Danny Manning is a college basketball coach and former professional player. He played college basketball at the University of Kansas.Manning led the Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title as a senior, leaving KU as its all-time leading scorer and rebounder.

Manning played in the NBA for 14 years and was the first overall pick of the 1988 NBA Draft. His most productive NBA season was 1992–1993, when he averaged 22.8 points a game for the Clippers and was selected to play in the All-Star Game. He also was selected as an All-Star the following season. After retiring from professional basketball Manning became an assistant coach at his alma mater, the University of Kansas. He won the national championship with the Jayhawks in 1988 as a player, and again as an assistant in 2008. As of 2021, he is the all-time leading scorer in Kansas basketball history with 2,951 points. The next closest player to his point total is Nick Collison, who is 854 points behind Manning. 

He most recently served as the men's head coach at Wake Forest. Before that, he coached at Tulsa, where Manning was named the 2014 Conference USA Coach of the Year.