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[QUOTE="Whitey23, post: 1298572, member: 216"]
Tarkanian told the best stories.

Take ex-NBA player DeShawn Stevenson, for example. Stevenson was a gifted high school player from Fresno who Roy Williams, then coach at Kansas, coveted. Trouble was, Stevenson was struggling to post an SAT score that would make him eligible as a freshman. His best score: 450. Williams was worried sick. In a last-ditch attempt Stevenson flew across country and re-tested. His new SAT score: 1150.

"Someone oughta tell Roy Williams that kid should forget basketball," Tarkanian said, recounting the story. "That kid's a Rhodes Scholar."

The test score was nullified. Stevenson was drafted by the Jazz in the first round. Tarkanian just shook his head at the whole thing.

Tarkanian also told a story about Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun. The coaches were in hot pursuit, Tarkanian said, of the same high school recruit when Tarkanian got some bad news -- he had cancer. Or at least, Tarkanian said that was what Calhoun was telling the recruit.

Tarkanian did not have cancer.

"I had cancer so I didn't get the kid," Tarkanian said. "Calhoun got him instead. But you know, I always really liked Calhoun."

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