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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
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Bowling Green State University
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Bowling Green State University is a large, primarily residential, public research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The 1, 338-acre main academic and residential campus is located 15 miles south of Toledo, over the universitys history, it developed from a small rural normal school into a comprehensive public university. As of 2012 Bowling Green offered over 200 undergraduate programs, as well as masters and its academic programs have been nationally ranked by Forbes magazine, U. S. News & World Report, and Washington Monthly. The 2011 Carnegie Foundation classified BGSU as having high research activity, Research projects in the areas of psychology, sociology, education and human development, energy and sustainability are among the most prominent. BGSU had a residential student population of 6,500 students. The university also maintains a campus, known as BGSU Firelands, in Huron. Although the majority of students attend classes on BGSUs main campus, about 2,500 students attend classes at Firelands, about 85% of Bowling Greens students are from Ohio. The university hosts a student life program, with over 300 student organizations. The campus is home to events including the Dance Marathon, Winterfest. During the period, people of northwestern Ohio campaigned for a school in their region to better quality education. Bowling Green offered four possible sites and became one of four finalists including Fremont, Napoleon, despite the town being the home of John Lowry, Napoleon was ruled out because the commission found it had numerous saloons. Fremont was eliminated due to the specific stipulations imposed by the President Rutherford B. Hayes Memorial Commission. Bowling Green was chosen on November 10,1910 over Van Wert in a 3–2 vote by the commission, at the same time, the commission chose Kent for a school in Northeastern Ohio. Over the years 1911 and 1912, the Board of Trustees was appointed by the Governor, a campus plan was created and $150,000 was appropriated to develop the campus and construct the first buildings. The school opened on September 15,1914 as Bowling Green State Normal School in two locations at the Bowling Green Armory and at a branch school in Toledo for the 1914–1915 academic year. It initially enrolled 304 students from Ohio, Michigan, and New York who were taught by 21 faculty members, the school graduated its first class in 1915, consisting of 35 certified teachers. University Hall and Williams Hall opened that year, the schools first two permanent buildings, two years later the first baccalaureate degrees for teacher education were awarded. On March 28,1920 a tornado, part of the 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, the tornado touched down near Bowling Green and strengthened as it moved into Ottawa County where it killed two people in Genoa
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University of Toledo
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The University of Toledo, commonly referred to as U of Toledo or UT, is a public research university located in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The university was founded in 1872 in downtown Toledo as the Toledo University of Arts, the university moved to its current location in the Ottawa neighborhood in 1931. Toledo has over 100,000 living alumni and has a current enrollment of over 20,000 students, the university has a vibrant campus life, with over 300 student organizations. Its athletic teams, called the Rockets, are members of the Mid-American Conference, the University of Toledo began in 1872 as a private arts and trades school offering subjects such as painting and architectural drawing. The idea behind the school was fostered by Jesup Wakeman Scott, a newspaper editor. Scotts publication expressed his belief that the center of commerce was moving westward. The universitys original mission was to furnish artists and artisans with the best facilities for a culture in their professions. Scott died in 1874, a year before the university opened in an old building downtown Toledo. By the late 1870s the school was in trouble and after thirty years in operation. On January 8,1884, the assets of the school became property of the city of Toledo, the school reopened as the under direction of the city as the Toledo Manual Training School. It offered a program for students at least 13 years old who received both academic and manual instruction. Raymond also created the College of Arts and Sciences, despite the expansion, the school struggled financially and endured various legal battles over control. A. Monroe Stowe became president in 1914, and helped organize and stabilize the university, Stowe founded the College of Commerce and Industry in 1914, and the College of Education in 1916. During the period, enrollment grew from 200 students to around 1,500, along with the expanded academic offerings, extracurricular activities increased with the universitys first intercollegiate athletic programs forming in 1915, including football in 1917. Other organizations formed, such as the addition of a student council, the athletic programs received their nickname, the Rockets, in 1923 from a newspaper writer, who thought the name reflected the teams playing style. By the 1920s, Toledo University was an institution, limited only by the buildings that housed it. Classes were held in two buildings, but both were too small. Despite being twice the size of the old buildings, the location on the Scott land quickly became outdated after a 32 percent increase in enrollment created a shortage in classroom space, in 1928, Henry J. Doermann became president and soon initiated plans for a new campus
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Otterbein University
