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One of the greatest coaches in college basketball history, Dean Smith, died today at age 83.
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Did ever coach against Bradley? I know he played for Kansas too. Did he play against Bradley?Last edited by BUBraves04; 02-09-2015, 12:33 PM. -
Joe Stowell coached Bradley against Dean Smith's North Carolina team featuring All American Bob McAdoo one time in the 1971-72 season. It was in the 1971 Sugar Bowl tournament in New Orleans. Bradley advanced to the championship game with an upset 84-72 win over Purdue, and then met Dean Smith's #4 ranked UNC team on December 30, 1971. UNC had clobbered St. Joseph's 93-77 to advance to the championship game.
Bradley played Smith's UNC team surprisingly tough, but lost by the score of 75-69. Despite the fact that the MVP award for the tournament had virtually always gone to a member of the championship team, Bradley's Rich Schultz (from Springfield) was named the MVP. I think he scored 30 points in the championship game.
Bradley's Sam Simmons also made the All-Tournament team in addition to Rich Schultz.
I found this old newspaper article-
And here is the text from the BU Yearbook, The Anaga-
Bradley captures
second at
Sugar Bowl
A high-point of the Brave's
1971-72 basketball season was
participation in the Sugar Bowl
Mid-Winter Classics. Bradley
placed ahead of St. loseph's
of Pennsylvania and Purdue
losing only to top-ranked North
Carolina (75-69).
Rich Schultz was voted most
valuable player of the tourna-
ment by the Sugar Bowl Com-
mittee. Bradley received further
recognition through Collette
Steg who was selected to rep-
resent Illinois during the Sugar
Bowl parade and other func-
tions of the week.Comment
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Celestial Coaching Clinic!
RIP Coach Smith.
Be sure to stop by and say hello to Naismith, Rupp, and Wooden when you get a chance!
Now that would be some kind of coaching clinic!
BUilding for the Future
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Thanks Coach for the information! What a legend!!Comment
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