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Zac Claus
Current position
Title	Head Coach
Team	Western Colorado Mountaineers
Conference	RMAC
Biographical details
Born	November 1974 (age 49–50); Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Playing career
1993–1994	Creighton
1996–1998	Eastern Washington
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1998–1999	Nebraska Wesleyan (JV/assistant)
1999–2000	Austin College (assistant)
2000–2002	Portland State (assistant)
2002–2005	Sacramento State (assistant)
2005–2015	Nevada (assistant)
2015–2019	Idaho (assistant)
2019–2023	Idaho
2023–present	Western Colorado
Head coaching record
Overall	28–89 (.239)

Zachary Arthur Claus (born November 1974) is an American basketball coach who was most recently head coach of the Idaho Vandals men's basketball team.

Playing career

Claus played college basketball at both Creighton and Eastern Washington.^[1] He also spent a year at Nebraska, but did not appear in any games for the team.^[2]

Coaching career

After his playing career, Claus began coaching first at then-NAIA Nebraska Wesleyan as an assistant coach and junior varsity head coach. He moved on to Austin College before two assistant coaching stops in Division I at Portland State and Sacramento State.^[3] In 2005, Claus joined Mark Fox's staff at Nevada, where he'd stay for the next 10 seasons under both Fox and David Carter. In that span, the Wolf Pack captured three-straight WAC regular-season titles and made three appearances in the NCAA tournament.^[4]

After Carter's firing from Nevada, Claus joined Don Verlin's staff at Idaho. Verlin was placed on administrative leave and subsequently fired from Idaho after the school concluded he had committed NCAA violations, and the school named Claus the interim head coach in June 2019.^[5]^[6] On February 25, 2020, Idaho lifted the interim tag and gave Claus the full-time job.^[7]^[8]

Claus was fired on February 27, 2023, after Idaho finished the regular season 10–21.^[9] Claus had an overall 28–88 record in four seasons.^[10]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Idaho Vandals (Big Sky Conference) (2019–2023)
2019–20	Idaho	8–24	4–16	11th
2020–21	Idaho	1–21	1–17	11th
2021–22	Idaho	9–22	6–14	T–8th
2022–23	Idaho	10–21	4–14	10th
Idaho:		28–88 (.241)	15–61 (.197)
Total:		28–88 (.241)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion