The Aztecs wouldn’t reach the Big Dance again until Steve Fisher took them in 2002. Former San Diego State basketball coach David “Smokey” Gaines has died. Former San Diego State basketball coach David “Smokey” Gaines has died. Most Internet databases listed him at 78 years old, but his family’s Facebook post said he was 80. His 20 victories in the 1981-82 season marked the first time the program had reached that plateau in its Division I era, which began in 1970-71. 5:36 PM, Sep. 05, 2020: That’s the fourth highest in the 99-year history of San Diego State men’s basketball. A native of Detroit, he attended Northeastern High School where he was an all-state selection in 1959. Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD. The Kansas City Chiefs defense came through in the team’s 26-10 win over the New England Patriots while the Green Bay Packers beat the Atlanta Falcons 30-16. He became a full-time assistant the next year. In each of those years, his team qualified for the postseason. The Houston Astros outslug the Oakland Athletics 10-5 while the New York Yankees powered their way to a 9-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of their ALDS. “I knew Smokey from our midwest days, when he was in Detroit,” former Aztecs coach Steve Fisher said. Aztecs extend Dutcher's contract through 2026, Why mid- and low-major college basketball programs are in big trouble without buy games, What a slow 2020 hiring and firing season means for the 2021 coaching carousel, Ryan Mutombo, son of HOFer, commits to Hoyas, Obama, others honor late Thompson at memorial, Alabama lands Davison, ESPN's No. I woulda gotten them if we had the facilities.”. SDSU finished 20-9 overall, 11-5 in Western Athletic Conference play, and competed in the first round of the NIT. Click here, David ‘Smokey’ Gaines, Former SDSU Hoops Coach, Harlem Globetrotter, Dies, Coroner Identifies L.A.-Area Shooting Victim as Allan Roshanski of Vista, DOJ Awards More Than $5.8 Million In Grants To SD County Tribes, Pedestrian Struck, Gravely Injured By Truck Crossing Downtown Street, SD County Reports 224 New COVID-19 Cases As It Awaits State Data, Man Sentenced for Human Smuggling Boating Incident That Killed Two Men, CHP Chase from Orange County to Chula Vista Ends in Suspect’s Fatal Shooting, San Diego’s Filipino American Community Says Its Voice Will Finally Be Heard, Last of 45 New Trolley Cars for Blue Line Extension Arrives in San Diego, Sara Jacobs: ‘The Generals’ Would Help Remove Trump if He Loses, Won’t Leave, ‘Burnt Out’ or Given Boot?
After leading San Diego State to a 30-2 record and a likely No. In 1984-85, the Aztecs went 23-8, 11-5 in WAC action, won the conference tournament and played in the NCAA Tournament. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Just a good friend, a friend for life.”. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Mark is an award-winning sportswriter who has covered 16 Olympics and seven World Cups of soccer. SAN DIEGO -- San Diego State men's basketball coach Brian Dutcher has signed a three-year contract extension through the 2025-26 season. But he was more than that: a Harlem Globetrotter, a pro basketball player, an NBA scout, an athletic director, a nightclub owner, a comedian, a promoter, a single-digit handicap golfer, even a furniture salesman. With their club closed, dancers from the East Hollywood hipster spot Jumbo’s Clown Room form a collective and launch a successful virtual show. “He relates to people,” ESPN announcer Dick Vitale, who hired Gaines as an assistant coach at the University of Detroit Mercy in the 1970s, told the Union-Tribune two years ago. His family announced his death Saturday morning, reportedly from complications with liver and brain cancer. Gaines grew up in inner-city Detroit, one of nine children predominantly raised by his mother, a housekeeper who, he once said, made $5 a day.
— Timothy Gallagher (@TimGall13) September 6, 2020. Dutcher signed the deal following one of the most successful seasons in school history. Cage was the WAC Player of the Year in 1983 and 1984.
The 2019–20 San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball team represented San Diego State University during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Aztecs, led by third-year head coach Brian Dutcher, played their home games at Viejas Arena as members in the Mountain West Conference. As a player, Gaines had a four-year stint (1963-67) with the Harlem Globetrotters, then spent the 1967-68 season competing for the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association. Gaines graduated from LeMoyne College in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. He will be fondly remembered by all of us that were fortunate enough to know him.”.
