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Bucknellbisonfan21
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Bucknellbisonfan21
08-29-17 10:50 AM - Post#232465    

http://brownbears.com/sports/m-baskbl/2017- 18/rele...
Bison137
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Bison137
08-29-17 11:57 AM - Post#232468    

Happy to see the announcement. He was hired over four months ago, and I was getting worried when there was no announcement for so long. Was afraid the same visa problem would arise that cost him the Bucknell job a few years ago.

Congrats Bryson.



Bison89
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08-29-17 01:39 PM - Post#232470    

Congratulations, Bryson!

The Bucknell coaching tree grows and grows every year. It might be interesting to discuss who are the top 3 basketball coaches who have graduated from Bucknell. Any ideas?
New season, new team, new dream . . .

Bison89
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Bison89
08-29-17 01:39 PM - Post#232471    

Congratulations, Bryson!

The Bucknell coaching tree grows and grows every year. It might be interesting to discuss who are the top 3 basketball coaches who have graduated from Bucknell. Any ideas?

Personally, I would list the following:
1. A coach who lead HC to the national championship.
2. A coach who lead a D-III school to the national championship and a D-I school to a couple of wins in the NCAA Tournament.
New season, new team, new dream . . .

Bison137
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Bison137
08-29-17 02:03 PM - Post#232472    

  • Bison89 Said:
Congratulations, Bryson!

The Bucknell coaching tree grows and grows every year. It might be interesting to discuss who are the top 3 basketball coaches who have graduated from Bucknell. Any ideas?

Personally, I would list the following:
1. A coach who lead HC to the national championship.
2. A coach who lead a D-III school to the national championship and a D-I school to a couple of wins in the NCAA Tournament.




How about one who led Villanova to a national championship.



BisonRoadWarrior
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BisonRoadWarrior
08-29-17 02:59 PM - Post#232474    

And just like that, the list is complete. Quick work.

Bison89
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Bison89
08-29-17 04:34 PM - Post#232476    

I agree with BRW, that is probably about it. Are there any that we missed?
New season, new team, new dream . . .

Bison137
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Bison137
08-29-17 06:06 PM - Post#232478    

  • Bison89 Said:
I agree with BRW, that is probably about it. Are there any that we missed?





None in the same category. Other Bucknell grads who coached D1 programs include Ted Woodward '86 (Maine for ten years), Bill Courtney '92 (Cornell for six years), and Tom Schneider '69 (Lehigh 2 years, Penn 4 years, Loyola 4 years). Also Malcolm Musser '18 coached the Bison for 13 season before and during WW2.



Bison137
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Bison137
08-29-17 06:55 PM - Post#232479    

Following up on the above, Bison alums who have been D1 assistant coaches (other than the ones on the head coaches list) include:

Tommy Thompson
Al Leslie
Dan Bowen
Charles Lee
Abe Badmus
John Griffin
Bryson Johnson
Others?

And ones who have been on D1 staffs in other capacities:

Donald Brown
Dom Hoffman
Others?


Wouldn't be surprised to see Kevin Bettencourt added to the D1 list at some point. Thus far at Endicott College, his record is 66-24 (.733) - and 43-11 (.796) in-conference.



DoCtoR62
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08-29-17 07:11 PM - Post#232480    

Mark Lezanic and Bobby Woollum from the Woollum years.
bison63
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08-30-17 09:25 AM - Post#232486    

Apparently prior to the 1908-09 season BU was coached by "student coaches." Presumably, those coaches came from among the players themselves. Where would the "student coaches" of 1900-01 fit on the list in view of their accomplishment (though only recognized retroactively)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900%E2%80%9301_ Buck...
Bison137
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Bison137
08-30-17 10:20 AM - Post#232492    

Never knew that. National champs of 1900-01. If there had been a Big East then, we could have been in it. .

Starting with that 1900-01 season, here are the Bison team records with student coaches:

12-1
12-2
10-0
7-5
8-1
10-2
10-1
12-0

Then they got their first non-student coach and their W-L pct started sliding.




