Lute Olson
Robert "Lute" Olson (born September 22, 1934 in Mayville, North Dakota) is the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The 2004–05 season is his 22nd season there. Prior to his tenure with the Arizona Wildcats, Olson coached the University of Iowa and Long Beach State basketball teams. Olson has been voted Pac-10 Coach of the Year seven times. He has made 5 Final Four appearances, one of which in 1997 his team went on to win the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. During that 1997 March Madness tournament, his team accomplished the unprecedented and unequaled feat of beating three number one seeds in the same tournament. Lute Olson often is able to recruit players with enormous talent, many of whom have gone on to impressive careers in the NBA. In 2002, Lute Olson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
LinkLute Olson biography on the University of Arizona Athletics website
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