Denny Crum Dies at Age 86; Won 2 NCAA Titles as Louisville MCBB HC

Legendary College of Louisville head males’s college basketball coach Denny Crum died Tuesday at the age of 86.

Louisville launched the news Tuesday and honored the 2-time national championship-winning coach in the technique.

Crum spent a outstanding 30 seasons as the Cardinals’ head coach from 1971 by 2001, leading them to a national championship in both 1980 and 1986.

After taking part in collegiately at UCLA, Crum frolicked as the head coach at Los Angeles Pierce Junior College and as an assistant to UCLA sooner than getting his famous fracture at Louisville.

All the design in which by his three a long time with the Cardinals, Crum posted a 675-295 file, finishing below .500 in a season handiest three cases.

As well to 2 national championships, Crum took Louisville to the Closing Four six cases, including a outing in his first season at the helm.

Crum became once named the Sporting Data Coach of the Year in both 1983 and 1986, peaceable six convention coach of the yr awards, won 15 regular-season convention titles and claimed 11 convention tournament titles as the Cardinals’ head coach.

Per Louisville athletics, Crum is one in every of handiest 14 head coaches to secure a pair of Division I national titles in males’s basketball, and handiest 5 coaches occupy ever coached in additional Closing Fours than him.

In honor of his famed profession, Crum became once inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Standing in 1994 and the College Basketball Hall of Standing in 2006.

Following his retirement from instructing, Crum frolicked as a particular assistant to the College of Louisville’s president and had a extremely successful radio expose on Fox Sports in Kentucky from 2004 to 2014.

The College of Louisville named its home court docket at Freedom Hall “Denny Crum Court docket” in 2007 and kept the title when it opened the KFC Yum! Center in 2010, which methodology Crum’s title continues to reside on at Louisville.