Bison89
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Bison89
08-30-17 11:03 AM - Post#232495    

  • Bison137 Said:
Never knew that. National champs of 1900-01. If there had been a Big East then, we could have been in it. .




Where is the banner???
New season, new team, new dream . . .

BisonRoadWarrior
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08-30-17 12:13 PM - Post#232498    

The Road to the 1900-01 Retroactively Computer-Calculated National Championship

Dec 14: @Bucknell 40 Milton 6
Jan 12: @Bucknell 28 Quaker City 10
Jan 19: @Bucknell 24 Wyoming Seminary 10
Jan 26: @Bucknell 33 Dickinson 9
Feb 1: @Williamsport 8 Bucknell 5
Feb 5: @Bucknell 32 Penn 9
Feb 8: Bucknell 30 @Gettysburg 11
Feb 9: Bucknell 28 @Dickinson 16
Feb 12: @Bucknell 16 Williamsport 4
Feb 15: Bucknell 10 @Pittston 8
Feb 16: Bucknell 24 @Wyoming Seminary 8
Feb 22: @Bucknell 18 Bloomsburg 15
Mar 11: @Bucknell 54 Gettysburg 11
Old Bison
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08-30-17 01:05 PM - Post#232501    

Wow...Feb 1 game was a defensive struggle! If I remember correctly (i'm Old Bison ya know)Wport had George Mikan's grandfather. Bison 89 - don't ask me if I'm joking again!
Bison89
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08-30-17 01:15 PM - Post#232502    

  • Old Bison Said:
Wow...Feb 1 game was a defensive struggle! If I remember correctly (i'm Old Bison ya know)Wport had George Mikan's grandfather. Bison 89 - don't ask me if I'm joking again!



LOVE IT!
New season, new team, new dream . . .

Bison137
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Bison137
08-30-17 01:53 PM - Post#232503    

  • Old Bison Said:
Wow...Feb 1 game was a defensive struggle! If I remember correctly (i'm Old Bison ya know)Wport had George Mikan's grandfather. Bison 89 - don't ask me if I'm joking again!




Don.t know about Mikan's grandfather, but there is a good chance that Christy Mathewson played for that Bison team. He attended BU from 1898-1901, and he definitely played basketball as well as football and baseball. He left school in the spring of 1901 to play for the Giants, winning 20 games as a 20-year old rookie, but he was in school for much of that basketball season.



Bison54
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Bison54
08-30-17 03:47 PM - Post#232504    

National Champions of Pennsylvania. Except for the Seminarians in Wyoming (where the Bison roam)

BisonRoadWarrior
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BisonRoadWarrior
08-30-17 04:00 PM - Post#232505    

  • Bison54 Said:
National Champions of Pennsylvania. Except for the Seminarians in Wyoming (where the Bison roam)

That's in Pennsylvania, too. https://www.wyomingseminary.org/
Old Bison
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08-30-17 06:29 PM - Post#232508    

You forgot Steve O'Brien '80 (backcourt mate of Pat Flannery) who had a brief stint as GA under Tom Davis at BC in '80-'81 on a staff that included Kevin Macke (Pacers), Bruce Pearl and Jack Powers (Boston legend). BC lost the following year to Phi Slamma Jamma in the E8
Bison137
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Bison137
10-24-18 09:27 AM - Post#263406    


I just noticed that Bryson left Brown after one season as a coach and has now returned to GMU as a graduate manager. Working on a doctorate in higher education.

The spot he took, at least indirectly, had been occupied by Ryan Frazier, Don't know where Ryan went.



BisonRoadWarrior
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10-24-18 12:52 PM - Post#263415    

In other news, Pat Flannery's son, Jesse, is now a graduate assistant at VCU. (Pardon if that's a repeat.)
Bison137
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Bison137
10-24-18 01:51 PM - Post#263419    

  • BisonRoadWarrior Said:
In other news, Pat Flannery's son, Jesse, is now a graduate assistant at VCU. (Pardon if that's a repeat.)





VCU's head coach, of course, is Mike Rhoades, the player who led Pat Flannery's Lebanon Valley team to the D3 national championship. Donald Brown is also on their staff.






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