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Winona State’s most decorated coach died Monday.

Former WSU men’s basketball coach Mike Leaf died Monday at the age of 58, four years after resigning.

Leaf, born June 7, 1961, won a school-record 382 games and led the Warriors to a pair of NCAA Division II National Championships.

After 28 years with the program — 17 as head coach — he abruptly resigned in June 2015 after being accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a player.

“Mike’s passion was coaching and teaching,” Leaf’s obituary on the Fawcett Junker Funeral Home website reads. “His gift was bringing people together and bond, as family or a team. Mike welcomed everyone in his path.”

Leaf’s funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Fawcett Junker Funeral Home in Winona, with visitation beginning at 11:30 p.m.

The coach led the Warriors to national championships in 2006 and 2008 and finished as national runners-up in 2007. WSU defeated Virginia Union 73-61 to win its first national title in 2006 and defeated Augusta State 87-76 to win its second in 2008.