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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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KU basketball celebrates 60 years in fieldhouse
KYLE PAPPAS
@KylePap
Kansas Athletics is holding an anniversary event tonight commemorating 60 years of Kansas basketball in Allen Fieldhouse. All four of Kansas' living coaches — Ted Owens, Larry Brown, Roy Williams and Bill Self — will gather at
the center of Naismith Court to celebrate college basketball's most historic venue. ESPN analyst Jay Bilas will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
According to kuathletics.com, there will also be a dinner prior to the event for "patrons wanting an intimate experience." Ticket packages for the dinner event are now
sold out.
championship.
Owens coached the Jayhawks from 1964-1983, compiling a .657 winning percentage and making two Final Four appearances. His 348 wins are third among all Kansas coaches. Brown succeeded Owens in 1983, leading the Jayhawks to two Final Fours and one national
Williams took over in 1988, guiding Kansas to four Final Fours while recording a .805 winning percentage. He was named the 1997 Naismith College Coach of the Year and is considered one of the most successful coaches in Jayhawk history. In 2003, he accepted the head coaching position
at North Carolina, where he's still at today. Current coach Bill Self has led the Kansas team to 10-straight conference championships and maintains a record of 168-9 at Allen Fieldhouse.
The four will reunite for the first time and will relive some of their favorite moments inside the Phog from the last
60 years.
Doors for non-dining guests are set to open at 7 p.m., with the actual event beginning at 7:30 p.m. Single ticket pricing ranges from $25-$60. Proceeds of the event will be donated to various charities selected by the four coaches.
Edited by Emily Brown
Ted Owens
KANSAS CAREER:
The third most wins in Kansas head-coaching history belongs to Ted Owens. Owens coached Kansas from 1964-1983, amassing 348 victories in his 19-year tenure. He led Kansas to seven national tournament appearances and two final fours.
In his first three seasons, Owens won the Big 8 Holiday Tournament and defeated Kansas State seven out of his first eight chances. Owens was part of a major transition for college basketball. In the beginning of his KU tenure, the Final Four was held in small gyms; when he left, the games were being played in large arenas.
JoJo White and Darnell Valentine are two of the five All-Americans Owens coached in his career at Kansas. In 1978, Basketball Weekly named Owens the National Coach of the Year, and he was named Big 8 Conference Coach of the Year five times.
Owens had an impressive .639 winning percentage in Big 8 play, recording 170 wins and only 96 losses, resulting in six regular season Big 8 titles. Owens was fired after the 1982-83 season, due to Kansas' first consecutive losing seasons in over a decade.
Owens' time at Kansas was during a relatively forgotten era of Kansas basketball, as it was in the middle of a 30-year championship drought. In 1968, Owens and the Jayhawks lost in the finals of the NIT to Dayton.
NON-KANSAS CAREER:
Owens attended the University of Oklahoma and was on four teams that never won less than 20 games. His first coaching job was at Cameron State, where he recorded a 93-24 record. In 1960, Owens became Dick Harp's assistant coach. The senior class for Owens' first season had petitioned for him to become Kansas' next head coach.
"To find myself as head basketball coach at the finest basketball school in the country gives you a feeling that is hard to describe." Owens told the Topeka Capital-Journal. "Elation is hardly a word to describe my feeling."
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Larry Brown
KANSAS CAREER:
Larry Brown coached at the University from 1983-1988. While at Kansas, Brown won 134 games for a winning percentage of .754 and ranked fifth all-time among Kansas coaches. Brown appeared in the NCAA tournament every season and finished either first or second in the Big 8 Conference during his five-year Kansas career.
In 1986, Brown had his winningest season as Kansas' coach, winning 34 games and was named Big 8 Coach of the Year. He won the Big 8 Conference title outright, won the Big 8 Tournament and advanced to the Final Four, where Kansas lost to Duke, which went on to win the NCAA Tournament. During the 1988 season, Brown added current coach Bill Self to his team of assistants.
In 1988, Kansas won the Big 8 Tournament and the NCAA Tournament with 1988 consensus All-American Danny Manning. Manning was the only All-American Brown coached while at Kansas.
After winning the Naismith Coach of the Year Award, Brown left Kansas in 1988 to coach the San Antonio Spurs.
