"Gene Bartow, the successor to John Wooden as UCLA basketball coach who became the architect of a new and successful athletics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, died Tuesday evening. He was 81.
Bartow, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer two years ago, died at his Birmingham home, according to a university spokesman.
Despite starting the athletics program at Alabama Birmingham and establishing the basketball program as nationally competitive, Bartow probably will be most remembered in Los Angeles as the man who replaced arguably the best coach in college basketball history and unarguably the most beloved and respected coach in Los Angeles sports history when in 1975 he took over UCLA’s program after Wooden’s retirement."
Bartow, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer two years ago, died at his Birmingham home, according to a university spokesman.
Despite starting the athletics program at Alabama Birmingham and establishing the basketball program as nationally competitive, Bartow probably will be most remembered in Los Angeles as the man who replaced arguably the best coach in college basketball history and unarguably the most beloved and respected coach in Los Angeles sports history when in 1975 he took over UCLA’s program after Wooden’s retirement."
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