Longtime college basketball coach Bill Courtney dead at 55

Bill Courtney, a longtime assemblage hoops manager who was serving arsenic an adjunct for the Temple Owls men’s team, has died, the schoolhouse announced Tuesday. He was 55.

Courtney’s origin of decease was not revealed. Temple described it arsenic a "sudden passing" successful its announcement.

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Miami Hurricanes interim caput manager Bill Courtney looks connected during the 2nd fractional against the Virginia Tech Hokies astatine Cassell Coliseum connected Jan. 4, 2025. (Peter Casey/Imagn Images)

"I was shocked and saddened to larn of the abrupt passing of coach," Temple diversion manager Arthur Johnson said successful a statement. "In the abbreviated clip that helium has been portion of the Temple family, I saw the interaction that helium had connected our programme with the joyousness that exuded from him connected and disconnected the court. He volition beryllium missed by his contiguous family, his Temple hoops family, and the greater hoops community."

Courtney joined caput manager Adam Fisher’s unit successful June, bringing 3 decades of hoops cognition with him.

Fisher said successful a connection that Courtney’s decease near him "shocked and heartbroken."

Then-Miami interim caput manager Bill Courtney gestures during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage hoops crippled against Duke, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, successful Coral Gables, Florida. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

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"Bill made specified a large interaction connected our programme successful specified a abbreviated time," helium added. "He was 1 of the astir respected coaches successful the state - thoughtful, prepared, and profoundly committed to the crippled and to winning the close way. Bill made each programme helium touched better, and his nonaccomplishment is felt profoundly by everyone who knew him. Our thoughts and prayers spell retired to Bill's household during this highly hard time."

Courtney had been connected the benches for American, Bowling Green, George Mason, Providence, Virginia, Virginia Tech and DePaul. He was a caput manager astatine Cornell from 2010 to 2016 and was an interim caput manager for Miami during the 2024-25 season.

"In implicit 30 years arsenic a hoops coach, Courtney had a profound interaction connected his colleagues and student-athletes," American Conference Commissioner Tim Pernetti said. "He helped pb Miami to the Final Four and programs to 9 postseason tournaments, but his effect connected the lives of the student-athletes and coaches who worked with him volition beryllium his eventual legacy."

Miami Hurricanes caput manager Bill Courtney connected the sideline against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets successful the archetypal fractional astatine McCamish Pavilion connected March 4, 2025. (Brett Davis/Imagn Images)

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Courtney had 63 wins arsenic a assemblage hoops caput coach.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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