Dave Gavitt
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David Roy Gavitt was an American college basketball coach and athletic director at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He was also well known as the first commissioner of the Big East Conf
Dave Gavitt Hall of Fame
John Thompson (basketball)
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John Robert Thompson Jr. was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major
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…2000). Gavitt was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2006. He became the third former member of the Friar athletic program (after John Thompson and Lenny Wilkens), and the first native of Rhode Island to be enshrined. The Providence Friars' court at the Amica Mutual Pavilion is named after…
Thompson with President Ronald Reagan and Patrick Ewing after Georgetown won the 1984 national title
John Thompson speaks with US service members in South Korea