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Joe Dean
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Joe Dean (born 1931) is a former basketball player and former athletic director for Louisiana State University.
Dean was a 2 year starter on his team at New Albany High School, including a stint as captain on the team his senior year. After high school he decided to attend LSU. He was a member of the LSU basketball team from 1949 to 1952, earning All-SEC honors three times. Dean was drafted by the Indianapolis Olympians in the first round of the 1952 NBA Draft, but instead played for the Bartlesville Phillips 66ers of the National Industrial Basketball League.
Dean was also a color analyst for almost 20 years, working with NBC, TBS, ESPN, TVS and Jefferson Pilot. He coined the phrase "string music", which has since become an SEC basketball trademark.[1]
He served as LSU athletic director for 14 years, having been succeeded in 2001 by Skip Bertman.
He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.[2] He is also a member off the LSU Hall of Fame.
- Abstract of interviews with Joe Dean, LSU Oral History Collection
- Joe Dean profile, The Draft Review
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| Cohen • Heard • Corbett • Rabenhorst • Maddox • Dietzel • Brodhead • Dean • Bertman |