introduced at a press conference Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Union Ballroom East on the UWM campus.

The new head coach returns to UWM after serving for the last four years as an assistant coach and associate head coach at the University of Wisconsin. He previously served as an assistant at both UWM and Marquette after working and playing at UW-Platteville.

Jeter is the 20th head coach in UWM basketball history.

Jeter has worked under Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan for 10 of his 11 years as an assistant coach, spending one year under Mike Deane at Marquette. At Wisconsin, Jeter has served as the Badgers' lead recruiter while also coordinating Wisconsin's scouting and academic efforts.

In four seasons at Wisconsin, Jeter helped the Badgers to remarkable success. They have won two regular season Big Ten championships and a Big Ten Tournament title. UW also made four NCAA Tournament appearances, including berths in the Sweet 16 (2003) and the Elite Eight (2005). Plus, Wisconsin has averaged nearly 23 wins per season under Ryan and Jeter and posted a school-record 38-game home court winning streak.

Jeter served on Ryan's staff for two seasons at UWM, recruiting current Panthers Adrian Tigert and Chris Hill while helping to lay the foundation for success on the basketball court. Under Ryan and Jeter, UWM recorded its first two plus-.500 seasons since the early 1990's while increasing attendance nearly 300 percent.

He served as an assistant to Mike Deane at Marquette during the 1998-99 season. Jeter was an assistant to Ryan at UW-Platteville from 1994-98, helping guide the Pioneers to a 108-6 overall record, two NCAA Division III titles and four conference championships. In addition to his coaching duties at UW-Platteville, Jeter coordinated the program's academic, recruiting and scouting efforts, and directed the Bo Ryan Basketball Camps. He also served as an associate admissions director at UW-Platteville.

Jeter's collegiate basketball career started as a player for Ryan at Platteville, where he captained the Pioneers to the 1991 NCAA Division III title and was named to the `91 All-Final Four team. A two-time All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection and two-time All-Midwest Region choice, Jeter still holds UW-Platteville records for career field goal percentage (.601) and consecutive starts (89). Jeter was named to the Wisconsin State University honor roll three times. He then played professionally for the Olivias Futebol Clube in Portugal in 1992-93 and led the Portuguese national league in scoring that season.

A 1991 graduate of UW-Platteville, Jeter has a bachelor's degree in business administration and received a master's degree in adult education in December of 2001.