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Otterbein University is a small, highly residential, private, four-year liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, United States. It offers 74 majors and 44 minors as well as eight graduate programs, featured programs include engineering, business management, education, and music, as well as programs and pre-professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine. The university was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, as a result of a division and two mergers involving the church, the university has since 1968 been associated with the United Methodist Church. The university is named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein, in 2010, its name reverted from Otterbein College to Otterbein University to reflect the increasing array of graduate and undergraduate programs offered. It is primarily an undergraduate institution with approximately 2,300 undergraduate and 450 graduate students on the campus, Otterbein has over 100 student organizations and a popular Greek presence. The schools mascot is Cardy the Cardinal and the school is a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference in Division III athletics, Otterbein University was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. As a result of a division and two mergers involving the Church, the university has since 1968 been associated with the United Methodist Church, the University is named for United Brethren founder the Rev. Philip William Otterbein. The Otterbein campus is located in Westerville, Ohio and it sits between Alum Creek on the west and State Street on the east. West Home Street, which runs through the center of campus, is the address of most of the homes and student residence halls. The north end of the campus is home to most underclassman housing, overall, the Campus occupies 140 acres Towers Hall is the oldest building on campus and is designated as a national landmark. Towers Hall is a 55,619 square foot structure that was opened in 1871, a gallery of portraits of former Otterbein presidents is located on the second floor. Towers Hall houses the Departments of English, History and Political Science, Religion and Philosophy, Foreign Language, Sociology, the Frank Museum of Art houses Otterbeins collection of art from Africa, Japan and New Guinea. The museum is located in the former Church House of Lillian Frank, upon her death, the structure was given for the purpose of creating a museum for the Universitys collection. The building was built in 1877, opened as a museum in the winter 2004. The Rike Recreation Center is a complex containing a varsity basketball court, an in-door track and practice courts, a weight room. The complex also includes outdoor softball, baseball and soccer fields, the complex was completed in 1975 and has 72,500 square feet. The domed roof encloses an intercollegiate hardwood basketball floor with seating for 3,100, memorial Stadium is Otterbeins football stadium. The stadium contains state-of-the-art locker rooms, a room and an equipment room
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Liberal arts college
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A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences. A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational. Other researchers have adopted similar definitions, most liberal arts colleges outside of the United States follow this model. Liberal arts colleges are distinguished from other types of higher education chiefly by their generalist curricula and these attributes have various secondary effects in terms of administration as well as student experience. For example, class size is much lower at liberal arts colleges than at universities. Many students select liberal arts colleges with precisely this sense of connection in mind. From an administrative standpoint, the size of liberal arts colleges contributes to their cohesion. Job satisfaction is also higher in liberal arts colleges, for both faculty and staff. In addition, most liberal arts colleges are residential, which means students live and learn away from home. The distinctiveness of these attributes is somewhat eroded by the tendency of universities to adopt aspects of the arts college. In addition, some universities have maintained a sub-unit that preserves many aspects of the arts college. Liberal arts colleges themselves sometimes cluster to offer greater curricular breadth or share other resources, most liberal arts colleges nowadays, however, offer more than just liberal arts subjects, such as computer science from the formal science discipline. Liberal arts colleges are found in all parts of the world, the Global Liberal Arts Alliance, which incorporates institutions on five continents, refers to itself as an international, multilateral partnership of American style liberal arts institutions. These colleges served as a means of spreading a basically European cultural model across the new country, the model proliferated in the 19th century, some 212 small liberal arts colleges were established between 1850 and 1899. As of 1987, there were about 540 liberal arts colleges in the United States, the oldest liberal arts college in America is considered to be Washington College, the first college chartered after American independence. Olaf College as well as Augsburg College in Minnesota, and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, most are private institutions, but a handful of public liberal arts schools exist, such as the University of Mary Washington, and New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. Liberal arts colleges are found in Canada, including Mount Allison University, Bishops University. In the Netherlands, universities have opened constituent liberal arts colleges under the university college since the late 1990s
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Columbus, Ohio
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Columbus is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Ohio. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States, with a population of 850,106 as of 2015 estimates and this makes Columbus the fourth-most populous state capital in the United States, and the third-largest city in the Midwestern United States. It is the city of the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 2,021,632, it is Ohios third-largest metropolitan area, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The city proper has also expanded and annexed portions of adjoining Delaware County, named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. As of 2013, the city has the headquarters of five corporations in the U. S, fortune 500, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, American Electric Power, L Brands, Big Lots, and Cardinal Health. In 2012, Columbus was ranked in BusinessWeeks 50 best cities in America. In 2013, Forbes gave Columbus an A rating as one of the top cities for business in the U. S. and later that included the city on its list of Best Places for Business. Columbus was also ranked as the No.1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation by Forbes in 2008, and the city was ranked a top-ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no.3 in the U. S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no.1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, under the control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763. In the 18th century, European traders flocked to the area, the area found itself frequently caught between warring factions, including American Indian and European interests. In the 1740s, Pennsylvania traders