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Everett Sterling Dean (March 18, 1898 – October 26, 1993) was an American college
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and
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coach.


Biography

Born in
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, Dean played basketball for three years at
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, where he was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and was named the 1921 Helms Athletic Foundation All-America team. He began his coaching career at Carleton College. Dean was the head baseball and basketball coach at his alma mater,
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, from 1924 to 1938. In 1938, Dean was named head basketball coach at
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, where he coached the team to the 1942 NCAA championship. Dean was named baseball coach at Stanford in 1950, and led Stanford's baseball team to the 1953 College World Series. Dean is the only coach named to both the
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and the
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. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965. He also has the distinction of being the first basketball All-American from Indiana University. Dean wrote two books, ''Indiana Basketball'' in 1933 and ''Progressive Basketball'' in 1942. His fondness for the local history of his native
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led him to push for the creation of the
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of
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.


Head coaching record


Basketball


See also

* List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach


References


Further reading

NCAA, NCAA March Madness: Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA Men's Final Four : Chicago: Triumph Books, 2004.


External links

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