The History Sooner Coaches
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TTHEHE HHISTORYISTORY HALL OF FAMER BRUCE DRAKE 159 THE HISTORY SOONER COACHES D.C. HALL BRUCE DRAKE All-Americans: BOB STEVENS Jimmy McNatt (1939, ’40) Seasons: 1 (1908) Seasons: 17 (1939-1955) Seasons: 5 (1963-1967) Gerald Tucker (1943, ’47) OU Record: 4-3 (.571) OU Record: 200-182 (.520) Allie Paine (1944) OU Record: 46-79 (.368) Year Record Paul Courty (1948, ’49) Year Record BENNIE OWEN 1938-39 12-9 Lester Lane (1955) 1962-63 12-13 1939-40 12-7 1963-64 7-18 Seasons: 13 (1909-1921) Conference Titles: 1940-41 6-12 Big Six (1938, ’39, ’42, ’44, ’47) 1964-65 8-17 OU Record: 113-49 (.698) 1965-66 11-14 1941-42 11-7 Big Seven (1949) Year Record 1942-43 18-9 1966-67 8-17 1908-09 3-3 1943-44 15-8 DOYLE PARRACK 1944-45 12-13 All-Americans: 1909-10 8-0 Don Sidle (1967) 1910-11 1-5 1945-46 11-10 Seasons: 7 (1956-1962) 1911-12 7-2 1946-47 24-7 OU Record: 71-97 (.423) 1912-13 8-0 1947-48 13-9 Year Record JOHN MacLEOD 1913-14 7-1 1948-49 14-10 1955-56 4-19 Seasons: 6 (1968-1973) 1914-15 7-5 1949-50 12-10 1956-57 8-15 OU Record: 90-69 (.567) 1915-16 19-7 1950-51 14-10 1957-58 13-10 1916-17 13-8 1951-52 7-17 1958-59 15-10 Year Record 1917-18 11-1 1952-53 8-13 1959-60 14-11 1967-68 13-13 1918-19 12-0 1953-54 8-13 1960-61 10-15 1968-69 7-19 1919-20 9-7 1954-55 3-18 1961-62 7-17 1969-70 19-9 1920-21 8-10 1970-71 19-8 1971-72 14-12 All-Americans: 1972-73 18-8 Ernest Lambert (1910) All-Americans: Don Sidle (1968) HUGH McDERMOTT Seasons: 17 (1922-1938) LES LANE OU Record: 185-106 (.636) Seasons: None (Lane was hired April, 6, Year Record 1973, but died Sept. 5, 1973, before ever 1921-22 9-9 coaching at game at OU. He was 41.) 1922-23 6-12 1923-24 15-3 1924-25 10-8 JOE RAMSEY 1925-26 11-4 Seasons: 2 (1974-1975) 1926-27 12-5 OU Record: 31-21 (.596) 1927-28 18-0 1928-29 13-2 Year Record 1929-30 6-12 1973-74 18-8 1930-31 10-8 1974-75 13-13 1931-32 9-5 1932-33 12-5 All-Americans: 1933-34 10-8 Alvan Adams (1974, ’75) 1934-35 9-9 1935-36 9-8 DAVE BLISS 1936-37 12-4 1937-38 14-4 Seasons: 5 (1976-1980) 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) Big Six (1929) Conference Titles: Big Eight (1979) Seventeen-year OU mentor Hugh McDermott coached four All-Americans in the 1920s and 1930s (Vic Holt, Thomas Churchill, Bruce Drake and Bud Browning). Drake went on to coach OU for 17 years himself and is in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. 160 OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE • 2007-08 THE HISTORY SOONER COACHES BILLY TUBBS Seasons: 14 (1981-1994) OU Record: 333-132 (.716) Year Record 1980-81 9-18 1981-82 22-11 1982-83 24-9 1983-84 29-5 1984-85 31-6 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) KELVIN SAMPSON Seasons: 12 (1995-2006) OU Record: 279-109 (.719) Year Record 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 Billy Tubbs coached the Sooners to four Big Eight Kelvin Sampson owns OU’s best career winning regular season titles, three Big Eight Tournament crowns percentage (.719), coached it to the 2005 Big 12 title, to 2001-02 31-5 and to the 1988 national championship game. three Big 12 Tournament crowns and to the 2002 Final Four. 2002-03 27-7 2003-04 20-11 2004-05 25-8 2005-06 20-9 All-Americans: Oklahoma Assistant Coaches (Since 1955) Ryan Minor (1995, ’96) Mike Anderson ......................... 1981-94 John Grayson ...........................1955-56 Jason Rabedeaux ..................... 1995-99 Eduardo Najera (2000) Doug Ash.................................. 1976-80 Charlie Harrison .............................1976 Joe Ramsey .............................. 1972-73 Hollis Price (2002, ’03) Rod Barnes .....................................2007 Jack Herron ....................................1962 Roger Raper (G.A.) ................... 1990-91 Conference Titles: Ben Betts .............................2007- Jack Herron, Jr. (G.A.) ......................1976 Bennie Seltzer ..........................1998-06 Big 12 (2005) Allen Boyd (G.A.) ......................1988-89 Bob Hoffman ............................2004-06 Jim Shaw.................................. 2000-04 Johnny Carter ...........................1981-82 Jim Kerwin ............................... 