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Apr 4, 2022 · TABLE OF CONTENTS. Al McGuire’s stunning triumph and tearful goodbye at the NCAA basketball finals in Atlanta showed that he is more than a street-corner aphorist, a barroom philosopher, a...
Mar 25, 2024 · Al McGuire (born Sept. 7, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 26, 2001, Milwaukee, Wis.) was an American collegiate basketball coach who was a master at game coaching. McGuire learned the game in the hard school of Queens street basketball. He later played for St. John’s Preparatory School and St. John’s College, both in Brooklyn, and ...
Jan 26, 2001 · Alfred J. "Al" McGuire. Whether he was coaching at Belmont Abbey College or later at Marquette University or doing color commentary for NBC or CBS, Al McGuire had a flair for the dramatic. “Winning is only important in war and surgery,” McGuire quipped in 1975, but he knew better than anyone that coaches are judged by the numbers in the ...
Alfred James McGuire (September 7, 1928 – January 26, 2001) was an American college basketball coach and broadcaster, the head coach at Marquette University from 1964 to 1977. He won a national championship in his final season at Marquette, and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992.
Feb 3, 2022 · Feb 3, 2022. AL McGUIRE was a maverick — a stubborn, funny, fiery, good-hearted, street-smart Irish guy from Queens, New York who from 1964–1977 coached the Marquette University basketball...
Mar 30, 2023 · The occasion brings to mind the late Al McGuire, whose Marquette teams won 79% of their games, including 81 home games in a row. In 1977, in McGuire’s final game as a coach, Marquette won the program’s only national championship. McGuire’s legacy transcends sports.
Jan 27, 2001 · Al McGuire, basketball coach and showman, philosopher and promoter, died Friday in suburban Milwaukee, surprising many who had assumed he’d live forever. He was 72. Larger than life in life,...
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