The Kahoks went 30–1 his junior season and lost to De La Salle in the first round of the Illinois state tournament, 67–66.

His first season, the Boilermakers finished with a 27–8 record under coach Lee Rose and reached the NCAA Final Four.

From 1982 to 1988, Purdue amassed a 140–44 record, winning three Big Ten Championships (two shared and one outright) and reaching the NCAA Tournament all six years.

The highlight was a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1988, when the Boilermakers finished 29–4 and earned a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament.

In the summer of 1988, Stallings was hired by Roy Williams, who had taken over at Kansas after Larry Brown's surprising NCAA Tournament championship.

Freije earned third-team All-SEC honors, and Brian Thornton became the sixth Commodore to be named to the SEC All-Freshman team.

In the second round, the Commodores trailed third-seeded North Carolina State 67–56 with 3:45 to play, but Freije keyed a 19–6 Vanderbilt run to end the game for a 75–73 win.

Freije (18.4 ppg, 5.4 rpg) was named first-team All-SEC and finished as Vanderbilt's leading all-time scorer (1,891 points).

In a down year for the SEC, the Commodores went 19–12 (8–8 in conference play) but did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament or the NIT at the season's end.

The 2009–10 season represented a bounceback for the Commodores, who rattled off 10 straight victories after a 6–3 start and went on to post a 12–4 record in SEC play, the best-ever under Stallings.

The 2011–12 team was widely considered Vanderbilt's strongest under Stallings, with his typical makeup of a strong outside shooting presence and a powerful post man inside.

Vanderbilt advanced to its first SEC Tournament final since 1951, defeating #1 and eventual national champion Kentucky by a score of 71–64.

With a victory over Lipscomb on November 15, 2013, Stallings passed Roy Skinner as the winningest coach in Vanderbilt history.

[10][11] On March 27, 2016, amid a backlash from fans, it was announced that Stallings was hired as head basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh.

The campaign featured an 8-game losing streak, including a lopsided 55 point loss to the Louisville Cardinals where Kevin Stallings was ejected after receiving 2 technical fouls.

Prior to the regular season finale, Kevin Stallings dismissed freshman guard, Justice Kithcart, for conduct detrimental to the team.

Less than a week after the end of the season, Crisshawn Clark and Corey Manigault announced they would be transferring, leaving no remaining players from the 2016 recruiting class.

[14] He was issued a three year show-cause penalty by the NCAA on February 20, 2020, for exceeding the number of permissible coaches on his staff and lying to Pitt officials about it.

The show-cause penalty ran until February 19, 2023; if Stallings got another coaching job during this time, he would have been suspended for the first 30 percent of the first season of his return.

Conference tournament champion His son, Jacob Stallings, plays catcher in Major League Baseball for the Colorado Rockies.