overran the territory until the French forcibly evicted them, in the early 1750s, the Ohio Company sent George Washington to the Ohio Country to survey. Fighting for control of the territory in the French and Indian War became part of the international Seven Years War, during this period, the region routinely suffered turmoil, massacres, and battles. The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded the Ohio Country to the British Empire, after the American Revolution, the Ohio Country became part of the Virginia Military District, under the control of the United States. Colonists from the East Coast moved in, but rather finding a empty frontier, they encountered people of the Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Shawnee. The tribes resisted expansion by the fledgling United States, leading to years of bitter conflict, the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers resulted in the Treaty of Greenville, which finally opened the way for new settlements. By 1797, a surveyor from Virginia named Lucas Sullivant had founded a permanent settlement on the west bank of the forks of the Scioto River
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Nate Thurmond
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Nathaniel Nate Thurmond was an American basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association with the Golden State Warriors. He played the center and power forward positions, Thurmond was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double. In 1965, he grabbed 42 rebounds in a game, only Wilt Chamberlain, Thurmond was named both a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Known to fans as Nate the Great, Thurmond has had his No.42 jersey retired by both the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers, Thurmond starred at Akrons Central High School, where he played alongside fellow future NBA star Gus Johnson. Passing up an offer from Ohio State to avoid becoming a backup to Jerry Lucas. Thurmond led the Mid-American Conference in rebounds during all three of his varsity seasons, and was named a first-team All-American by The Sporting News in 1963. In Thurmonds last two years with Bowling Green, he helped lead the team into the NCAA Tournament and he set a record with 31 rebounds in his final college game. Thurmond was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors in the 1963 NBA draft, as a rookie, he mainly played a supporting role alongside Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain. Thurmond averaged 7 points and 10.4 rebounds in his first NBA season and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team in 1964, after Chamberlain was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers during the next season, Thurmond blossomed into a highly productive starting center for the Warriors. Among his many accomplishments, Thurmond set a season record for rebounds in a quarter with 18. However, even with the contributions of star teammates like Rick Barry and they reached the 1967 NBA Finals, but lost to Chamberlains 76ers. Thurmond was acquired by the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Clifford Ray, the Bulls had felt a need for one starting center rather than continue with a three-man rotation of Ray, Tom Boerwinkle and Dennis Awtrey. The Warriors added more fiscal stability when completing the deal, thirteen games into the 1975–76 season, Thurmond was traded along with Rowland Garrett to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Steve Patterson and Eric Fernsten on November 27,1975. After retirement, Thurmond returned to San Francisco and opened a restaurant and he sold the restaurant after 20 years, while living in San Francisco with his wife, Marci. He was given the title Warriors Legend & Ambassador by the Warriors organization, Thurmond died on July 16,2016, nine days away from his 75th birthday, after a short battle with leukemia. Alvin Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson are the other players to achieve a quadruple-double. Hall of Fame profile NBA profile Carrer statistics and player informations on Basketball-Reference. com
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Bowling Green Falcons
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The Bowling Green Falcons are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Bowling Green State University, located in Bowling Green, Ohio. The Falcons participate in NCAA Division I in the Mid-American Conference, BGSU is one of only 15 universities in the nation that plays Division I FBS football and Division I mens ice hockey. The Falcons have won three conference championships in womens basketball in 2005,2006, and 2007. The womens soccer team captured the conference crown, the Falcons main rivals are the Toledo Rockets, separated by just 20 miles of Interstate 75 in northwestern Ohio, the two schools celebrate a heated rivalry in several sports. The best known of these games is the football game. The winner now takes home a bronzed I-75 road sign, the winner used to take home the Peace Pipe, a Native American peace pipe placed upon a wood tablet. The Falcons are a historical MAC powerhouse winning ten conference championships, the Falcons and Kent State also compete for the Anniversary Award which commemorates the two institutions founding in 1910 with the passing of the Lowry bill. Famous Falcon football players include Kory Lichtensteiger, Shaun Suisham and Don Nehlen, notable Bowling Green coaches include College Football Hall of Fame members Doyt Perry and Don Nehlen, as well as Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. The womens basketball team has won ten tournaments, eleven regular season championships. The womens basketball team has made the NCAA tournament nine times, the 2006-07 team became the first womens basketball team from the MAC to reach the Sweet Sixteen after defeating 10th-seeded Oklahoma State 70–60 and upset 2nd-seeded Vanderbilt 60–59. The current head coach of the Falcons is Jennifer Roos, in her first full season as head coach, Roos led the team to the third round of the WNIT. Roos served on the staff of previous BGSU Womens Basketball head coach Curt Miller, Miller also led the Falcons to five conference tournament championships and six consecutive regular season championships. The Falcons defeated Minnesota-Duluth 5–4 in the fourth overtime, the game is the longest NCAA ice hockey game ever played. The game was broadcast on WBGU, called by John Bowers, John is now with the Cleveland Indians. Prominent coaches Ron Mason and Jerry York spent time as coaches at Bowling Green before leaving for very successful stints at Michigan State. The Falcons are currently coached by former Miami RedHawks assistant coach and player and he replaced interim head coach Denis Williams who took over for Scott Paluch for the 2009-10 season. Paluch had been the Falcons head coach from the 2002-03 season through the 2008-09 season, over seven seasons, Paluch posted a record of 84-156-23, with his best season coming during the 2004-05 season in which the Falcons finished in 5th place in the CCHA with a 16-16-4 record. Under Paluch, the Falcons only got past the CCHA Tournament First Round once, defeating Lake Superior 2 games to 1, named in honor of former football coach Doyt Perry, the stadium was opened in 1966 replacing University Stadium
