College men's basketball: Badgers' success in tournament lies in coaching tree - Duluth News Tribune
It will match Kentucky’s hired guns, players who arrive in Lexington more for an audition with the NBA than for a marketing degree, against a Wisconsin team that has aged like fine wine. The debate over the annual construction of Kentucky’s team will rage on. The letters N-C-A-A, as the sanctioning body of this, will be invoked in anger many times. He coached at Wisconsin-Platteville — the court there is named for him — and won four NCAA Division III titles. Bennett was a man so driven that he would often get physically ill before games, and when he caved to the pressure, he was eventually replaced by Ryan, who had revived the program at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After one controversial Marquette win over Wisconsin, a celebrating McGuire got up on the scorer’s table, raised his arms and clenched his fists to the Wisconsin crowd. The stars of that Wisconsin team were 6-foot-11 twins Kim and Kerry Hughes. Majerus, eventually a young McGuire assistant, had tried out as a player at Marquette and was cut because McGuire said “he was terrible. ” As a coach, he validated much of what Wisconsin basketball had, and has, become. Source: www.duluthnewstribune.com