NON-KANSAS CAREER:
Brown started his coaching career in the American Basketball Association as the coach of the Carolina Cougars in 1972. Brown coached the Cougars and the Denver Nuggets until 1979 when he accepted the UCLA coaching position.
Brown coached UCLA to a 42-17 record and a national championsjip during his two seasons. In 1981, Brown left UCLA to coach the New Jersey Nets.
After four seasons with the Nets, Brown went back to the college level to coach at Kansas. After 134 wins and one national championship, Brown left Kansas to coach the Spurs. He stayed in the NBA coaching carousel from 1988 to 2010, coaching seven different teams and becoming the fourth-winningest coach in NBA history with 987 wins.
Currently, Brown is the coach at Southern Methodist University. Brown is the oldest active college coach at the age of 72.
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Roy Williams
KANSAS CAREER:
Out of the eight coaches in Kansas basketball history, Roy Williams has the second-highest winning percentage, leaving Kansas with an .805 winning percentage in 15 seasons from 1988-2003. His most successful stretch came in 2002 and 2003, where Williams led Kansas to back-to-back Final Fours. Though he didn't win any national championships at Kansas, he did lead the team to four Final Fours and two runner-up finishes.
Williams led a high-powered offense during his tenure, leading the Jayhawks to a field-goal percentage of 50 percent or higher seven times. In 2002, Kansas had the highest field-goal percentage in the country. He led the Jayhawks to nine conference championships.
Williams facilitated the development of one of the most successful Jayhawks in the school's history. After departing for the NBA in 1998, Paul Pierce went on to average 21 points and six rebounds for his career. Pierce averaged 16 points and six rebounds in his six seasons at Kansas. Other successful players under Williams' guidance include Kirk Hinrich, Nick Colliison and Drew Gooden, who all went on to the NBA.
NON-KANSAS CAREER:
before coaching at Kansas, Williams spent a decade as an assistant coach for the University of North Carolina. He helped lead the Tar Heels to a national championship in 1982 and was also involved in the recruiting of Michael Jordan.
With Williams as coach, North Carolina has made the NCAA Tournament every season except 2010, the year after winning the championship. He was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2011. He has mentored many successful Tar Heels in the NBA including Ty Lawson, Tyler Hansbrough and Danny Green.
A North Carolina native, Williams returned home to become the head coach of the Tar Heels in 2003. A national championship escaped Williams at Kansas, but he was able to find success in Chapel Hill, where he won the national title in 2005 and 2009 and led them to six conference championships.
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Bill Self
KANSAS CAREER:
Bill Self is the current head coach of Kansas basketball, a title he's held since leaving the same position at the University of Illinois in 2003.
Following Self's arrival, Kansas' reputation as owning one of the nation's best home court advantages has only strengthened. He's compiled a 168-9 record within the confines of Allen Fieldhouse and his .827 overall winning percentage is first all-time among KU coaches.
His finest year as coach of the Jayhawks came in 2007-08, when he led his squad to a 37-3 record and an NCAA National Championship. That team won both the Big 12 regular season title and the conference tournament along the way. Kansas has won 10 conference titles under Self.
Additionally, 23 players who Self has coached at Kansas have played in the NBA - 13 of whom are still currently in the league.
Self stayed at OSU until 1993, when his first shot at a head coaching gig came via a struggling Oral Roberts program. Though the Golden Eagles turned in a 5-22 record the year before his arrival, after only four years, Self led the school to a 21-7 record and its first postseason appearance in 13 years.
NON-KANSAS CAREER:
He left ORU for rival Tulsa in 1998, where he stayed for three seasons and compiled a 74-27 record and a winning percentage of .733, which is still the best all-time winning percentage among Tulsa coaches. In 2000, Self left Tulsa for the University of Illinois.
Self began his coaching career at Kansas, though not as its head coach — he replaced current Kentucky coach John Calipari as assistant coach under Larry Brown. He left Kansas for an assistant coaching vacancy at Oklahoma State, Self's alma mater.
In just three seasons, he led the Fighting Illini to two Big 10 championships and reached the Elite Eight for the second time in his career. After the 2002-03 season, Self took over at Kansas when Roy Williams departed for North Carolina.
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