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Anderson Arena
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The arena, which opened in 1960, served as the home arena for the Bowling Green mens and womens basketball teams and womens volleyball team until 2011. Following their season finales in 2010 and 2011, the moved into the newly built Stroh Center on the east side of campus. It originally had a capacity of 4,700 people for basketball games. For gymnastics meets, the capacity is 2,800, the arena is named after Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Harold Anderson, who coached Bowling Greens mens basketball team from 1942–63, leading the Falcons to three NCAA tournament appearances. Anderson Arena played host to the game of the 1983 Mid-American Conference Mens Basketball Tournament. The arena also hosted first round games for the NCAA Division I Womens Basketball Tournament in 1989,1993 and 1994, by the dawn of the new millennium, problems arose with the arena. There were only two restrooms in the entire arena--a serious problem whenever attendance was anywhere near capacity and it lacked a number of modern conveniences, such as air conditioning. The concession facilities were well behind the times and its acoustics and seating arrangement for concerts left much to be desired. Most severely, it was nowhere near compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Bowling Green mens basketball team won their final regular season game at Anderson Arena, defeating Buffalo 73–63. Carol A. Cartwright and Ellen Anderson, the daughter of former coach, the ceremony included a video tribute and a few speeches were given reminiscing the history of the arena. The final commencement ceremonies at the Anderson Arena occurred on May 6–7,2011 with 1,958 undergraduate and graduate students receiving their diplomas in four ceremonies over the two days
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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as the sports most complete library, in addition to promoting and preserving the history of basketball, dedicated to Canadian physician and inventor of the sport James Naismith, it was opened and inducted its first class in 1959. As of the induction of the Class of 2016 on September 9,2016, the Naismith Hall of Fame was established in 1959 by Lee Williams, a former athletic director at Colby College. In the 1960s, the Basketball Hall of Fame struggled to raise money for the construction of its first facility. The Basketball Hall of Fames Board named four inductees in its first year, in addition to honoring those who contributed to basketball, the Hall of Fame sought to make contributions of its own. In 1979, the Hall of Fame sponsored the Tip-Off Classic and this Tip-Off Classic has been the start to the college basketball season ever since, and although it does not always take place in Springfield, Massachusetts, generally it returns every few years. In the 17 years that the original Basketball Hall of Fame operated at Springfield College, the popularity of the Basketball Hall of Fame necessitated that a new facility be constructed, and in 1985, an $11 million facility was built beside the scenic Connecticut River in Springfield. As the new hall opened, it also recognized women for the first time, with such as Senda Berenson Abbott. In 2002, the Basketball Hall of Fame moved again—albeit merely 100 yards south along Springfields riverfront—into a $47 million facility designed by renowned architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the buildings architecture features a metallic silver, basketball-shaped sphere flanked by two similarly symmetrical rhombuses. The dome is illuminated at night and features 80,000 square foot, including numerous restaurants, the second Basketball Hall of Fame was not torn down but rather converted into an LA Fitness health clubs. The current Basketball Hall of Fame features Center Court, a basketball court on which visitors can play. Inside the building there are a gallery, many interactive exhibits, several theaters. A large theater for ceremonies seats up to 300, the honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold medalist. As of 2011, the current Basketball Hall of Fame has greatly exceeded attendance expectations, despite the new facilitys success, a logistical problem remains for the Basketball Hall of Fame and the City of Springfield. Urban planners at universities such as UMass Amherst have called for the I-91 to be moved, in 2010, the Urban Land Institute announced a plan to make the walk between Springfields Metro Center and the Hall of Fame easier. Since 2011, the induction process employs a total of seven committees to both screen and elect candidates, since 2011, the Veterans and International Committees also vote to directly induct one candidate for each induction class. Contributor Direct Election Committee Note that other committees may choose to elect contributors, for example, the 2014 class included two contributors. However, each screening committee is limited as to the number of candidates it can put forth to the Honors Committee—10 from the North American Committee, any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame
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Toledo Rockets men's basketball
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The Toledo Rockets mens basketball team represents the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The schools team competes in the Mid-American Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 1980 and their current head coach is Tod Kowalczyk. The Rockets have appeared in four NCAA Tournaments, * In 1979 there were two first-round games in their region prior to the second round but Toledo did not play in a first-round game. The Rockets have appeared in eight National Invitation Tournaments, the Rockets have appeared in one CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament. The Rockets have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational
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Bill Orwig
