Steve Lavin (born September 4, 1964) is an American basketball coach and TV analyst. The San Francisco, California native was the head coach of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team from 1996-2003.

Mark Frederick Gottfried (born January 20, 1964 in Crestline, Ohio) is a men's college basketball coach. Gottfried is the current head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. His father, Joe Gottfried, was also a basketball coach and currently serves as Director of Athletics at the University of South Alabama. His uncle, Mike Gottfried, was a college football head coach and is now an analyst on ESPN college football broadcasts. Mark played 3 seasons of basketball at Alabama, …

John Pelphrey is the 14th head men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas (hired April 2007). After being named Kentucky's "Mr. Basketball" in 1987, he became a star college player at the University of Kentucky. Prior to coaching the Razorbacks, he served as head basketball coach for South Alabama. Pelphrey served as an assistant coach under Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State and Billy Donovan at Marshall and Florida. He and his wife Tracy have two children, …

Channing Thomas Frye (born May 17, 1983 in White Plains, New York) is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. His positions are center and power forward. He attended the University of Arizona. Standing at 6 ft 11 in and 248 lb, Frye was expected to be a high pick in the 2005 NBA Draft. He was selected 8th overall by the New York Knicks, and was the first college senior to be selected in that draft.

Tony Oludewa Jeffrey Skinn (born February 8, 1983) was a college basketball player who was a starting guard for the Patriots of George Mason University. He has averaged 12.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game this 2005-2006 season, one marked by the Patriots' surprising run to the Final Four. He scored a season-high of 23 points and hit the game-winning three-point shot with 10.8 seconds left, …

Sue Gunter (May 22, 1939, Walnut Grove, Mississippi, USA - August 4,2005) was a women's college basketball coach. She is best known as the head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team. In Gunter's 22 years as the head coach at LSU (1982-2004), the Lady Tigers played in 14 NCAA Tournaments and two WNITs. Gunter led LSU to one Final Four in 2004 and to the Elite Eight in 1986, 2000 and 2003.

Cuttino Rashawn Mobley (born September 1, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers. Cuttino also known as the "Cat", attended Incarnation of Our Lord grade school in the Olney section of Philadelphia. After graduating from grade school, Cat attended Cardinal Dougherty High School and Maine Central Institute.

Gregory Kevin "Bo" Kimble (born April 9 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American former college basketball star at Loyola Marymount University and professional National Basketball Association player. In the 1989-90 season, he led the 11th seeded Loyola Marymount basketball team on an amazing run to the regional finals of the NCAA Tournament.

Darius Myron Washington Jr. is an All-American former point guard for the University of Memphis Tigers basketball team. He currently plays in Europe for ČEZ Basketball Nymburk. Washington attended Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida, where in his senior year, he played in an ESPN High School Showcase game against Sebastian Telfair of the Portland Trail Blazers, and currently on the Boston Celtics.

Sean Woods is a former basketball player, currently serving as an assistant coach at TCU. Woods played college basketball at Kentucky. As a Wildcat in 1992, he was a member of a senior-laden team colloquially known as the "Unforgettables" who had come to Kentucky in 1988 and had stayed with the school all four years despite a major scandal that put Kentucky on NCAA probation until the 1992 season, in which they were allowed to participate in postseason play again.

Brian Lee Cardinal (born May 2 1977 in Tolono, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.

Dane Fife is the current head coach of the IPFW Mastodons men's basketball team. At 26, he is the youngest NCAA head men's basketball coach. Previously, he played for the Indiana Hoosiers during their 2002 NCAA runner-up campaign. Dane finished his career with the Hoosiers having scored 736 total points. One of the more well-known plays of his college career was a foul on Duke's Jason Williams in the final seconds of a 2002 Sweet Sixteen game.

Frederick (Fred) Terrell Jones (born March 11 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard position for the New York Knicks of the NBA.

