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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
LEGENDS of the
PHOG
KANSAS BASKEEBALL
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LEGENDARY COACHING
MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
Ted Owens AT KANSAS YEARS:1964-1983 RECORD:348-182
Owens began coaching at Kansas in 1960 as an assistant under Dick Harp. When Harp resigned as coach after the 1963-1964 season, Owens took his place. He finished his career at Kansas in 1983 as the third winningest coach, behind Phog Allen and Roy Williams.
ACCOLADES
- Five Big Eight Coach of the Year awards
- 1978 National Coach of the Year, Basketball Weekly
- Reached Final Four in 1971 and 1974
- Five All-American players:
- Walter Wesley, 1964-1966
- Jo Jo White, 1966-1969
- Dave Robisch, 1969-1971
- Bud Stallworth, 1969-1972
- Darnell Valentine, 1978-1981
Member of Sports Hall of Fame in Kansas and Oklahoma
- Member of Sports Hall of Fame in Kansas and Oklahoma
- Three-year letter-winner and second team all-league as a player at Oklahoma (1949-1951)
COACHING BEFORE KANSAS
Owens started coaching in Lawton, Okla., at Cameron State Junior College, now known as Cameron University, going 93-24 in four seasons. At Cameron, he won more than 20 games every season and made it to three national junior college tournament semifinal games.
LIFE AFTER KANSAS
After 19 seasons, Owens was replaced at Kansas by Larry Brown. He returned to the state of Oklahoma, this time coaching Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. But the Golden Eagles struggled under Owens, accumulating a 21-35 record during the two seasons he was at the helm.
He then coached at Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel in the 1989-1990 season. Folklore has it that Maccabi's management introduced him as Ted Evans, and after failed attempts of trying to correct the recurring problem, Owens stuck with the misnomer. This mistake was ominous of the experiment abroad, as Owens left after one ugly season and retired from coaching.
DEFINING MOMENTS
The 1970-1971 Final Four team was perhaps Owens' most talented. At the height of the hippie movement, it served as another kind of force in Lawrence.
Dave Robisch, Pierre Russell, Roger Brown, Bud Stallworth, Aubrey Nash and the rest of the Jayhawks held Long Beach State to eight points in the first half of the team's first game at Allen Fieldhouse.
An unrelenting defense led Kansas to an undefeated conference record, a 27-1 overall record, a No. 4 ranking, and a date with another 27-1, John Wooden's UCLA Bruins, in the Final Four.
Russell's jump-shot kept Kansas in the game, but Henry Bibby (NBA point guard Mike Bibby's father) could not be stopped. The Bruins won 68-60 and went on to defeat Villanova in the title game.
Larry Brown AT KANSAS YEARS:1983-1988 RECORD:135-44
Brown began coaching at Kansas in 1983, replacing the beloved Owens. He finished his career at Kansas with the second and arguably most memorable NCAA Tournament championship in school history. He didn't stay in Lawrence for a long time, but Brown is up there with Allen, James Nismith, Roy Williams, Bill Self and Owens in the pantheon of Kansas basketball coaches.
ACCOLADES
- 1988 NCAA Tournament Champion
- 1988 NCAA Tournament Champion
• Member of the Naismith Memorial篮球 Hall of Fame
• Seven NCAA Tournament Appearances (five with Kansas, two with UCLA)
• Reached Final Four in 1980, 1986, 1988 (1980 with UCLA)
• 1986 Big Eight Coach of the Year
• 1963 graduate, honorable mention All-America guard at North Carolina under former Jayhawk Dean Smith
• 1964 Gold Medal, U.S. Olympic basketball team
• 1968 ABA All-Star Game MVP
• Seventh most assists in ABA history (2,509)
• Most assists in one ABA game (23)
• 2004 NBA Finals champion with the Detroit Pistons
• Only coach to win a championship in NBA and NCAA
COACHING BEFORE KANSAS
Brown was first hired as coach at Davidson College, but he never coached a game there.
He switched to the ABA, where he spent six seasons from 1967-1972, coaching with the Carolina Cougars, then moving to the Denver Nuggets (who joined the NBA in 1976). He coached at UCLA for two seasons, losing 59-54 to Louisville in the title game the first year, and losing in the second round the next year.
After two seasons with the New Jersey Nets in 1981-1983, he rotated between the San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers, Indiana Pacers, Philadelphia 76ers, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks and, finally, the Charlotte Bobcats from 1988 to 2011. Brown never did much in the playoffs until he and Allen Iverson reached the NBA finals in the 2000-01 season, only to fall to Shaquille O'Neal and the Los Angeles Lakers. Just a few years later, in the 2003-04 season, Brown got revenge against the Lakers in five games, this time winning his first NBA championship with Rasheed Wallace, Chauncey Billups and the Detroit Pistons. The next year, Brown and the Pistons lost to the San Antonio Spurs in the finals.
ON TO THE NBA
DEFINING MOMENT
In the CBS post-game interview, with thick rimmed glasses covering half of his face, Brown didn't have much to say to analyst Bill Packer.
Danny and the Miracles. The 1988 NCAA champion Jayhawks under Brown, led by Manning, were heavy underdogs against the division rival Oklahoma Sooners. But Manning dominated, earning the game's Most Outstanding Player award by scoring 31 points and grabbing 18 rebounds and five steals. With Manning's two game-clinching free throws, the Jayhawks trumped the Sooners 83-79 in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., Manning was mailed by everyone in the building as Jayhawk fight songs roared.
"I don't know how to say national champs," Brown said. "But I'm gonna learn how."
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