Bob Daniels (basketball)

Robert Eugene Daniels (July 20, 1935 – March 18, 2022) was an American basketball player and coach.

Career
Collegiately he played basketball and baseball for Western Kentucky University under Hall of Fame coach Edgar Diddle. In 1957 he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals. He started assistant coaching under Coach Guy R. Strong at Kentucky Wesleyan College and was a part of the 1965–66 National Championship team, the first of Kentucky Wesleyan's eight National Championships. During the late 1960s and early-1970s he coached the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers for five seasons, all five seasons he took the team to the Division II NCAA Tournament and won the second and third National Championship for the college. After Kentucky Wesleyan he was the Thundering Herd coach beginning in the 1972–73 season for the NIT appearance.

Daniels died in Versailles, Kentucky, on March 18, 2022, at the age of 86.