Dale Brown (basketball)
Brown in 1981
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| Biographical details | |
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| Born |
October 31, 1935 Minot, North Dakota |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1965–1966 | Palm Springs HS |
| 1966–1971 | Utah State (asst.) |
| 1971–1972 | Washington State (asst.) |
| 1972–1997 | LSU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 448–301 (.598) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× Regional Championships - Final Four (1981, 1986) 4× SEC regular season championships (1979, 1981, 1985, 1991) SEC Tournament championship (1980) |
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| Awards | |
| 4x SEC Coach of the Year (1973, 1979, 1981, 1989) | |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2014 |
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Dale Duward Brown (born October 31, 1935) is an American former college basketball coach who spent 25 years leading the LSU Tigers. His team earned Final Four appearances in 1981 and 1986. He is also remembered as one of the most vocal critics of the NCAA because he said it legislated against human dignity.
Brown was born in Minot, North Dakota. He was a star football, basketball, and track performer at St. Leo's High School in Minot, graduating in 1953. During his senior season, he posted the highest scoring average in state basketball history and also set a school record in the quarter mile.
Brown then went to Minot State Teacher's College, where he was a star athlete, earning 12 varsity letters in football, basketball, and track; the only person to accomplish this in these three sports. Sports Illustrated selected him as one of the top 50 athletes of the 20th century from North Dakota.
Brown graduated from Minot State in 1957 and received a master's degree at the University of Oregon in 1964.
1957–59 : Head Coach Basketball, Wrestling, and Track - Columbus H.S. - Columbus, ND
1959–64 : Head Basketball Coach - Bishop Ryan High School - Minot, ND
1961 - Recalled up to military service due to Berlin Crisis, Head Coach Basketball and Track - Fort Riley, KS (received an honorable discharge from US Army as a Sgt.)
He is a member of the North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame, Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame in 1997.
He came to LSU in 1972, replacing Press Maravich as head coach. The LSU program had received great notoriety during the Press Maravich era because of his All-American son, Pete. In spite of the publicity, however, LSU was still a losing program, making no NCAA basketball tournaments and one NIT appearance (third place) during the Maravich Era. Brown took over a team that finished 10-16 in the 1971-1972 season and a program which had not been to the NCAA tournament since 1954 and had only four winning seasons in 18 years prior to his arrival.
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