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James Wilfred Bill Orwig was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football and college basketball at the University of Michigan and he later served as the athletic director at the University of Toledo, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the Indiana University Bloomington. Raised in Toledo, Ohio, Orwig was an athlete in high school. He received three varsity letters in basketball and one in football, after graduating from Michigan, Orwig was a successful high school football and basketball coach from 1931 to 1945 in Benton Harbor, Michigan and Toledo. He helped develop a program for the occupation forces in Germany and became the athletic director, football coach. He accepted a job as director at the University of Nebraska in 1954. In 1961, he was hired as director at Indiana University and led the Hoosiers from a four-year NCAA probation to 37 Big Ten Conference championships. He hired Bobby Knight as basketball coach at Indiana, and has been inducted into the Halls of Fame at Indiana, Michigan and Toledo. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Toledo, Ohio, Orwig won letters in football, basketball, baseball and swimming at Scott High School, and won all-state honors in football and basketball. He played guard for the University of Michigan basketball team three years, from 1928 to 1930, helping the team win the Big Ten Conference championship in his junior year and he was picked as an All-Big Ten basketball player in 1930. He also played at the end position for the Michigan football team in 1928, while at Michigan, he was a member of Phi Mu Delta fraternity and a member of the Michigauma society. He graduated from the School of Education in 1930, from 1930 to 1931, Orwig was a graduate assistant working with Michigans freshman football team, and also tutoring freshman player and future U. S. President Gerald R. Ford. In May 1931, Orwig succeeded Wally Weber as head coach at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor. In five years at Benton Harbor, the team won 75% of its games. Orwig also coached the basketball and tennis teams, and in 1934 and he also coached Earl Brown at Benton Harbor, who went on to be an All-American at Notre Dame. In 1936, he moved back to his hometown, Toledo, at Libbey, Orwigs teams won three state football championships and six city basketball crowns. He worked with the U. S. State Department during World War II, Orwig was hired in 1946 as the athletic director at the University of Toledo, where he helped reinstate the athletic programs after the end of World War II. He was also the Toledo Rockets football coach, leading the team to a 15–4–2 record, in one season as Toledos basketball coach, he led the team to a 19–6 record
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Warren Steller
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Warren Steller was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the football coach at Bowling Green State Normal Schoo—now known as Bowling Green State University—from 1924 to 1934. Steller was also the basketball coach at Wesleyan University in 1922–23 and at Bowling Green in 1924–25. In addition, he was the baseball coach at Wesleyan in 1923 and at Bowling Green in 1925 and again from 1928 to 1959. Steller attended Oberlin College, where he played football, basketball, and baseball, in 1921, the Oberlin football team beat Ohio State, 7–6, the last time an intrastate opponent beat Ohio State. In 1965, Bowling Green renamed its baseball stadium Warren E. Steller Field in dedication to the former coach, in 1921, Oberlins football team beat Ohio State, 7–6, at Columbus. The Ohio State team had gone to the Rose Bowl the previous season and that was the last time an intrastate team beat Ohio State. Steller scored the touchdown after the team made an 85-yard march down the field in the third quarter, culminating in a short pass across the goal line. Ohio States coach, John Wilce, was so upset by the loss that he made his stay on the field after the game for a special practice session. Stellers 1944 baseball team at Bowling Green was Ohio college champions, Bowling Green Athletic Hall of Fame profile Warren Steller at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Doyt Perry
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Doyt L. Perry was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as football coach at Bowling Green State University from 1955 to 1964, compiling a record of 77–11–5. During his tenure as coach, Perry led the Bowling Green Falcons to five Mid-American Conference titles, one of the most successful coaches in school history, Perry was elected to College Football Hall of Fame in 1988. The teams football stadium, Doyt Perry Stadium, is named in his honor, before coming to Bowling Green, Perry was a backfield coach at Ohio State University from 1951 to 1954, serving on the same staff as Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler. He coached the 1954 Buckeyes, who won the 1955 Rose Bowl, Perry was also the head coach at Upper Arlington High School in Upper Arlington, Ohio in 1943 and from 1946 to 1950. Doyt Perry at the College Football Hall of Fame Doyt Perry at the College Football Data Warehouse Doyt Perry, A Coach For Life, WBGU-PBS documentary
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Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball
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The Bowling Green Falcons mens basketball team is the basketball team that represent Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The schools team competes in the Mid-American Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament in 1968, the Falcons are now coached by Michael Huger, their 17th head coach. Bowling Green was a member of the Northwest Ohio Intercollegiate Athletic Association from at least 1927-28 through at least 1930-31, information about their conference record is unavailable. Bowling Green was a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference from the 1933-34 through 1941-42 seasons, Bowling Green joined the Mid-American Conference beginning with the 1953–54 season. The Mid-American Conference did not hold a tournament until the 1979–80 season. The Falcons have appeared in four NCAA Tournaments, the Falcons have appeared in 14 National Invitation Tournaments. The Falcons have appeared in two CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament, the Falcons appeared in one Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament, a tournament that was only held twice. BGSU Falcons Mens Basketball Official Site Players who attended BGSU
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Earl Krieger
