Three-Time First-Team All-American Wayman Tisdale
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THE HISTORY u Three-Time First-Team All-American Wayman Tisdale 159 OKLAHOMA SOONER COACHES u D.C. HALL u BOB STEVENS Seasons: 1 (1908) Seasons: 5 (1963-1967) OU Record: 4-3 (.571) OU Record: 46-79 (.368) Year Record u BENNIE OWEN 1962-63 12-13 1963-64 7-18 Seasons: 13 (1909-1921) 1964-65 8-17 OU Record: 113-49 (.698) 1965-66 11-14 Year Record 1966-67 8-17 u Bennie Owen u Hugh McDermott u John MacLeod 1908-09 3-3 All-Americans: 1909-10 8-0 Don Sidle (1967) 1910-11 1-5 u BRUCE DRAKE All-Americans: 1911-12 7-2 Jimmy McNatt (1939, ’40) Seasons: 17 (1939-1955) 1912-13 8-0 Gerald Tucker (1943, ’47) u JOHN M AC LEOD OU Record: 200-182 (.520) 1913-14 7-1 Allie Paine (1944) Seasons: 6 (1968-1973) 1914-15 7-5 Year Record Paul Courty (1948, ’49) OU Record: 90-69 (.567) 1915-16 19-7 1938-39 12-9 Lester Lane (1955) 1916-17 13-8 1939-40 12-7 Conference Titles: Year Record 1917-18 11-1 1940-41 6-12 Big Six (1938, ’39, ’42, ’44, ’47) 1967-68 13-13 1918-19 12-0 1941-42 11-7 Big Seven (1949) 1968-69 7-19 1919-20 9-7 1942-43 18-9 1969-70 19-9 1920-21 8-10 1943-44 15-8 u DOYLE PARRACK 1970-71 19-8 1944-45 12-13 1971-72 14-12 All-Americans: Seasons: 1945-46 11-10 7 (1956-1962) 1972-73 18-8 Ernest Lambert (1910) OU Record: 1946-47 24-7 71-97 (.423) All-Americans: 1947-48 13-9 Year Record Don Sidle (1968) u HUGH McDERMOTT 1948-49 14-10 1955-56 4-19 1949-50 12-10 Seasons: 17 (1922-1938) 1956-57 8-15 1950-51 14-10 u LES LANE OU Record: 185-106 (.636) 1957-58 13-10 1951-52 7-17 1958-59 15-10 Seasons: Year Record None (Lane was hired April, 6, 1952-53 8-13 1959-60 14-11 1973, but died Sept. 5, 1973, before ever 1921-22 9-9 1953-54 8-13 1960-61 10-15 coaching at game at OU. He was 41.) THE HISTORY 1922-23 6-12 1954-55 3-18 1961-62 7-17 1923-24 15-3 1924-25 10-8 u JOE RAMSEY 1925-26 11-4 Seasons: 2 (1974-1975) 1926-27 12-5 OU Record: 31-21 (.596) 1927-28 18-0 u Seventeen-year OU mentor Bruce Drake 1928-29 13-2 (left as an OU player and below right) coached Year Record 1929-30 6-12 five All-Americans: Jimmy McNatt , Gerald 1973-74 18-8 1930-31 10-8 Tucker, Allie Paine (below left), Paul Courty 1974-75 13-13 and Lester Lane . Drake is a member of the 1931-32 9-5 Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. All-Americans: 1932-33 12-5 Alvan Adams (1974, ’75) 1933-34 10-8 1934-35 9-9 1935-36 9-8 u DAVE BLISS 1936-37 12-4 Seasons: 5 (1976-1980) 1937-38 14-4 OU Record: 77-62 (.554) All-Americans: Year Record Vic Holt (1928) 1975-76 9-17 Thomas Churchill (1929) 1976-77 18-10 Bruce Drake (1929) 1977-78 14-13 Bud Browning (1935) 1978-79 21-10 Conference Titles: 1979-80 15-12 Missouri Valley (1928) Conference Titles: Big Six (1929) Big Eight (1979) 160 OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL | 2008-09 SOONERS SOONER COACHES u BILLY TUBBS Seasons: 14 (1981-1994) OU Record: 333-132 (.716) Year Record u Billy Tubbs coached the Sooners to four 1980-81 9-18 Big Eight regular season titles, three Big Eight 1981-82 22-11 Tournament crowns and to the 1988 national 1982-83 24-9 championship game. Oklahoma earned 1983-84 29-5 four NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds during 1984-85 31-6 Tubbs’ tenure and his 333 wins are the most in school history. 1985-86 26-9 1986-87 24-10 1987-88 35-4 1988-89 30-6 1989-90 27-5 1990-91 20-15 1991-92 21-9 1992-93 20-12 1993-94 15-13 All-Americans: Wayman Tisdale (1983, ’84, ’85) Harvey Grant (1988) Stacey King (1988, ’89) Mookie Blaylock (1989) Conference Titles: Big Eight (1984, ’85, ’88, ’89) THET HISTORY H E KELVIN SAMPSON u H I Seasons: 12 (1995-2006) S T OU Record: 279-109 (.719) O R Year Record Y 1994-95 23-9 1995-96 17-13 1996-97 19-11 1997-98 22-11 1998-99 22-11 1999-00 27-7 2000-01 26-7 u Kelvin Sampson owns OU’s best career 2001-02 31-5 winning percentage (.719) and claimed 2002-03 27-7 three Big 12 Tournament crowns. 2003-04 20-11 2004-05 25-8 2005-06 20-9 All-Americans: Ryan Minor (1995, ’96) OKLAHOMA ASSISTANT COACHES SINCE 1955 ! Eduardo Najera (2000) Hollis Price (2002, ’03) Mike Anderson ......................... 1981-94 John Grayson ...........................1955-56 Jason Rabedeaux ..................... 1995-99 Conference Titles: Doug Ash.................................. 1976-80 Charlie Harrison .............................1976 Joe Ramsey .............................. 1972-73 Big 12 (2005) Rod Barnes .....................................2007 Jack Herron ....................................1962 Roger Raper (G.A.) ................... 