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Hugh Durham (born October 26, 1937) is the first and only coach in the history of NCAA Division I basketball to lead two different schools to the NCAA Final Four for the first and only time in each school's history (Florida State University - 1972; University of Georgia - 1983). No other coach in either school's history has been able to duplicate Durham's achievements. In 1972 at the age of 34, Durham led FSU to the NCAA Championship game coaching against Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith and John Wooden in three consecutive NCAA Tournament games. Durham's Seminoles knocked off Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats and Smith's North Carolina Tar Heels. In the NCAA Championship game, Wooden's UCLA Bruins edged the Seminoles to win the title. Wooden, Rupp and Smith combined to win 16 NCAA Championships in their careers. Durham is the only coach in NCAA Division I history to be the all-time most successful coach at three different Universities. His career spanned five decades at Florida State University, the University of Georgia, and Jacksonville University. In 1966-67, Durham signed Lenny Hall who was the first African-American basketball player at Florida State University. In 2003, Durham became only the 32nd basketball head coach in NCAA Division I history to win 600 career games. When he retired from coaching in 2005, Durham was the eighth most successful coach among active NCAA Division I coaches with 633 victories. He had coached in 1,062 games, the third highest number of games for a head coach in NCAA Division I history. Durham was the 25th most successful coach in NCAA Division I history and had been voted conference Coach of the Year four times in the Southeastern Conference and once in the Metro Conference. During his career, Durham coached nine All-Americans, four Academic All-Americans, four first round NBA draft picks including Dave Cowens and Dominique Wilkins, had 31 players drafted by the NBA, plus sent two players to the US Olympic basketball team, one of which was Vern Fleming (1984). Durham is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Durham was a highly recruited three sport star at Eastern High School. He was an all-state quarterback and all-region in basketball. He chose to play basketball in college and accepted a scholarship offer from Florida State University. Durham was inducted into the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 1980, the Kentucky High School Hall of Fame in 1994, the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1999, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2009, and the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 ==College career== At Florida State University, Durham is one of the most prolific scorers in Seminole basketball history. He appears prominently in the Florida State record book as both a player and head coach. Durham was a guard for FSU head coach Bud Kennedy. Over fifty years after his FSU career ended, Durham's career average of 18.9 points per game is still the ninth best in school history. His 21.9 points per game in 1958-59 remains the seventh best single season average in FSU history. On January 19, 1957 Durham scored 43 points against Stetson University. It is still the second-best single game scoring mark in school history. For his three-year varsity career, Durham scored 1,381 points. Durham played prior to college basketball adopting the three-point shot. In 1999 Florida State renamed its Most Valuable Player award the "Hugh Durham Most Valuable Player" award in his honor. In 1959, Durham graduated from Florida State with a B.A. in business administration. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. In 1961, he earned an M.B.A. from Florida State. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Durham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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