| Lynn Archibald | |
| Birth Date: | 27 September 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Logan, Utah, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Provo, Utah, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Fresno State, 1968 |
| Player Years1: | (one year) |
| Player Team1: | Utah State |
| Player Years2: | (one year) |
| Player Team2: | El Camino JC |
| Coach Years1: | 1970–1972 |
| Coach Team1: | Long Beach State (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 1972–1973 |
| Coach Team2: | Cal Poly (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 1974–1976 |
| Coach Team3: | UNLV (assistant)) |
| Coach Years4: | 1976–1977 |
| Coach Team4: | USC (assistant) |
| Coach Years5: | 1977–1982 |
| Coach Team5: | Idaho State |
| Coach Years6: | 1982–1983 |
| Coach Team6: | Utah (assistant) |
| Coach Years7: | 1983–1989 |
| Coach Team7: | Utah |
| Coach Years8: | 1989–1994 |
| Coach Team8: | Arizona State (assistant) |
| Coach Years9: | 1994–1996 |
| Coach Team9: | Brigham Young (assistant) |
Lynn J. Archibald (September 27, 1944 – May 28, 1997) was an American college basketball coach. He served as head basketball coach at Idaho State University and the University of Utah.[1] [2]
Born in Logan, Utah, Archibald moved to Oregon and California with his family and graduated from Torrance High School in Torrance, California. He played college basketball at Utah State in Logan as a freshman and at El Camino College as a sophomore; he completed his bachelor's degree at Fresno State.[3]
Archibald was an assistant coach under Jerry Tarkanian at Long Beach State and UNLV, and also had brief stints at and As a head coach, he worked at Idaho State in Pocatello for five seasons and then was an assistant at Utah in Salt Lake City for a season. When Jerry Pimm departed for UC Santa Barbara, Archibald was promoted and led the Utes for six years with a
Succeeded by Rick Majerus at Utah, Archibald was an assistant at Arizona State University then at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and later, the director of basketball operations.[4] After a long battle with prostate cancer, Archibald died at his Provo home at age 52
While at Idaho State in 1979, Archibald mused that the peculiar King Spud Trophy for the intrastate series with Idaho should be awarded to the loser: "It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. The only good thing that happened last week was losing it."[5]
His son Beau, who played college basketball at Washington State,[4] and later, at Connecticut, is also a basketball coach.[6]