Coaches with number one picks.

[HOFCeluck]

There are ten active coaches who have had a guy go number one overall. Who can name them?

Everyone should get one. So you really just have to come up with nine.

 

[MSOrange]

There are ten active coaches who have had a guy go number one overall. Who can name them?

Everyone should get one. So you really just have to come up with nine.

Jim Boeheim - Derrick Coleman
Coach K - Kyrie Iriving/Elton Brand
Bill Self - Andrew Wiggins
Thad Matta - Greg Oden
Bob Huggins - Kenyon Martin
Kelvin Sampson - Blake Griffin
John Calipari- Derrick Rose/Anthony Davis

I'm stuck now!

 

[HOFCeluck]

Jeff Capel was Blake's coach...he's an assistant now.

But that's six.

 

[two3zone]

Dave Odem - Tim Duncan

If I just didn't read about his contract I would have forgotten about him, didn't think to go that far back. haha

MSOrange did a pretty awesome job, I missed a few of hers as well.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Odom is retired.

 

[two3zone]

Odom is retired.

Damnit! lol

 

[cuseincincy]

Danny Manning - Larry Brown
Chris Webber - Steve Fisher

 

[HOFCeluck]

Two more...

 

[Etancuse]

Whoever UNLV's coach is.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Ill allow it. Dave Rice coached Anthony Bennett at UNLV.

The last one I would have never gotten in a million years.

 

[LetMeIn]

Gene Keady - Glenn Robinson

 

[two3zone]

Ill allow it. Dave Rice coached Anthony Bennett at UNLV.

The last one I would have never gotten in a million years.

I knew it was Bennett's coach, zero idea of his name though.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Gene Keady - Glenn Robinson

Keady is an assistant at St Johns. There is one active coach left.

 

[RF2044]

Steve Fischer?

 

[two3zone]

Rick Majerus for Andrew Bogut? Or was Majerus already gone by then?

 

[HOFCeluck]

Steve Fischer?

Cuseincincy named him.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Not Majerus. That would be VERY impressive though, considering his recent passing.

 

[two3zone]

Not Majerus...

I'm assuming it was Bogut's coach as it was somewhat recent. No idea who it is.

 

[RF2044]

Cuseincincy named him.

My bad--skimmed and missed it above.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Ray Giacoletti was Andrew Boguts coach...he is now head coach at Drake.

 

[MSOrange]

Dave Odem - Tim Duncan

If I just didn't read about his contract I would have forgotten about him, didn't think to go that far back. haha

MSOrange did a pretty awesome job, I missed a few of hers as well.

I'm actually a male but thanks for the compliment regardless

 

[two3zone]

I'm actually a male but thanks for the compliment regardless

Figured the MS was Mississippi but who knows, with women's rights and all can't be too careful.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Larry Brown Danny Manning 1988
Jim Boeheim Derrick Coleman 1990
Steve Fisher Chris Webber 1993
Coach K Elton Brand 1999 and Kyrie Irving 2011
Bob Huggins Kenyon Martin 2000
Ray Giocoletti Andrew Bogut 2005
Thad Matta Greg Oden 2007
John Calipari Derrick Rose 2008 John Wall 2010 and Anthony Davis 2012
Dave Rice Anthony Bennet 2013
Bill Self Andrew Wiggins 2014

 

[RF2044]

LARRY BROWN!!

What a great question this was, Doc--you stumped the field!

I thought I was onto something "clever" with the Steve Fischer pick earlier [i.e., a coach who had a #1 but was now at another school]. Brown fits that, but I never would have guessed him in a million years.

 

[HOFCeluck]

LARRY BROWN!!

What a great question this was, Doc.

Thanks...I saw it on the internets someplace and can't take all the credit.

I think I only got 5 without having to use Wikipedia. Totally blanked on older guys like Brown and Fisher, I thought Lon Kruger was still at UNLV, and like I said never would I have guessed Andrew Boguts coach.