{"id":206775,"date":"2020-08-28T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=206775"},"modified":"2020-08-28T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:01:11","slug":"hall-of-fame-coach-lute-olson-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=206775","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Coach, Lute Olson passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-206776\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OlsonLute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OlsonLute.jpg 185w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OlsonLute-119x175.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Longtime Arizona basketball coach and Hall of Famer Lute Olson has died, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p>Olson spent 24 seasons with the Wildcats, revitalizing a fan base in the desert while transforming a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament just three times in 79 years before he was hired in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona began a string of 25 straight NCAA Tournament appearances in Olson&#8217;s second season. The streak would have been the third-longest in NCAA history, but the 1999 and 2008 appearances were later vacated by the NCAA for impermissible benefits to players and recruiting violations.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats won the 1997 national championship under Olson with a team led by Mike Bibby, Jason Terry and Miles Simon. Olson\u2019s Arizona teams reached the Final Four four times and lost the 2001 national title game to Duke.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death wasn&#8217;t immediately released by his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Longtime Arizona basketball coach and Hall of Famer Lute Olson has died, according to his family. Olson spent 24 seasons with the Wildcats, revitalizing a fan base in the desert while transforming a program that had been to the NCAA Tournament just three times in 79 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206778,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206775\/revisions\/206778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}