1990-91 Ben Betts .............................2007- Jack Herron, Jr. (G.A.) ......................1976 Bennie Seltzer ..........................1998-06 Allen Boyd (G.A.) ......................1988-89 Bob Hoffman ............................2004-06 Jim Shaw.................................. 2000-04 u JEFF CAPEL Johnny Carter ...........................1981-82 Jim Kerwin ............................... 1985-90 Charlie Spoonhour .........................1975 Seasons: 2 (2006-08) Bobby Champagne ...................1995-97 Ray Lopes .............................1995-2002 Gordon Stauffer ........................1963-66 Mark Cline ............................2007- Oronde Taliaferro ..................2008- OU Record: 39-27 (.591) John MacLeod ................................1967 Bud Cronin ............................... 1965-69 Ray McCallum .......................... 2004-06 Ray Thurmond ..........................1968-71 Year Record Larry Dunaway ...............................1974 Mike Mims ............................... 1983-94 Jimmy Tubbs ............................ 2003-04 2006-07 16-15 Eddie Evans .............................. 1974-75 Mike Newell ............................. 1981-84 Tommy Tubbs ........................... 1991-92 2007-08 23-12 Les Fertig (G.A.)........................ 1978-80 Darrell Pattillo ................................1994 John Underwood ......................1977-80 John Floyd ......................................1962 Dennis Price ............................. 1970-73 Paul Geymann ..........................1957-61 Jay Price .........................................1993 2008-09 | OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL 161 OKLAHOMA FACILITIES TIMELINE GYMNASIUM u OPENED IN 1903 Located at the current site of Oklahoma Memorial Union, the OU Gymnasium was a 100-foot-by-100-foot building divided into eight rooms. The main classroom was 40 feet by 60 feet and was 20 feet high with a gallery that seated 200 people. u Armory in 1919 u Gymnasium ARMORY u OPENED IN 1919 The brick R.O.T.C. Armory, completed in the spring of 1919, took the place of the Gymnasium as site of OU home games. The 300-foot-long structure that is still located immediately northwest of Memorial Stadium featured a large basketball court on the building’s south half with stands for 4,000 spectators. THE HISTORY u Field House construction FIELD HOUSE u Field House in 1928 u OPENED IN 1928 Home of the men’s basketball team from 1928 through 1975, the OU Field House (now named after 1910s Sooner standout center Howard McCasland) saw 11 different Oklahoma All-Americans grace its court, including would-be Hall of Fame coach Bruce Drake. Located immedi- ately north of Memorial Stadium, the building is still the competitive home of the OU volleyball, gymnastics and wrestling programs. BUILDING’S FIRST GAME More than 5,200 fans packed the Field House for its first game (pictured to left), a 45-19 drubbing of Phog Allen’s Kansas team on Jan. 13, 1928. Allen suffered only one worse loss in his 38-year KU coaching career. OU’S RECORD IN BUILDING uFirst game in the OU Field House (Jan. 13, 1928) 319-153 (.676) 162 OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL | 2008-09 SOONERS FACILITIES TIMELINE u 1974 u Late 1970s THE HISTORY u Current exterior view from the east u LLOYD NOBLE CENTER Current interior view u OPENED IN 1975 Named after a prominent Ardmore businessman who was a 15-year OU regent, Lloyd Noble Center opened its doors for basketball on Dec. 1, 1975. The multi-purpose arena was built, at least in part, as an incentive for Oklahoma City high school product Alvan Adams to attend OU. Now seating 12,000 people, the building has proved itself a major home court advantage as the Sooners have won more than 85 percent of their games inside the venue. BUILDING’S FIRST GAME Oklahoma hosted then-Southwest Conference foe Texas on Dec. 1, 1975, and came out on the short end of a 60-55 score. u Bruce Drake Men’s Practice Court OU’S RECORD IN BUILDING u Scoreboard 410-69 (.856) $20.2 MILLION FACELIFT Lloyd Noble Center improvements and additions to the tune of $17.1 million were completed prior to the 2001-02 season. Two full-size practice gyms were added to the building’s south side, as well as new locker rooms, film rooms, training and weight rooms, and coaching offices. The men’s and women’s teams both advanced to the Final Four that season. A $3.1 million high-definition scoreboard and sound system was added prior to the 2007-08 season. u Men’s locker room u Weight room 2008-09 | OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL 163 OKLAHOMA INDIVIDUAL HONORS u Thomas Churchill u Bud Browning u Allie Paine u Gerald Tucker u Wayman Tisdale u Stacey King 1929 1935 1944 1947 1983, ’84, ’85 1989 u Six Sooners have earned consensus first-team All-America honors.