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Earl Carlton Irish Krieger was an American football and basketball player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and official in football and basketball. He was the head football coach at Bowling Green State Normal School—now known as Bowling Green State University—serving for one season in 1921. Krieger played college football at Ohio University, from which he graduated in 1920 and he played professional football in the National Football League, for the Detroit Tigers in 1921 and the Columbus Panhandles in 1922. In addition to coaching at Bowling Green, Krieger was also a member of the coaching staffs at his alma mater. For 25 years until his retirement in 1953, he worked as a football and basketball official for the Big Ten Conference and he was also a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Associations football rules committee. Krieger died at the age of 64 on November 10,1960, earl Krieger at the College Football Data Warehouse Career statistics and player information from Pro-Football-Reference • Databasefootball. com
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Ray B. McCandless
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Raymond Beebe McCandless was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. In addition, he was the baseball coach at Bowling Green State Normal in the spring of 1924. McCandless played football at Nebraska Wesleyan, McCandless at the College Football Data Warehouse
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Louis Orr
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Louis McLaughlin Orr is an American mens college basketball coach. Orr was most recently the head coach at Bowling Green State University. Orr was the coach at Seton Hall University from April 4,2001 until his firing on March 24,2006. He was formerly an assistant at Xavier University, Providence College and his alma mater Syracuse University, Orr attended Withrow High School where he was coached by Charles Cadle. Orr played at Syracuse from 1976 to 1980 and was part of the famed Bouie & Louie Show with teammate Roosevelt Bouie, after graduating from Syracuse in 1980, he was the 28th pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, selected by the Indiana Pacers. He played two seasons with the Pacers, which included one playoff appearance, after that, he moved on to the New York Knicks, and played for six years, with three playoff berths. Orr averaged career highs rebounds and points for the Knicks with 12.7 and 4.9, respectively and he scored over 5,500 career points as a pro. He got his first assistant coaching job in 1990 with Xavier in Cincinnati, Ohio, then, in 1994, he began serving under Pete Gillen at Providence and soon he was an assistant under Jim Boeheim and the Syracuse Orangemen. During his tenure there, he rose to become a noted assistant, Syracuse reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament twice in during Orrs time there. In 2000, Orr received his first head coaching job, accepting the position as coach of the mens basketball team at Siena College. In his lone year at Siena, Orr led the Saints to a tie for first place in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and a 20–11 record. Siena broke many records that year as well. Orr became the first former Big East player to become a coach in the conference after he was hired in 2001 by Seton Hall after Tommy Amaker left to become the head coach at Michigan. In his first year in the Big East Conference, Orr went 12–18, by his fifth season at Seton Hall, Orr had led the Pirates to two NCAA Tournaments in three years. In the 2004 NCAA Tournament, Seton Hall defeated the 9th seed Arizona in the first round before falling to 1st seed Duke in the second round, during the 2005–06 season, Orr led Seton Hall to a 9–7 record in the Big East and an 18–12 record overall. Seton Hall received was seeded 10th in the 2006 NCAA Tournament and played the 7th seed Wichita State, in his first season at Bowling Green, Orr posted a 13–17 overall record and 7–9 record in the MAC, finishing 5th in the East Division. The following season, Orr led Bowling Green to their 10th MAC regular season title after the Falcons posted an 11–5 conference record, although the top seed in the conference tournament, Bowling Green would fall in the tournament semifinals to eventual champion Akron. As the MAC regular season champion, Bowling Green received a bid to the 2009 National Invitation Tournament
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Senda Berenson Abbott
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Senda Berenson Abbott was a pioneer of womens basketball, authoring the first Basketball Guide for Women. She was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor on July 1,1985, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 and she modified existing mens basketball rules for women in 1899. Abbott was the sister of the art historian Bernard Berenson and a great-great-aunt of the photographer Berry Berenson, Senda Berenson was the first person to introduce and adapt rules for womens basketball to Smith College. Born as Senda Valvrojenski, she immigrated to the United States when she was seven years old and her parents were Albert and Judith Valvrojenski. When Senda was born, she had an older brother Bernard and she would later have another younger brother and two younger sisters. Albert Valvrojenski grew up following a track of classical Jewish learning. However, he became a practitioner of Haskalah, a European movement which advocated more integration of Jews into secular society. However, after his home and lumber business were burned to the ground, he lived with his in-laws and he enrolled his son Bernard with a Hebrew and Aramaic tutor, under this pressure. He decided to move to the United States, where he could raise his family according to his own beliefs and he moved alone to the United States in 1874, locating in the West End of Boston. He became a peddler of pots and pans, selling his wares in local towns near Boston. Albert changed his surname to Berenson soon after his arrival, as part of his Westernization and he worked hard for months, and then sent for his family in 1875. Albert stopped attendance at synagogue, and Bernard did not have the traditional Bar Mitzvah coming of age ritual and he insisted that the family speak only English, and attempted to sever ties to the Jewish traditions. Despite this, his children did not fully abandon their faith, Bernard described himself as Jewish, and continued to practice some Jewish rituals. The family had moved to a section of Boston with almost fifty families from their neighborhood, some of whom were relatives. Bernard attended Boston Latin School one of the most prestigious schools in the country, when he completed his studies there, he moved to Cambridge, in preparation for his enrollment at Harvard. He and Senda were very close, and she, now in her midteens, spent time in Cambridge, bernards circle of friends included Isabella Stewart Gardner, Ralph Adams Cram and George Santayana, the latter two having met each other through Bernard. Following his graduation from Harvard, Bernard moved to Europe, eventually settling in Italy, sendas goal was to emulate her brother. Senda did not have much interest in athletics as a child, and preferred music, literature and she was frail and delicate in her childhood, which interfered with her schooling
