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Stephen Todd "Steve" Alford is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team.
Alford led Indiana University to a national championship in the 1987 NCAA tournament, when Keith Smart hit the winning jump shot against Syracuse. At Indiana, he earned first team All-Big Ten honors three times, and became Indiana's all-time leading scorer at the time.
He played four years in the NBA, for the Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors. After retiring as a player in 1991, he became a collegiate basketball coach. He has coached at Manchester University, Southwest Missouri State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of New Mexico.
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