1985-90 Charlie Spoonhour .........................1975 Bobby Champagne ...................1995-97 Ray Lopes .............................1995-2002 Gordon Stauffer ........................1963-66 JEFF CAPEL Mark Cline ............................2007- John MacLeod ................................1967 Oronde Taliaferro ..................2008- Seasons: 1 (2006-07) Bud Cronin ............................... 1965-69 Ray McCallum .......................... 2004-06 Ray Thurmond ..........................1968-71 OU Record: 16-15 (.516) Larry Dunaway ...............................1974 Mike Mims ............................... 1983-94 Jimmy Tubbs ............................ 2003-04 Eddie Evans .............................. 1974-75 Mike Newell ............................. 1981-84 Tommy Tubbs ........................... 1991-92 Year Record Les Fertig (G.A.)........................ 1978-80 Darrell Pattillo ................................1994 John Underwood ......................1977-80 2006-07 16-15 John Floyd ......................................1962 Dennis Price ............................. 1970-73 Paul Geymann ..........................1957-61 Jay Price .........................................1993 2007-08 • OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 161 THE HISTORY FACILITIES TIMELINE GYMNASIUM 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. BUILDING’S FIRST GAME OU 37, Oklahoma A&M 19 (Dec. 7, 1907) Gymnasium ARMORY OPENED IN 1919 The brick R.O.T.C. Armory, completed in the spring of 1919, took the place of the Gymna- sium 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. Armory in 1919 Field House construction FIELD HOUSE OPENED IN 1928 Home of the men’s basketball team from 1928 through 1975, the OU Field House in 1928 Field House (now named after 1910s Sooner standout center Howard McCasland) saw 11 different Oklahoma All-Americans grace its court, in- cluding would-be Hall of Fame coach Bruce Drake. Located immediately 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 fi rst 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. an. 13, 1928) OU’S RECORD IN BUILDING First game in the OU Field House (J 319-153 (.676) 162 OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE • 2007-08 THE HISTORY FACILITIES TIMELINE 1974 Late 1970s Current exterior view from the east Jan. 28, 2006 –– OU defeats No. 4 Texas, 82-72 LLOYD NOBLE CENTER OPENED IN 1975 Named after a prominent Ardmore businessman who was a 15-year OU re- gent, 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. OU’S RECORD IN BUILDING 410-69 (.856) ’s practice gym Bruce Drake Practice Court in the men $17 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, fi lm rooms, training and weight rooms, and coaching offi ces. The men’s and women’s teams both advanced to the Final Four that season. Men’s locker room Weight room f the 1956 U.S. Olympic Team. Drake was his assistant. 2007-08 • OKLAHOMA MEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE 163 THE HISTORY INDIVIDUAL HONORS Thomas Churchill Bud Browning Allie Paine Gerald Tucker Wayman Tisdale Stacey King 1929 1935 1944 1947 1983, ’84, ’85 1989 Six Sooners have earned consensus fi rst-team All-America honors. Wayman Tisdale did it in each of his three seasons at Oklahoma while Stacey King is the most recent selection. ALL-AMERICANS FIRST-TEAM ALL- 1938 Jimmy McNatt, Forward Big Eight CONFERENCE HONOREES 1939 Jimmy McNatt, Forward 1958 Joe King, Forward/Center 1910 * Ernest Lambert, Forward 1940 Jimmy McNatt, Forward 1965 Jim Gatewood, Forward 1928 ** Vic Holt, Center Missouri Valley Marvin Mesch, Guard 1967 Don Sidle, Center 1929 * Thomas Churchill, Forward 1922 Ed Waite, Center 1942 Gerald Tucker, Center 1968 Don Sidle, Center * Bruce Drake, Guard 1924 Floyd McBride, Forward 1943 Gerald Tucker, Center 1970 Garfi eld