High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ben Jacobson has been the head men's basketball coach at the University of Northern Iowa since 2006. Previously an assistant at North Dakota, North Dakota State, and Northern Iowa, he took over the Panthers head coaching job after Greg McDermott left to coach at Iowa State University. Jacobson's biggest coaching accomplishment was in 2009-10, when the Panthers made a run into the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament highlighted by an upset of top national seed Kansas. ESPN.com columnist Pat Forde called the Panthers' win "the biggest tourney upset in years," and called the clinching shot by Panthers guard Ali Farokhmanesh "the greatest early-round shot in NCAA tournament history." Before the season, Jacobson was seventh in pay among the 10 men's head coaches in the Missouri Valley Conference. While he was not seeking to leave UNI, and both he and the UNI athletic administration agreed that bringing him closer to the middle of the league would be acceptable, the athletic department was strapped for cash.

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