daniel ricardo manning (born may 17, 1966) is an american college basketball coach and retired nba player. he is the current men's head coach at wake forest. manning played high school basketball at lawrence high school in lawrence, kansas, college basketball at the university of kansas, and played in the nba for 14 years. after he retired from professional basketball, manning became an assistant coach at the university of kansas. he won the national championship with the jayhawks in 1988 as a player. he won it again as an assistant in 2008. 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.