Photos: Arizona Wildcats basketball coach Lute Olson
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Lute Olson was head basketball coach at the University of Arizona from 1983-2008. He was voted Pac-10 Coach of the Year seven times, made five Final Four appearances and won the 1997 NCAA championship.
In 2002, Olson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.Β
Olson died on Thursday, August 27, 2020.
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Star columnist Greg Hansen tweeted that Olson βis in the fight of his life.β KVOA reported that Olson is receiving hospice care.
Pac-12 Network will air a tribute to the late Lute Olson on Wednesday, which will feature Sean Miller, Jason Terry and MattΒ Muehlebach, among others.Β
All summer long, Star columnist Greg Hansen has been counting down Tucson's Top 100 Sports Figures of the last 100 years. Today: No. 1, Lute Olson.
More information
- Timeline: Lute Olson's Hall of Fame life, career
- Arizona's quotable coach: Here are the 10 best Lute Olson lines of all time
- Greg Hansen: Lute Olson made smart hires, surrounded himself with winners
- 'The best': Lute Olson, Arizona's Hall of Fame basketball coach, dies at 85
- Greg Hansen: By staying in Tucson, thriving, Lute Olson made us all winners
- Lute Olson remembered
- 'What more can 2020 do to me?' Wildcats sueprfan mourns loss of Lute Olson, end of an era
- Greg Hansen: Arizona's greatest player says farewell to Lute Olson, who put Wildcats on map
- Hansen's Sunday Notebook: Every signature, letter showed Lute Olson was man of the people
- It's official: Brandon Williams moving on from Arizona Wildcats
- Lute's best wins: Salim saves Cats (again), UA stops Reggie Miller and Sean Elliott sets scoring mark
- Freshman Daniel Batcho to miss at least half of season; UA refuses to release notice of allegations
- UA will hold public tribute to Lute Olson on Sept. 12 at McKale Center
- What to know about Sunday's Lute Olson tribute in McKale Center
- UA to honor Lute Olson at halftime of Thursday night's game against Stanford
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