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2 unusual facts about BYU Cougars men's basketball


BYU Cougars men's basketball

After Watts's retirement following the 1972 season, the program experienced five consecutive losing seasons from 1974 through 1978 before returning to the NCAA Tournament in 1979 behind Danny Ainge and coach Frank Arnold.

J. Willard Marriott

While serving as home to the BYU Cougars men's and women's college basketball teams, the center also hosts various cultural events and religious devotionals.


1920–21 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

Chuck Carney was elected to the "Illini Men's Basketball All-Century Team" in 2004.

1967–68 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

As sophomores, they would combine with returnees Dave Scholz, Randy Crews, future New York Knicks draft pick Mike Price, Alabama transfer Jodie Harrison, Dennis Pace and walk-on Les Busboom to form the best group Schmidt would ever coach.

1968–69 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

At the West Regional, played in Pauley Pavilion, the Bruins defeated New Mexico State 53–38 and Santa Clara 90–52.

1970–71 Phoenix Suns season

Goodrich, a native of Los Angeles and who played college ball at UCLA, was traded before the season back to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he had played before being acquired in the expansion draft of 1968.

Arthur Hill High School

NBA player Jason Richardson of the Philadelphia 76ers, winner of two NBA Slam Dunk titles, is an alumnus of Arthur Hill, as is former Drake University point guard Adam Emmenecker, who went from three-year walk-on to Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year in his final season in 2008.

Boston College Eagles men's basketball

The Boston College Eagles are a Division I college basketball program that represents Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States.

Brian Norwood

Norwood's son Gabe, is a former member of the George Mason University basketball team that advanced to the 2006 NCAA Final Four.

Carl Crawford

Crawford was offered scholarships to play basketball as a point guard at UCLA.

Craig Austrie

He played in college for the University of Connecticut and played briefly for the Springfield Armor in the NBA Development League.

Dave Fuller

Fuller attended Wake Forest University in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football, Demon Deacons basketball and Demon Deacons baseball teams.

Drake Bulldogs men's basketball

Under the guidance of Keno Davis, the 2007-08 season was one of the most storied in Drake history.

In 1951 Drake withdrew as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference, along with Bradley as a result of the lack of action taken by the Missouri Valley Conference against Oklahoma A&M in the Johnny Bright Incident.

FIU Panthers men's basketball

The "Sunblazers" men’s basketball team was also featured in a second season episode of Miami Vice entitled "The Fix".

Franjo Arapović

He then moved to Trapani in Italy, BC Žalgiris in Lithuania, KK Krka Telekom in Slovenia, Fenerbahçe S.K. in Turkey, Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem in Israel, again Žalgiris, and again Zrinjevac, Croatia osiguranje, Cibona.

Gangs in Memphis, Tennessee

In 2011, Sean Banks a Memphis Tigers men's basketball player, was arrested in New York as one of the James Bond Gang.

George Hendrick

His son, Brian, played college basketball for the California Golden Bears.

George Washington Colonials men's basketball

President Bill Clinton joined the Colonials at Charles E. Smith Center when John Calipari and the top-ranked Massachusetts Minutemen came to Washington.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball

In the 1990 tournament, the trio of Kenny Anderson, Dennis Scott, & Brian Oliver (nicknamed "Lethal Weapon 3") carried the Yellow Jackets all the way to the Final Four, where they lost to eventual champion UNLV in the national semi-finals.

Heartless Records

Heartless Records President Eric Lipscomb grew up with Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball Superstar Malcolm Delaney.

Heshimu Evans

Evans, a small forward from Evander Childs High School in The Bronx, went to Manhattan College, where he was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) rookie of the year in 1995.

Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

Holy Cross could have joined the newly founded Big East Conference in 1980, but college President Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., vetoed the move for academic reasons.

Isaiah Williams

His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.

Jack Trice Stadium

The Jacobson Building is the home of Cyclone athletics containing all sport and administrative offices except men's and women's basketball and volleyball.

