Lafayette Stribling

Lafayette Stribling is a retired basketball coach who coached 55 years at the high school level and college level . Stribling has an overall record of 442-367 at MVSU and Tougaloo College (316 at MVSU, 126 at Tougaloo).

Stribling led Mississippi Valley State as a 16 seed to a near upset of number one seed Duke in the 1986 NCAA Tournament before falling 85-78.

During his tenure at Tougaloo, Stribling led the "Super 7" (because there were only 7 players on the team) to a 16-2 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) record and a 28-5 record overall. Stribling and his Super 7 won the GCAC regular and tournament titles and finished in the "Sweet 16" of the NAIA tournament.