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Karl Hobbs George Washington Pennsylvania Assistant to Played for Calhoun at Calhoun at Northeastern and Connecticut. was his assistant at The Six Degrees Connecticut.

Bob McKillop Davidson Assistant to Of March’s Mayhem Tevester Biedenbach at Anderson Davidson. Jackson State While all coaches can be traced to , we didn’t Howie Assistant to Dickenman Durham at . have the time, patience or page size to present that. Instead, we tried to see Central Connecticut State how many of the 65 coaches in this NCAA tournament could be connected Assistant to to each other, going back just one generation, and using college connec- Calhoun at Virginia Connecticut. Played for and assistant to tions only — not NBA or USA Basketball. Disclaimer: These are not all Calhoun at Northeastern; possible links, and this is not necessarily a direct family tree, with mentor assistant at Connecticut. begetting protégé.

Reporting by Bonnie Berkowitz Link between coaches Graphic by Laura Stanton KEY (color is to help distinguish between different coaching trees) Eddie or Coach is not in tournament, Biedenbach Texas but is a link to another coach Hugh UNC Asheville Assistant to Biedenbach Durham Tennessee Assistant to at Davidson and to Williams at Ohio State. Assistant to Davis Durham at Georgia. Vanderbilt at College, Assistant to Williams at Kansas; Stanford and . played for and was assistant to Roy Williams Keady at Purdue. North Carolina Assistant to Smith at North Carolina. Memphis Texas A&M Gary Assistant to Gillispie was Self’s Williams Brown at assistant at Tulsa Maryland Kansas. and Illinois. Assistant to Davis at Maryland (freshman team), Lafayette and Purdue . Played for Smith at Played for and was assistant North Carolina. to Keady at Purdue; assistant to Weber at Southern Illinois. Oral Roberts Connecticut, 1986-present Eddie’s son and a Illinois Northeastern, 1972-86 Kansas player for him at Assistant to Sutton Assistant to Keady Assistant to Oklahoma State. at Arkansas. at Western Tom Davis Southern Illinois Sutton at Assistant to Self and Purdue. Drake, 2003-present Spent three years Oklahoma State at Oral Roberts. Iowa, 1986-99 and graduate on Weber’s staff Stanford, 1982-86 Played for Iba at assistant to at Illinois and Boston College, 1977-82 Wright State Oklahoma A&M. Brown at Kansas. Army Southern Illinois. Lafayette, 1971-77 Graduate assistant Ronnie Arrow Player and A Few to Crews at Texas A&M Corpus Christi assistant to Knight at Evansville. North Carolina, 1961-97 Close friend of Floyd, who steered Arrow Indiana. Solid Played for Iba at USC Oklahoma A&M. Assistant to toward the Corpus Duke Christi job. Roots Oklahoma A&M (now Haskins at Texas Tech Played for Knight Oklahoma State), Texas-El Paso. Iba was a long- at Army and was Most of this year's 1934-70 time friend his assistant at tournament coaches Colorado, 1933-34 and influence. Indiana. can be connected to Maryville (Mo.) Teachers Notre Dame branches from these College, 1929-33 Jack Seth Assistant to eight longtime head UNLV Creighton Krzyzewski at Hartman Assistant to Assistant to Al LoBalbo Greenberg coaches (none of them Played for Iba Virginia Tech Duke. Player is in the tournament Hartman at Kruger at Assistant to and assistant tana at Oklahoma. Played for Morgan Mon Kansas State. Kansas State. Knight at Army. this year). e at Wootten to Wootten at cot LoBalbo at Schools and college ath DeMatha. He Fairleigh head-coaching years: o t t Dickinson. an Jud Indiana st si s Heathcote Graduate assistant to a s Michigan State, 1976-95 a Heathcote at Michigan State. w Montana, 1971-76 Michigan State y r Assistant to Heathcote e Assistant to m at Michigan State. o Heathcote at g t Don's son coached n Michigan State. Gonzaga o Syracuse, 1976- Gonzaga. Niagara M Was Dan Monson's present Assistant to assistant at Gonzaga. Wootten at Mike DeMatha. Rollie Marquette Montgomery Massimino Stanford, 1986-2004 Assistant to Heathcote and Izzo Arkansas Northwood, 2005-present Montana, 1978-1986 at Michigan State and to Willard at Western Assistant to Izzo Kentucky and . Cleveland State, 1996-2003 at Michigan State. UNLV, 1992-94 Holy Cross Villanova, 1973-92 Florida Stony Brook, 1969-71 Brendan Assistant to Malone Boeheim at Played for Assistant to Syracuse. Pitino at Virginia Commonwealth Boeheim at Providence; Assistant to Donovan at CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER Syracuse. was assistant Marshall and Florida. at Kentucky. Boston College Assistant to Malone Kentucky at Rhode Island. Assistant to Pitino at Kentucky. Louisville Assistant to Boeheim UCLA Pittsburgh at Syracuse. Assistant to Jerry Assistant to Howland Herb Pimm at UC- at Pittsburgh; worked Sendek Santa Barbara. with him under Pimm. Stanford Arizona State Oregon Assistant to Graduate assistant to Assistant to Mont- COACHES WE COULDN’T CONNECT Montgomery Pitino at Providence gomery at Stanford. Xavier at Stanford. Barry and his assistant at Assistant to Collier Reggie Theus Kentucky. Sendek at Miami Assistant to New Mexico State (Ohio) and Montgomery Assistant to Pitino N.C. State. at Stanford. at Louisville. Nevada Tony Bennett Washington State Albany Assistant to Utah State Played for father Worked under Johnson Ohio State Assistant to Charlie Coles at Wisconsin-Green Bay and Brian Beaury at Assistant to at Nevada. Played for Collier and Montgomery Miami (Ohio) was his assistant at Wisconsin Division II College Massimino at was his assistant at Villanova. at Montana. Assistant to and Washington State. of Saint Rose. Butler; assistant to Sendek at Coles at Miami (Ohio). Villanova Miami Assistant to Butler (Ohio). Massimino at Assistant to Villanova and UNLV. Collier and Matta at Butler. Mike Johnny Jones Georgia Tech Belmont Gillespie Sr. North Texas Winthrop Assistant to Student assistant Florida A&M Played for and was Assistant to John Lappas at Old Dominion to at Played for Ray assistant to Dale Kresse at College Villanova. Played for and was Weber State Tennessee. Meyer at DePaul. Brown at LSU. of Charleston. assistant to Montgom- Assistant to Morrill ery at Montana and at Colorado State was his graduate and Utah assistant at Stanford. State.

Jeff Neubauer John Eastern Kentucky Arizona Long Beach State Brigham Young Wisconsin Thompson III Assistant to John Regularly attended Assistant to John Assistant to Steve Assistant to Bill Georgetown Beilein at 's Masi at UC Cleveland at Cofield and Steve Played for and CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS: Matt Bonesteel, Marc Carig, Steven Goff, Richmond and UCLA practices as a Riverside. Brigham Young. Yoder at assistant to Pete Thomas Heleba, Adam Kilgore, David Larimer, Kathy Orton, Camille West Virginia. high school coach. Wisconsin. Carril at Princeton.

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