Conference regular season and conference tournament champion “I wasn't that interested because there were rumors that Long Beach was about to go on NCAA probation,” Olson said. [59] After a day of speculation fueled by initial reports by Dick Vitale of ESPN,[60] Livengood formally announced Olson's retirement afternoon of October 23. ... 2020 … Born on a farm outside Mayville, North Dakota, on Sept. 22, 1934, Olson led his high school team to the 1952 state championship and was a three-sport athlete at Augsburg College in Minnesota from 1953 to 1956. Olson graduated in 1956 with double major in history and physical education and Olson was awarded the "Augsburg Honors Athlete Award," given annually to the top Augsburg male student-athlete. [23], Olson inherited an Iowa team that had gone 8-16 under Dick Schultz, finishing 10th in the Big Ten and suffered four consecutive losing seasons. Drafted were: Cliff Poindexter (Chicago), his brother Roscoe Poindexter (Boston), All-American Glenn McDonald (1st Round, Boston), Leonard Grey (Seattle) and a year later, Bobby Gross (Portland). Along with the successful players noted above, Olson has 46 NCAA tournament wins, one behind John Wooden and one ahead of Bob Knight. [27][29][30], In the NCAA Semi-Final, Lester injured his knee early in the game, after scoring 10 of Iowa's first 12 points. Updated 1:23 AM ET, Fri August 28, 2020 Head coach Lute Olson of Arizona during the men's Pacific 10 Tournament championship game in 2002. Knope became concerned about "changes in (Olson's) behavior and trouble handling his increasing workload" and advised Olson to retire as a result: Knope said that Olson was "devastated" upon being informed of the MRI results and remained at home in Tucson; Olson has so far declined to comment publicly on his condition.       Division regular season and conference tournament champion [42], In 2003, Olson married Christine Jack Toretti. However, with a #10 regular season ranking, the team was banned from appearing in the NCAA tournament after being put on a 3-year probation mid-season, due to recruiting violations from the Tarkanian era. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox. He is one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time...His legacy will (be) the standard at the University of Arizona for as long as they have basketball. [46], On March 15, 2005, Olson's granddaughter, Julie Brase, was named an assistant coach of the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Olson and Lester spoke with the press before the game and told stories. In 1964 he was hired as varsity head coach at Marina-Huntington Beach High School. Olson's 327 conference victories are most in Pac-10/12 history and he was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2002. First published on August 28, 2020 / 6:14 AM. He spent one season at Long Beach State before going on to coach nine seasons at Iowa. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Olson was 35 years old with 5 children when making the career change from high school to college. [17], Under Olson, the 49ers were ranked as high as #3 behind Coach John Wooden and player Bill Walton's UCLA squad and eventual NCAA Tournament Champion North Carolina State. I love him dearly. © 2020 The Associated Press. Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame coach who turned Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse, has died. "I will miss seeing him at our home games and hearing our crowd yell, 'Lute!'" Nicknamed "The House That Lute Built", Carver-Hawkeye Arena, a facility Olson had envisioned for the future of the University, opened on January 5, 1983 against Michigan State. "[79], Kevin O'Neill, the man originally tapped to replace Olson as Arizona head coach, but who later left the Wildcat program, stated: "I have great respect for Lute Olson. He was 85 years old. All-American Jason Gardner (graduated in 2003), had been the only starting Arizona point guard to not have played any NBA minutes since before Steve Kerr in 1984, prior to Mustafa Shakur and Chris Rodgers in recent years. The unveiling was attended my many former Arizona players as well as Olson's family. Olson's subsequent Arizona teams would be fixtures in the Top 25 for most of the time until the mid-2000s. However, during an April 2008 press conference in which he appeared visibly annoyed and defensive with reporters, Olson announced that O'Neill would never coach at the University of Arizona again.

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