On the way to becoming head coach of the US Under-19 men's basketball team, he earned his first head college coaching job after (*)
He hit a game winning jump shot for Texas Christian to defeat Texas in a key Southwest Conference game in 1986 that would help the Horned Frogs win its first SWC title in fifteen years. After college, this member of the Screen Actors Guild and veteran of TV commercials would become the head basketball coach of a school in New Zealand before becoming an assistant at Los Angeles Valley College, UC-Santa Barbara, Hawaii and for Ben Howland at Northern Arizona. On the way to becoming head coach of the US Under-19 men's basketball team, he earned his first head college coaching job after (*) Ben Howland left to go to UCLA in 2003. For 10 points, what brother of former Army women's basketball coach Maggie, is the current head men's basketball coach at Pittsburgh.
He hit a game winning jump shot for Texas Christian to defeat Texas in a key Southwest Conference game in 1986 that would help the Horned Frogs win its first SWC title in fifteen years.
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