Alan LeForce. Photo courtesy of Coastal Carolina athletics

Two reasons to worry about every opposing NCAA coachΒ 

2. Fourteenth-seeded East Tennessee State rocked No. 3 Arizona in a 1992 first-round game in Atlanta. The Buccaneers were coached by Alan LeForce, whose name was often misspelled (LaForce), including in the game program that day. A graduate of Cumberland College, LeForce had been an assistant coach at Furman and head coach at College of Charleston. Four years after beating Arizona, he was fired by ETSU and for 16 years was the women’s basketball coach at Coastal Carolina. He retired in 2013.Β 


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