Joker Phillips

He was also the third African-American head coach of a major sport at Kentucky; the first was Bernadette Maddox, who coached the women's basketball team from 1995 to 2003, and the second was Tubby Smith, who coached men's basketball from 1997 to 2007.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

KEJO

In addition to its regularly scheduled sports talk programs, KEJO airs select local high school football games plus Oregon State Beavers football, men's basketball, and baseball as part of the Beaver Sports Radio Network.

Kevin Grady

Kevin's brother, Kelvin Grady, was a point guard on the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team before transferring to the Michigan football team after the 2008–09 season.

Kevin Grevey

Grevey played college basketball at the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of legendary coach Adolph Rupp's last freshman class and played his three collegiate seasons (freshmen were not eligible to play varsity basketball at the time) under Rupp’s successor, Joe B. Hall.

Louis Orr

In his first year in the Big East Conference, Orr went 12–18, but was noted for playing Duke very close in the Maui Invitational.

Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball

His 1947–48 team won the Helms Foundation Los Angeles Invitational with a 46–44 win over Syracuse, the same year Henderson coached the Marshall football team to the second-ever Tangerine Bowl.

Maryland Terrapins men's basketball

The team was led by its second All-American, Gene Shue, who was honored in both that season and the prior year.

Nova Southeastern Sharks men's basketball

The NSU Sharks Men's Basketball team represents Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.

Oklahoma State University men's basketball team plane crash

This crash should not be confused with a second plane crash that happened on November 17, 2011, that killed head coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, of the OSU Women's Basketball team, as well as State Senator Olin Branstetter.

Ole Miss Rebels

The younger Insell had spent the previous five seasons as an assistant under Matthew Mitchell at Kentucky.

Outside the Lines

More recently, former NBA player John Amaechi appeared on the February 11, 2007 edition to publicly come out as gay, and the May 11, 2008 edition reported that former USC basketball star O. J. Mayo had allegedly received thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise from a runner for a sports agent dating back to his high school career.

San Francisco Dons men's basketball

Combined with other revelations, school president Rev. John Lo Schiavo announced on July 26 that he was shutting down the basketball program—the first time a school had shut down a major sport under such circumstances.

South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball

The team does not have an official television partner, but Jackrabbit games have been televised on Midco Sports Net, Fox College Sports, the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and local television networks.

Stephanie Glance

She was a special assistant at the University of Tennessee under Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest NCAA Basketball coach and was the former interim head coach of the women's basketball team at North Carolina State University, succeeding Kay Yow in 2009.

Steve Alford

In his senior year, the Alford-led 1986-87 Hoosiers won Indiana's fifth national championship against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament.

Troy Trojans men's basketball

He was inducted into the Wiregrass Sports Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Dothan, Alabama on June 7, 2008.

UNC Greensboro Spartans men's basketball

After four years with the Spartans, Peele was promoted to replace former head coach Mike Dement, who had left to take over the men's basketball program at SMU.

Up and Coming

Among the cast members were former Stanford University basketball star L. Wolfe Perry, Jr. and a teenage Cindy Herron (who years later would become a founding member of the R&B female quartet En Vogue).

Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball

Jeff Turner- won the gold medal in men's basketball as a member of Team USA at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Victor Holt

(May 8, 1908 – April 22, 1988) was an American college basketball standout at Oklahoma in the late 1920s.

Walter Luckett

Luckett starred at the prep level for Kolbe High School in his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut before playing at Ohio University for the Bobcats between 1972–73 and 1974–75.

WCPV

WCPV serves as the flagship station for University of Vermont men's basketball, along with sister station WEAV.

Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball

Leuer would go on to be selected in the second round of the NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.

WKLR

The station was, for many years, the flagship station for The College of William & Mary Tribe football and men's basketball.

WKNR

WKNR also serves as: a co-flagship station for both the Cleveland Browns and the Lake Erie Monsters; the Cleveland affiliate for Ohio State football and men's basketball; and the home of radio personalities Jerod Cherry, Matt Wilhelm, and Tony Grossi.

WOKY

As part of the deal, the station will air all Badgers sports broadcasts, with football and men's basketball being simulcast with sister station WRIT-FM and the Badger Daily Show segment being shared with WISN.


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