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Former LSU basketball head coach Dale Brown dies at 90
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BATON ROUGE — Former LSU basketball head coach Dale Brown has died at the age of 90, WBRZ learned Friday.
Brown coached the Tigers' men's basketball team from 1972 to 1997, coaching Shaquille O'Neal and leading the Tigers to two NCAA Final Four appearances in 1981 and 1986.
Brown's career spanned 448 victories, making him the winningest coach in LSU men's basketball history, a record that has yet to be broken. The Minot, North Dakota, native was also named SEC Coach of the Year in 1973, 1979, 1981 and 1989, as well as being named National Coach of the Year in 1981.
Brown suffered a stroke in April 2003, but returned to work less than a month later after what he called a “miracle” recovery.
Earlier this week, Brown was named the 2027 recipient of the Los Angeles Athletic Club John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award. Brown was set to receive the award in April.
"I can remember the first time I met Dale Brown. It was in a gym in the mountains of West Germany, and I told Dale Brown I was only 13 years old. And the way he hugged and grabbed me was like he found the biggest piece of gold nugget in a mountain," O'Neal said in a video presenting Brown with the Wooden Award. "Daddy Dale, we call you daddy for a reason. I love you."
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