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Jerry Esther Tarkanian (August 8, 1930 – February 11, 2015) was an American basketball coach. He coached college basketball for 31 seasons over five decades at three schools. He spent the majority of his career coaching with the UNLV Runnin' Rebels , leading them four times to the Final Four of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ...
Jerry Tarkanian led UNLV to the NCAA Division I Tournament Championship in 1990 and the NCAA Division I Men's Final Four in 1977, 1987, 1990 and 1991. Jerry Tarkanian was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Rollie Massimino was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Tarkanian turned UNLV basketball into a national brand when he arrived in the 1970s. And he did so while navigating the sometimes dangerous world of old-school, mob-influenced Las Vegas.
Tarkanian was born in Redlands, California, the third of four children.He is the son of Jerry Tarkanian, a prominent University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) basketball coach, and Lois Tarkanian (née Huter), [4] a Las Vegas City Councilwoman, educator of children with disabilities, administrator, and a co-founder for California's first private school for the deaf.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- He couldn't stop fighting the NCAA any more than he could give up chewing towels courtside. Jerry Tarkanian built a basketball dynasty in the desert, but it was his decades-long ...
On March 23, 1973, UNLV hired former Long Beach State head coach Jerry Tarkanian to lead the program. Tarkanian's success was immediate and ultimately led him to enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1977, just seven years after joining Division I, The Rebels made the Final Four with a squad nicknamed the "Hardway ...
Establishing the pipeline. In 1977, a Nike consultant named Sonny Vaccaro offered then-UNLV head coach Jerry Tarkanian free sneakers and a $2,000 contract if he would make sure his teams wore the ...
The 1989–90 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the 1989–90 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.They were led by 17th-year head coach Jerry Tarkanian.