University of Missouri, St. Louis Men's Basketball

Sundvold enters his fourth year as head men's basketball coach at UMSL during the 2016-17 season.   A veteran coach with more than 30 years of experience as both a head coach and assistant coach, Sundvold owns a career record of 172-147 (.539) in 10 years as a collegiate head coach.   In three years at UMSL, he is 47-39 (.546), which includes a 19-11 record during the 2014-15 season. The Tritons began the season 8-0 for the first time in program history and secured the programs fifth straight winning season for the first time in program history. In his first season with the Tritons, Sundvold directed UMSL to a 16-12 record, their fourth straight winning season. The Tritons went 9-9 in the GLVC, qualifying for the GLVC Tournament, where UMSL hosted its first-ever GLVC Tournament game, garnering a 103-79 win over Missouri S&T. Sundvold came to UMSL after one year at Eastern Illinois University under Jay Spoonhour. Sundvold broke into the college coaching ranks as an assistant coach under Norm Stewart at Missouri. From 1978-1991 he helped the Tigers make nine NCAA Tournament appearances while winning six Big Eight Conference Championships and 286 total games. Sundvold then moved on to coach one season at Missouri State (formerly Southwest Missouri State) for Charlie Spoonhour, as the Bears won the 1992 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Following his one season at Missouri State, Sundvold took over as head coach at Central Missouri State. His Mules teams posted 82 wins with trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament in each of his last three seasons. The 1995 squad was led by NCAA Division II Player of the Year Tyrone Latimer as Central Missouri State advanced to the Elite Eight. From Central Missouri State Sundvold was hired as the head coach at UMKC serving four years for the Kangaroos. The team posted a winning season in 2000 placing second in the Mid-Continent Conference while winning the school's first conference tournament game. UMKC was led by Michael Jackson, the 2000 Mid-Continent Conference Player of the Year. Sundvold returned to an assistant coach role in 2001 joining the staff at Iowa State. He was instrumental in recruiting three straight Top 20 classes as rated by Hoop Scoop Recruiting. The 2002 class was ranked top five in the nation. The Cyclones made back-to-back post-season NIT appearances in 2003 and 2004 advancing to the national semifinals in Madison Square Garden in 2004. In 2004 Sundvold returned to the head coaching chair as he was hired as the head coach/general manager of the Kansas City Knights of the ABA. The 2005 squad posted a 19-9 record reaching the ABA playoff quarterfinals. He returned to college game in 2008 as an assistant coach at Toledo. He was named the interim head coach in March of 2010 before entering private business for two years. In addition to his experience as a coach on the floor, Sundvold has also worked as a basketball color analyst for ESPN covering Big 12 Conference games along with regional broadcasts for the Missouri Valley Conference, Missouri and Kansas State. A 1977 graduate of South Dakota State, Sundvold was an All-North Central Conference selection as a player and an All-Academic selection. He earned a master's degree from Missouri. His younger brother Jon played on four Big Eight Championship teams at Missouri while he was an assistant coach. Jon later went on to play nine seasons in the NBA with Seattle, San Antonio and Miami. He and his wife Denise have four children: Robert, Ryne, Haley and Cameron.

Jones enters his 38th season as an assistant coach with the Missouri-St. Louis mens basketball team in 2016-17. His responsibilities include on the floor coaching and the teams conditioning program. Jones is a native of Memphis, Tenn., where he attended Manassas High School and Shelby State Community College. Jones completed his undergraduate work at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Mo., in 1978. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree, Jones served as a youth specialist at the Booneville Training Center for Boys before accepting a position as a health and physical education teacher at Normandy Junior High School in St. Louis, Mo., in 1979. Jones joined the Tritons staff as an assistant coach at that same time, and earned his masters degree in secondary education from Missouri-St. Louis in 1983. He was inducted into the UMSL Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, earning the Marty Hendin Distinguished Service Award, given to those individuals who have made exceptional contributions to UMSL Athletics. Jones and his wife, Jacqueline, have one son, C.J., a member of the Texas Tech track and field team.