the team, Kundla chose to stay in Minnesota and resigned from the Lakers position to coach his alma mater, the University of Minnesota. While coaching he also taught physical education at the university. He was the first Gophers coach to give scholarships to African-American players, resulting in him receiving hate mail. Kundla stayed with the Gophers for nine years before retiring from coaching after the 1967–68 season with a record of 110-105. His Gophers only finished as high as third in the Big Ten five times, and never reached the postseason. After retiring from coaching, Kundla remained a physical education professor until retiring from the U of M in 1981. Honors In 1996, Kundla was voted as one of the 10 greatest coaches in the history of the NBA. In 11 years of coaching in the BAA/NBA, he had a record of 423–302 in the regular season and 60–35 in the playoffs. Kundla's 1947–48 NBL championship season team went 43–17 during the regular season with 14 more wins in the post-season, but does not count under official NBA records. Kundla was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995, after being lamented as "all but forgotten" in a 1992 USA Today column. Kundla was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. After the Los Angeles Lakers won their 2002 championship, Kundla was awarded a championship ring along with other living Minneapolis Lakers players at a ceremony at the Staples Center. Personal life Kundla met his wife, Marie, while they were undergraduates; the two raised six children. After resigning from the Lakers, he stayed close with Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen, often meeting his former players for breakfast. Kundla is the grandfather of former Michigan State Spartans men's basketball player, Isaiah Dahlman, and former Wofford Terriers men's basketball player, Noah Dahlman, who was named the Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2009–10. His wife died in 2007; the following year he moved into the Main Street Lodge Assisted Living Home in Minneapolis and continued to watch and follow the NBA. Kundla turned 100 in July 2016 and died on July 23, 2017, twenty days after his 101st birthday. Head coaching record NBL |- ! style="background:#FDE910;" | style="text-align:left;"|Minneapolis | style="text-align:left;"|1947-48 |60||43||17||.717|| style="text-align:center;"| 1st in Western ||10||8||2||.800 | style="text-align:center;"|Won NBL championship NBA |- ! style="background:#FDE910;" | style="text-align:left;"|Minneapolis | style="text-align:left;"| |60||44||16||.733|| style="text-align:center;"| 2nd in Western ||10||8||2||.800