Congratulations to George Raveling for his selection to be in Basketball's Naismith Hall Of Fame. George was the basketball coach when I was at WSU. He was the first African-American coach in what was then the Pac-8. That in it's self is rather amazing, considering it is in maybe the most Conservative area of any of what was then an all West Coast conference. It was a much different world when Raveling assumed the head coaching position at WSU, but he stayed at the school for
11 seasons, which included
2 NCAA tournament appearances. In addition to his coaching duties, he also wrote a syndicated newspaper column and was a popular banquet speaker.
Raveling would later leave WSU for other opportunities, a serious accident forced him to step down as USC basketball coach. He then went to work for NIKE. Seattle Times columnist Bud Withers wrote a great article on what Raveling brought to WSU,
click here.
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