Uw-Milwaukee Panthers Men's Basketball Coaches - Bruce Pearl, Rob Jeter, Russ Rebholz, Kirk Earlywine, Bob Gottlieb, Saul Phillips, Ron Hunter (Paperback)

Chapters: Bruce Pearl, Rob Jeter, Russ Rebholz, Kirk Earlywine, Bob Gottlieb, Saul Phillips, Ron Hunter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bruce Dean-Fredrick Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the University of Tennessee men's team, the Volunteers. He is a graduate of Boston College, where he obtained his first position as an assistant basketball coach. He is the first coach to lead the Volunteers to a national #1 ranking. Pearl, who is Jewish, also served as the head coach for the Maccabi USA basketball team in the 2009 World Maccabiah Games. A native of Boston, Pearl attended Sharon High School in Sharon, Massachusetts and is a 1982 graduate of Boston College, where he served as the manager of the men's basketball team. He and his ex-wife, Kimberly, have two daughters, Jacqui and Leah, and two sons, Steven, who is on the Tennessee basketball team, and Michael. Before coming to Tennessee, Pearl was the head coach at Milwaukee and, prior to that, at Southern Indiana, where he won a Division II national championship. He also served as an assistant coach at the University of Iowa under then-head coach Tom Davis. Among his accolades, Pearl is the second-fastest NCAA coach to reach 300 victories, and needed only 382 games to reach this mark (Roy Williams, the current coach at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, needed 370 games at the University of Kansas to reach this milestone). It should be noted, however, that all of Williams' victories came at the Division I level, whereas a portion of Pearl's victories came in Division II, and contributed to his rise to the Division I ranks. Against division rival Kentucky and in-state rival Vanderbilt, Pearl chooses to wear a brightly color...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=427976