Travis Cortez Mays (born June 19 1968 in Ocala, Florida) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 1st round (14th overall pick) of the 1990 NBA Draft. During his rookie campaign for the Kings, he appeared in 64 games and averaged 14.3 points. He spent the next two seasons with the Atlanta Hawks before playing in Europe until 2001. Mays played collegiately at the University of Texas.

William Michael (Bill) Curley (born May 29 1972, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft. A 6'9" power forward, he lead his Duxbury High School Green Dragons basketball team to a Massachusetts State Championship in 1989. He missed most of the next (his senior) season due to an injury.

Paul Evans was an American college head coach of men's basketball. Evans' win-loss record at the University of Pittsburgh was 147-98 (.600). Notable achievements: * 1986 Elite Eight (Navy) * 1987 Big East Conference regular season co-champions (Pittsburgh) * 1988 Big East regular season champions (Pittsburgh)

MaChelle Joseph (born January 13, 1970) is the women's basketball coach for Georgia Tech. Joseph arrived on the Flats after serving as an assistant coach and the recruiting coordinator on Joe Ciampi's staff at Auburn from 1997-2001. She helped guide the Tigers to a combined 97-50 record in five seasons and the second round of the NCAA Tournament on three occasions.

Corie Kasoun Blount (born January 4, 1969 in Monrovia, California) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'9" power forward/center, Blount starred at the University of Cincinnati during the early 1990s, where he helped his team reach the Final Four in 1992 and the Elite Eight in 1993. He was then selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 25th pick of the 1993 NBA Draft, …

Lance Blanks (born September 9 1966, in Del Rio, Texas) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 1st round (26th overall) of the 1990 NBA Draft. Blanks played for the Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves in 3 NBA seasons, averaging 2.0 ppg. He played collegiately at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.

Tyson Aaron Wheeler (born October 8 1975, in New Britain, Connecticut) is an American professional basketball player. A 5'10", 165 lb. point guard, he played four years at the University of Rhode Island basketball team from 1994 to 1998. Along with teammate Cuttino Mobley, Wheeler led the Rams to the Elite Eight in the 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Wheeler was selected with the 18th pick of the 2nd round in the 1998 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors.

Bob Harris, known as "The Voice of the Blue Devils" is hall of fame-inducted play-by-play announcer for Duke University men's basketball and football teams. Harris, a native of Albemarle, North Carolina attended North Carolina State University for two years before leaving college to work for Goodyear. He later returned to his hometown for a job selling insurance, where he began working part-time for WZKY, in 1967.

Fred Snowden was the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Arizona from 1972 to 1982. He compiled a record of 167-108 and led Arizona to the NCAA tournament twice, in 1976 and 1977, getting as far as the Elite Eight in 1976 before losing to UCLA. (Source: Arizona Daily Wildcat, 10/21/03) Snowden was the first black coach of a major college basketball team. (Source: various, including New York Times obituary, 1/19/94 and Tucson Citizen, 10/31/03).

William Henry Harrison "Tippy" Dye is a noted former college athlete, coach, and athletic director in the United States. As a basketball head coach, Dye led the University of Washington to their only NCAA Final Four appearance. As an athletic director, Dye helped build the University of Nebraska football dynasty. Dye entered the Ohio State University in 1933 and became a star three-sport athlete. He earned three varsity letters as a football quarterback in 1934, …

Floyd S. Stahl (July 18 1899 - July 15 1996) was an American collegiate athletic coach, serving in many coaching and administrative positions at Harvard University and the Ohio State University. Stahl was the head coach of the Ohio State baseball team from 1933 to 1938. During this same period Stahl was the backfield coach for the Ohio State football team under head coach Francis Schmidt. In 1939 Stahl joined the staff at Harvard.

Joel "Jack" Nagle was the head coach of the Marquette University men’s basketball team from 1953-58. Nagle was educated at Marquette and lettered in both the 1938-39 and 1939-40 seasons, as a reserve guard on the team. Following graduation, Nagle served in the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) from 1940-44. After leaving the military, Nagle was named an assistant coach at Marquette under his former coach, William "Bill" Chandler, and later under Fred "Tex" Winter.