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The Aztecs went 6-21 in his first season, then had five straight winning seasons culminating in a 23-8 record and a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 1984-85 when Gaines was the Western Athletic Conference coach of the year. He is remembered in San Diego as head coach of the Aztecs from 1979 to 1987 and the first Black coach of an NCAA Division I program in California. He called it “the nation’s fastest-rising basketball program.” He talked about his belief in higher education … “you know, 6-8, 6-9, 6-10.”, Told at his introductory news conference that he’d be mayor if he won 10 games, he quipped: “Let me be governor, I’ll win 12.”, “If I’d come here and been very serious and sat in my office here and didn’t speak,” Gaines told the San Diego Reader in 1983, “then (SDSU) would have had just another program. In 1976-77, the team went 25-4 and won its first-round game in the NCAA Tournament. In California Trump Country, supporters struggling to process the president having COVID-19. The WAC bestowed nine all-conference honors to Gaines’ Aztecs, which included seven first-team designations and three MVP nods. 2 point guard, Rutgers guard McConnell taking medical redshirt, Baylor, Gonzaga slated for December matchup, Sources: Patriot League to nix games in 2020, Women's ex-pro Adams joins Loyola men's staff, Predicting where the top men's basketball prospects will land, Looking at the best potential college basketball nonconference matchups with a local flair, Bubbles, buy games and bid worries: Inside the frenzy to save college basketball's nonconference season, Courtside: Greenberg and Dakich talk to Kentucky's John Calipari about his idea of playing college basketball in August, Same as it ever was?
SAN DIEGO – The story of the best college basketball program in California over the past decade begins with a meeting at Michigan in 1988. The 76ers won because of star power and title hopes. The welcoming environment for the Houston Astros at Dodger Stadium on Monday offered a place for them to unlock their power in their win over Oakland. That’s when current San Diego State head coach …
In his second season, the Titans were ranked as high as No. The Aztecs reached the NCAA tournament in his first season. Gaines was promoted to head coach after Vitale left Detroit in 1977 and amassed a 47-10 record in two seasons before heading west to a SDSU program trying to raise the profile of an athletic department that had elevated to Div. Gaines compiled a 47-10 record in two seasons at Detroit-Mercy before taking the job at San Diego State in 1979, becoming the first Black Division I head coach in the state. His family announced his death Saturday morning, reportedly from complications with liver and brain cancer. The San Diego State Aztecs are the athletic teams that represent San Diego State University (SDSU). After only six wins in his initial season at SDSU, Gaines compiled double-digit wins in six of the next seven years. His career included eight years as head coach of the San Diego State men’s team, said Richard Stern, SDSU Athletics spokesman. That’s the fourth highest in the 99-year history of San Diego State men’s basketball. After SDSU, Gaines briefly coached the San Diego Stingrays in the International Basketball League, worked as a scout for the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and ran a Mission Valley nightclub called “Smokey’s.” He returned to LeMoyne-Owen as basketball coach and athletic director from 2005 to 2008, then spent four years as athletic director for Memphis City Schools before retiring. “I watched from a distance as he developed some great teams at San Diego State led by the likes of Michael Cage and Tony Gwynn. Vitale stepped down following the season and Gaines moved up to the top job. Gaines led the Aztecs men’s basketball program from the 1979-80 season through the 1986-87 season, compiling 112 victories. He was a sixth-round draft pick by his hometown Detroit Pistons but opted to attend a tryout camp for the Harlem Globetrotters, with 117 players vying for four spots.
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No word on repercussions for Jalen Ramsey-Golden Tate incident after Rams-Giants game. His players earned three WAC Player of the Year and three National Basketball Coaches Association All-District honors. Scoring is up in the NFL, and that could be because penalties are down. Gaines, who suffered a stroke in 2018, died from complications of liver and brain cancer, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. You can’t buy the kind of recognition we gained by that.”. In recent years, he shuttled between Memphis and Las Vegas. Vitale hired him in 1973. In 2006, he was inducted into the Harlem Globetrotters’ “Legends” Ring, which honors those who have made a major contribution to the success and development of the organization and exemplify the Harlem Globetrotter’s humanitarian contributions. “He followed the Aztecs long after his coaching days ended and was proud of what San Diego State accomplished. They opened the season 26-0 and were the nation's last undefeated team. NFL: Chiefs lean on defense to beat Patriots in COVID-19-delayed game; Packers beat Falcons. A loyal, dedicated guy.
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