Gene Bess, all-time winningest college basketball coach, dead at 91
The college basketball world is mourning the death of Gene Bess, the winningest coach in the sport’s history.
On Friday, Bess’s son, Brian, announced the legendary coach had died.
He was 91.
“This morning at 4:00am my dad went to be with Jesus,’ Brian wrote in a Facebook post. ‘We are making arrangements and will let you know when we will celebrate.”
Bess coached junior college Three Rivers from 1971 to 2020, racking up an incredible 1,300 wins and earning induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023.
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