Dale Brown, the former LSU men’s basketball coach who helped make the Tigers into a national contender, died on Friday at 90 years old.
Brown was the coach at LSU from 1972 to 1997, where he finished with 448 victories. During his time in Baton Rouge, the Tigers made it to the NCAA Tournament 13 times, while winning the SEC four times. The Tigers also made it to the Final Four in both 1981 and 1986, and was named the national coach of the year in 1981.
He is still the all-time wins leader at LSU, and was able to coach Shaquille O’Neal in college.
On Wednesday, he was the receipient of the John Wooden Award Legends of Coaching Award in honor of everything he did for the game of basketball. Brown and Wooden were very good friends during their days of coaching basketball
During his career, he has been inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, and the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame.
Before he got to LSU, he was a college assistant at Washington State and Utah State, and was a high school coach before that.
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