Former MU Coach Tex Winter Suffers Stroke

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4099837

[77ncaachamps]

Prayers for Tex, an ex-head coach for Marquette...

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/sports/basketball/Lakers-Consultant-Tex-Winter-Suffers-Stroke.html

[TallTitan34]

Also played a key role in the Bulls 6 championships as he created the triangle offense.

Best wishes.

[bamamarquettefan]

I hope he is ok.  Funny, last week I ended up talking about Tex to one of his former players, Patrick O'Keefe, who loved him.  He was recruited by Tex, and lit it up in 1954 as an outside sharp-shooter.  While I give Nagle the credit for taking MU to its first Elite 8 after Nagle left for Kansas State, O'Keefe really felt like Tex was the one who brought in that first fantastic 8 players that got up to No. 8 in the country and then backed it up with the Elite 8 run.  He also thought that Tex was the one who set the strategy in motion for that run.

Not to take credit from Nagle, who played for MU in 1939 and 1940 and took MU to new heights before going onto be commissioner of the CBA, but based on the conversation with O'Keefe, it could be argued that MUs greatness may never have occurred without Tex's short two-year stint as head coach at MU setting the table for our first tournament run.

He also inherited an 8-14 team and made them National Catholic Champions his first year (1951-52) with a trip to New York to win the title.  The next year he took MU down to play his future team, Kansas State, for our first game ever against a No. 1 ranked team on January 10, 1953.

Get well coach and thanks for your contribution to MU!

[bamamarquettefan]

almost forgot, he was the youngest coach in America when MU hired him - so Buzz isn't the first time we've tried the young route!