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Ray Allen
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Walter Ray Allen Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association. After playing three seasons of basketball for Connecticut, Allen entered the NBA in 1996 and went on to play for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, Boston Celtics. One of the most accurate three-point and free throw shooters in NBA history, he was a ten-time NBA All-Star and he also won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States mens basketball team. Allen is the NBAs all-time leader in career three-point field goals made in both the regular and postseason and he has acted in two films, one of which was a lead role in the 1998 Spike Lee film, He Got Game. The third of five children, Allen was born at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, California, a military child, he spent time growing up in Saxmundham in England, Altus in Oklahoma, Edwards Air Force Base in California, and Germany. He attended high school in Dalzell, South Carolina, where he led Hillcrest High School to a state championship. Allen attended the University of Connecticut from 1993 to 1996 after being recruited by assistant coach Karl Hobbs, while at UConn, he was named USA Basketballs Male Athlete of the Year in 1995. In 1995–96, his college season, Allen was a first-team All-American. Allen finished his UConn career third on the Huskies career scoring list with 1,922 points, in 2001, Allen was named honorary captain of the 25-member UConn All-Century Basketball Team. On February 5,2007, his name and number were honored at Connecticuts Gampel Pavilion during the Huskies of Honor ceremony at halftime of the basketball game against the Syracuse Orange. Allen was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the pick of the 1996 NBA draft. Immediately after his selection, Allen and Andrew Lang were traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for the rights to fourth pick Stephon Marbury. Allen made his NBA debut on November 1,1996 where he started and played 28 minutes and scored 13 points in a win against fellow rookie Allen Iverson and the Philadelphia 76ers. On January 12,1997 Allen put in one of his strongest efforts of the season in a win against the Golden State Warriors contributing 22 points,6 assists,3 steals and a new career high of 9 rebounds. Continuing his strong season, on March 25,1997 Allen scored a new career high of 32 points in a loss to the Phoenix Suns. Allen was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 1996, after an injury-riddled 2003–04 season, he was named to the All-NBA Second Team and, alongside teammate Rashard Lewis, led the Sonics to the Conference Semifinals in 2005. Allen told the press if the Lakers remained a mediocre squad, in about a year or two he will be calling out to Jerry Buss that we need some help in here. When asked about Allens comments, Bryant responded, Dont even put me, after the 2004–05 season, Allen signed a 5-year, $80 million contract extension
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Nate Archibald
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Nathaniel Tiny Archibald is an American retired professional basketball player. He spent 14 years playing in the NBA, most notably with the Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City–Omaha Kings, in 1991, he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Archibald was a willing passer and a shooter from midrange. However, it was his quickness and speed and shiftiness that made him difficult to guard in the open court and he returned to the team as a junior. During his time without basketball, Archibald briefly flirted with dropping out of school after having been largely truant in past years, but with the help of two mentors, Floyd Layne and Pablo Robertson, Archibald turned it around. Despite only playing in blowouts as a junior, the shy, quiet teen managed to blossom into a star, being named team captain. Off the court, Archibald began to school regularly and worked to improve his poor academic standing. To improve his chances of playing college basketball, Archibald enrolled at Arizona Western College. He had three seasons at El Paso, from 1967 to 1970 under Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins. Archibald was selected in the round of the 1970 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals. He was also drafted by the Texas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association, in 1972–73 season, Archibald led the NBA in scoring and assists, becoming the only player to win the titles in both categories in the same season. His scoring average of 34.0 points per game broke the NBA record for a guard and his 910 assists that season was also an NBA record at the time, breaking Guy Rodgers mark of 908. He was named the Sporting News NBA MVP that season, Archibald played for the Kansas City Kings from 1970 to 1976. Although he was the Kings most popular player, he was traded to the New York Nets for two draft picks and two players in 1976, injured for much of the 1976–77 season, he was traded by the Nets to the Buffalo Braves before the 1977–78 season. Archibald tore his achilles tendon and never played a game for the Braves. Buffalo traded him to the Boston Celtics as part of a 7-player deal before the start of the next season and his career at the Celtics started poorly. He showed up 20 pounds overweight, however, he adjusted and helped guide the Celtics to the best record in the NBA for three consecutive years. Archibald won his first and only NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in the 1980–81 season alongside young NBA star Larry Bird, Archibald was an All-NBA First Team selection three times and an All-NBA Second Team selection two times
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Sergei Belov
