Hall of Fame
Billy Key
Key, now retired, enjoyed a long and distinguished career in basketball. He played two seasons for the Mules (1946-47 and 1947-48) under Earl Keth. The majority of his coaching tenure was spent as head coach at Missouri-Rolla, where he coached from 1964 through 1987. He also served as athletics director at Missouri-Rolla from 1968 through 1990. In his overall coaching career at the high school and college level, he recorded 535 victories. He served as president of the National Assocation of Basketball Coaches during the 1987-88 season. In 1988 he was one of the original inductees into the Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame and in 1989 he was a recipient of Central Missouri State's distinguished alumni award. After retiring in 1990, he came out of retirement to serve as assistant coach for the Mules in the 1991-92 season under interim head coach Jerry Hughes.
