Doug Gottlieb
| Doug Gottlieb | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Douglas Michael Gottlieb January 15, 1976 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Basketball Analyst |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Spouse(s) | Angie (m. August 2000) |
| Children | 3 |
Douglas Michael Gottlieb (born January 15, 1976, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former NCAA collegiate and professional (USBL) basketball player, as well as a basketball analyst. He now works for CBS Sports after a long tenure with ESPN.
After signing a national letter of intent with Notre Dame, Gottlieb was their starting point guard during the 1995–1996 college basketball season, starting all but the first four games and leading the team with 154 assists as well as steals and minutes played. However, Gottlieb's stint at Notre Dame would be short. During Gottlieb's freshman year, he was charged with stealing credit cards from a roommate and two others and fraudulently charging over $900 to those cards; Gottlieb has since stated that, after paying back the $900, he was allowed to say he was leaving Notre Dame, in lieu of being expelled.
After leaving Notre Dame, he then transferred to Golden West College where he received an Associate of Arts in business. Despite offers from Cincinnati, Alabama and others to transfer and sit out a season on their campus, Gottlieb chose to sit out his transfer year at Golden West College. GWC was coached by his former Tustin Coach Tom McCluskey, and Gottlieb took on the role of redshirt player/coach.
He practiced with the team and traveled to road games as the assistant coach. In addition, Gottlieb was a volunteer assistant at his high school under Andy Ground. In one game at Santa Ana Valley, Ground was ejected and Gottlieb coached the team to an overtime loss. Gottlieb was perceived to be waiting on Baron Davis to choose a school, as UCLA and Georgia Tech both expressed that Gottlieb was their second choice to Davis. After Davis chose UCLA, a school in which Gottlieb's family had season tickets to for 20 years and his brother and sister were alums (sister was captain of the cheer squad), Gottlieb looked elsewhere to play college ball. His final schools were Marquette, Georgia Tech, Alabama, Oklahoma State, Utah, Oregon and Tennessee.
In 1998, Gottlieb accepted an offer from Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton (under whom Gottlieb's father had once been assistant coach) to attend the university. He immediately took over as point guard for an Oklahoma State team that had gone 17–15 in consecutive years and led the Cowboys to the NCAA tournament. After the season, Gottlieb was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention and was named the 1998–99 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.
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