19 Facts About Ed Jucker

Edwin Louis Jucker was an American basketball and baseball coach and college athletics administrator.

Ed Jucker led the Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball program to consecutive national titles, winning the NCAA basketball tournament in 1961 and 1962.

Ed Jucker was the head coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team from 1954 to 1960 while serving as an assistant coach for the basketball team.

Ed Jucker spent two seasons coaching in the professional ranks, leading the Cincinnati Royals of the National Basketball Association from 1967 to 1969.

Ed Jucker served as the athletic director at Rollins College from 1981 to 1983.

Ed Jucker attended the University of Cincinnati as an undergraduate student and played on the school's basketball teams during the 1938,1939, and 1940 seasons.

Also, while an undergraduate, Ed Jucker became a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Ed Jucker was a professional baseball prospect until he decided to start coaching instead of trying to make it into Major League Baseball.

Ed Jucker's coaching career began at Batavia High in Clermont County, Ohio, east of Cincinnati.

Ed Jucker returned to the University of Cincinnati in 1953 as assistant basketball coach and baseball mentor.

In 1960, Ed Jucker was promoted to coach the basketball team after George Smith had accepted an offer become the program's athletic director.

Ed Jucker later stated his pride of his team and the dynasty they had created for themselves.

The fifth and final season for Ed Jucker saw them lose twelve games.

Ed Jucker left the program after the 1965 season, citing the effects the job had on his family.

Ed Jucker agreed to coach the Spain national team from 1967 but changed his mind when he received offers from the National Basketball Association with Cincinnati Royals and the American Basketball Association with the Indiana Pacers.

Ed Jucker then went to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where he built the school's basketball program into a national contender in NCAA Division II.

Ed Jucker died of prostate cancer on Callawassie Island, South Carolina in 2002 at age 85.

Cincinnati honored Jucker by inducting him into their athletics Hall of Fame in 1977.

Ed Jucker is the only non-active coach with multiple NCAA Division I championships to not be a member of either the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame or the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.