1. Norm Sloan began a long career as a basketball coach months after graduating from college in 1951, and he was the men's basketball head coach at Presbyterian College, The Citadel, North Carolina State University, and two stints at the University of Florida.
Over a career that spanned 38 seasons, Norm Sloan was named conference coach of the year five times and won the 1974 national championship at North Carolina State, his alma mater.
Norm Sloan was nicknamed "Stormin' Norman" due to his combative nature with the media, his players, and school administrators, and his collegiate coaching career ended in controversy when Florida's basketball program was under investigation in 1989, though Sloan claimed that he was treated unfairly.
Norm Sloan attended Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis, where he lettered in basketball.
Norm Sloan received an athletic scholarship to attend North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he played guard for coach Everett Case's NC State Wolfpack from 1946 to 1949.
Norm Sloan was one of Case's original six "Hoosier Hotshots," a group of high school stars Case recruited from Indiana.
Norm Sloan was a member of three Wolfpack teams that won Southern Conference championships in 1947,1948 and 1949.
Norm Sloan quit the basketball team before his senior year due to an ongoing dispute with Case over playing time.
Norm Sloan graduated from NC State with a bachelor's degree in education in 1951.
Norm Sloan left for Memphis State University in 1955 to serve as an assistant for the Memphis Tigers under head coach Eugene Lambert.
In 1956, Norm Sloan was named the head coach at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina to take over a basketball program which had won a total of two games over the previous two seasons.
In 1960, Norm Sloan was hired as the first full-time basketball coach at the University of Florida.
Norm Sloan was unable to get the Gators into postseason play during this time; during the 1960s, only one team per conference was guaranteed an NCAA bid.
Norm Sloan was named head coach at his alma mater, North Carolina State, in 1966, and his NC State Wolfpack basketball teams won three Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in 1970,1973 and 1974.
Norm Sloan was selected the National Coach of the Year in 1973 by Basketball Weekly, and again in 1974 by the USBWA and the Associated Press.
Norm Sloan was named head coach of the Great Britain men's national basketball team ahead of the 1980 Olympic qualifying campaign.
Norm Sloan, who had just been rehired by the University of Florida, hosted a month-long training camp for the Great Britain national team on Florida's campus in Gainesville.
Norm Sloan then took the team to England for a series of preparation games against Finland and Belgium before competing in the Vienna Tournament in Austria and the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Switzerland.
Norm Sloan was succeeded as the Great Britain National Team head coach by Tom Schneeman.
From 1984 through 1989, Norm Sloan's Gators posted winning records in six straight campaigns and made the first six postseason tournament appearances in program history when they were invited to the NIT Tournament in 1984,1985, and 1986 and the NCAA Tournament 1987,1988, and 1989.
Norm Sloan had purchased a plane ticket to Boston for Maxwell in the summer of 1987 so that Maxwell could serve as a counselor at a basketball camp.
Two years earlier, one of Norm Sloan's assistants had allowed a recruit's mother to use the return leg of the recruit's airline ticket to return home after the recruit enrolled in summer school.
Norm Sloan was personally penalized with a five-year show-cause penalty, which had the effect of blackballing him from the collegiate coaching ranks until 1995 at the earliest.
Norm Sloan believed the prospect of such a severe penalty caused Arnsparger and other administrators to overreact and force him out.
Norm Sloan was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, the Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002, and the North Carolina State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.
Norm Sloan coached briefly in Greece after leaving Florida, then he retired in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Norm Sloan died of complications related to pulmonary fibrosis on December 9,2003, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Norm Sloan was survived by his wife Joan, son Mike, and daughters Leslie and Debbie.