Hall of Fame
Kenya Crandell was a basketball player who finished his career as No. 1 in career assists with 525, which is still a school record. When he graduated, he also had scored 1,119 points, among the Top 10 at the time and currently 28th.
His leadership as point guard was instrumental in the success of teams that compiled records of 20-6, 18-9, 19-8 and 24-9. A member of several Loper teams that were playing as an Division II independent, he was an All-RMAC (Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) selection in 1996.
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Crandell, now an assistant coach at Texas-Rio Grande Valley, earned a master's degree from UNK in 1999. He previously was an assistant at UNK, Montana State, Nebraska-Omaha, Southern Utah, Sacramento State and Oregon.
