• 1984 GPAC Coach of the Year
• 1989 GPAC Coach of the Year
• 1989 CIAU Coach of the Year
The sixth head coach in program history, Ken Murray guided the University of Regina's men's basketball team for a span of seven seasons from 1982 until 1989.
Murray took over a Cougar program in 1982 that had won just one game over the previous four seasons, but that would soon change. The 1986-87 season saw the Cougars go 9-7 to produce the first winning league record in team history and in 1989 the team qualified for the CIAU Championship for the first time. The Cougars earned the No. 6 seed in the national tournament and upset No. 3-seeded Prince Edward Island in the quarterfinals before bowing out to Victoria in the semifinals.
Murray's breakthrough moment was successfully recruiting Chris Biegler back to play for his hometown team after the star forward started out his post-secondary career up the road at the University of Saskatchewan. Biegler was named a GPAC first-team all-star in all four seasons at the U of R and earned the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the national player of the year in 1987. Led by Biegler's accolades, six of Murray's players earned a total of 13 GPAC all-star awards over his tenure with the Cougars. The team also boasted four all-rookie designations, including Brian Livingston earning shared GPAC Rookie of the Year honours in Murray's final season at the U of R.
Murray finished with a total of 39 regular season wins and six postseason victories. Half of those playoff wins came in 1989, as the Cougars defeated Winnipeg in the GPAC semifinal for their first ever win in a best-of-three series before the victory over UPEI in the opening round of the CIAU tournament.