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Sergei Alexandrovich Belov was a professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the Soviet Union national basketball team. In 1991, Belov was named by FIBA as the Best FIBA Player ever and he became the first international player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on May 11,1992. He was also inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007 and was named one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors in 2008, Belov was born in the village of Nashchyokovo, Shegarsky District, Tomsk Oblast, Soviet Union. He trained at Trud Voluntary Sports Society, and later at Armed Forces sports society, in 1968, he became an Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. He became an Honored Coach of Russia in 1995, and served as President of the Russian Basketball Federation, Belov died on October 3,2013 in Perm, Russia. At the age of twenty, Belov made his debut in the USSR League, with the team of Uralmash Sverdlovsk and he then played with CSKA Moscow for twelve years. With CSKA, he won the USSR League championship eleven times, the USSR Cup twice, as a member of the Soviet Union national basketball team for fourteen years, Belov helped them win a gold medal, and three bronze medals at the Olympic Games. He also helped them to become the FIBA World champions in 1967 and 1974, and the FIBA European champions in 1967,1969,1971, Belov was the head coach of CSKA Moscow, with whom he won the USSR League championship in 1982 and 1990. He was also the coach of Ural Great Perm
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Dave Bing
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David Bing is an American businessman, retired Hall of Fame basketball player, and former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. After starring at Syracuse University, Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association as a guard for the Detroit Pistons, Washington Bullets, and Boston Celtics. During his career, he averaged over 20 points and six assists per game and made seven NBA All-Star appearances, after retiring, the Pistons celebrated his career accomplishments with the retirement of his #21 jersey. In addition, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, upon his retirement from professional basketball, Bing founded Bing Steel, a processing company that earned him the National Minority Small Business Person of the Year award in 1984. Soon the business grew into the multimillion-dollar Detroit-based conglomerate, the Bing Group, after winning the primary, Bing then defeated Interim Mayor Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. and was sworn in as mayor in May 2009. Later that year, Bing was re-elected to a full term, however he lost most of his power to Detroits emergency manager Kevyn Orr, had numerous health problems, and suffered approval ratings as low as 14%. Bing thus did not seek re-election in 2013 and was succeeded by politician and businessman Mike Duggan, Bing was born November 24,1943 in Washington, D. C. to mother Juanita, a housekeeper, and father Hasker, a bricklayer and deacon for the Baptist Church. He was the child of four living in a two bedroom, one-story house in the northeast part of town. In his childhood, Bing received the nickname Duke from his father, because, according to Bing, the family could not afford emergency surgery, leaving the eye to heal on its own and diminishing his vision thereafter. Bings father also suffered a head injury during the boys childhood. While working a construction site, a brick fell four stories onto his head, the episode led young Bing to promise himself that he would never work in such a profession. In athletics, Bing played basketball, but older children often told him he was too small for the game. However, he played well, triumphing over older and bigger children as future Motown musician Marvin Gaye. Bing and Gaye forged a friendship, which continued later in life, despite his basketball play, Bing, a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, focused primarily on baseball, the neighborhoods preferred game. Despite his fuzzy vision, he excelled in baseball at Spingarn High School, nevertheless, the schools head basketball coach William Roundtree encouraged him to revisit basketball. Roundtree became a figure to Bing, who decided to join the team. He developed into a double-digits per game scorer, noted for his jump shot and he continued also to compete in baseball into his senior year, but was forced to choose between it and basketball when a scheduling conflict between two tournaments arose. At the tournament, Bing led his team to victory and earned MVP honors, all in all, in high school, Bing was a three-year letter winner, all–Inter High, all-Metro, and all-East member
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Maurice Cheeks
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Maurice Edward Mo Cheeks is an American retired professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He has also served as coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers. Cheeks was born in Chicago, and attended DuSable High School and he attended West Texas State University from 1974 to 1978. Cheeks was an all-Missouri Valley Conference player for three seasons, as he averaged 16.8 points per game and shot nearly 57% for his collegiate career. He is currently the leading scorer in WTSU/WTAM history. After college, Cheeks was selected as the 36th pick in the round of the 1978 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. As a result, he was named to four straight NBA All-Defensive squads from 1983 to 1986, in NBA history, Cheeks ranks fifth all-time in steals and eleventh all-time in assists. At the time of his retirement from the NBA in 1993, Cheeks was the NBA all-time leader in steals and he averaged 11.7 points per game for his career and notched over 2 steals per contest. After retirement, Cheeks spent one year coaching in the Continental Basketball Association and he coached under head coaches John Lucas, Johnny Davis, and Larry Brown, and he was an instrumental part of the Philadelphia team that reached the 2001 NBA Finals. In 2001, he was hired as Portland Trail Blazers head coach and he led the team to two playoff berths in four years as coach, but could not get past the first round. He was fired after a start to the 2004–05 campaign. On April 25,2003, during a game between the Trail Blazers and the Dallas Mavericks, Cheeks aided 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert in singing the American national anthem. After Gilbert forgot the words at At the twilights last gleaming, Cheeks rushed over to help her and they finished it together, Cheeks and Gilbert received a standing ovation after the song was over. In 2005, Cheeks was named as coach of the 76ers. Cheeks was popular among Sixers fans because of his tenure with the Sixers. The move was praised by Sixers star Allen Iverson, who worked with Cheeks during his run as Sixers Assistant Head Coach. However, he missed the playoffs in each of his first two seasons, frustrations began to grow with Sixers veterans Allen Iverson and Chris Webber, who were not happy with the teams direction. During the 2006–07 season, Iverson would be traded to the Nuggets and Webber would be released, on February 20,2007, the 76ers extended Cheeks contract one year despite his losing record as coach
