1. Lloyd Eugene Keady was born on May 21,1936 and is an American Hall of Fame basketball coach.
28 Facts About Gene Keady
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Gene Keady is best known for his 25 years serving as the head men's basketball coach at Purdue University in Indiana.
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Gene Keady married his second wife, Patricia, in 1981, and adopted her daughter.
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Gene Keady has been married since 2012 to Kathleen Petrie.
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At the junior college level, Gene Keady was named an All-American in football for playing quarterback.
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At Kansas State, Gene Keady was a letter-winner in three sports: football, baseball, and track.
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Gene Keady was drafted in the 19th round of the 1958 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers but did not play.
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Gene Keady coached in Beloit for six years from 1959 to 1965.
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Gene Keady understood the value of education and never stopped learning, even while he was coaching.
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Gene Keady began his college coaching career with Hutchinson Junior College in Hutchinson, Kansas.
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Gene Keady served as the assistant coach for the Blue Dragons starting in 1965.
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Head coach Eddie Sutton and Gene Keady made the Razorbacks into a perennial national contender.
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Notable players that were recruited by Gene Keady include Ron Brewer, Marvin Delph and Sidney Moncrief.
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Gene Keady became the Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball head coach on April 11,1980.
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Gene Keady became the winningest coach in school history with 493 victories and second winningest coach in Big Ten Conference history, behind only his former rival: Bob Knight.
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Gene Keady was the Big Ten Coach of the Year a record seven times.
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Gene Keady guided the Boilermakers to six Big Ten titles, including three straight outright crowns from 1994 through 1996.
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Gene Keady took the Boilermakers to two Elite Eight appearances and five total Sweet Sixteen appearances.
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In October 2006, Keady was named the recipient of the 2007 John R Wooden "Legends of Coaching" Award.
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Gene Keady is the ninth recipient of this award, as it was created in 1999.
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In October 2010, newly hired St John's coach, Steve Lavin, hired Gene Keady to be his assistant coach.
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Gene Keady led Team USA to two gold medals: one in 1979 at the National Sports Festival, and another in 1989 at the World University Games.
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Gene Keady led Team USA to the bronze at the 1991 Pan-American Games.
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In 2000, Gene Keady was an assistant coach for the Dream Team; while coaches are not awarded medals, the team won the gold medal in the Olympic Games in Sydney.
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On December 6,2005, Gene Keady accepted the position of an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors offered to him by senior basketball adviser to the president, Wayne Embry.
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In 2007, The Big Ten Network, a network that airs live sporting events of Big Ten Conference teams and news from around the conference, hired Gene Keady to be a basketball analyst, along with former Big Ten basketball players, Tim Doyle and Jim Jackson.
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Gene Keady now attends Purdue home games on a regular basis.
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The Gene Keady coaching tree is a chain of NCAA basketball coaches who can trace their coaching roots to Gene Keady.