2001, ISBN: 9781156278840

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kevin O'Neill (born January 24, 1957) is an American head coach of the USC Trojans basketball team. His personal webpage is www. coachkohoops.com O'Neill was born in Malone, New York and attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He lettered in basketball for three years in college, 197679, and in Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kevin O'Neill (born January 24, 1957) is an American head coach of the USC Trojans basketball team. His personal webpage is www. coachkohoops.com O'Neill was born in Malone, New York and attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He lettered in basketball for three years in college, 197679, and in 1978 the McGill Redman had a school-record 28 win season and entered the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's basketball championship tournament. He graduated from McGill in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in education, and later earned his master's degree in secondary education from Marycrest College in 1983, where he also served as head coach of the NAIA basketball team for the 198283 season. O'Neill's coaching career began with tenures at North Country Community College (Saranac Lake, New York), Marycrest College (Davenport, Iowa), Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern. During his tenure as the Northwestern coach O'Neill is most notably remembered for a game with Indiana where the rowdy Northwestern faithful chanted "Hoosier Daddy" (a play on "Who's Your Daddy?") at opposing coach Bob Knight. Of course this did not sit well with Knight as he and O'Neill got into it during the contest. However all was settled under a practice gym basket well after the game as ESPN camera crews caught the coaches talking their issues out. He would eventually became an assistant coach under Jeff Van Gundy with the New York Knicks. In 2001, he joined the Detroit Pistons under head coach Rick Carlisle. As a university coach at Marquette, O'Neill led the Warriors to two 20+ win season, two NCAA tournament appearances, and a Great Midwest Conference Championship. O'Neill played a prominent role in the 1994 Oscar-nominated documentary, Hoop Dreams. The McGill Universit. More: Books, , Delaware-Fighting-Blue-Hens-Mens-Basketball-Coaches~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<