George Raveling
American basketball coach and announcer (1937–2025)
George Henry Raveling (June 27, 1937 – September 1, 2025) was an American college basketball player and coach. He played for the Villanova Wildcats, and was the men's head coach for the Washington State Cougars (1972–1983), Iowa Hawkeyes (1983–1986), and USC Trojans (1986–1994). He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Early life
Raveling was born in a segregated hospital in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 1937. He was raised in Washington, D.C. and did not play basketball until he was in ninth grade. He was enrolled at St. Michael's, a Catholic boarding school in Hoban Heights, Pennsylvania; it was founded as an orphanage in 1916 near Scranton and closed in 2010. His grandmother's employer helped him enroll and he converted to Catholicism while a student there. Raveling's father died when he was 9 and his mother was institutionalized when he was 13, so academics became among the most influential forces in his life.
College and early career
Raveling attended college at Villanova University near Philadelphia and played basketball for the Wildcats.
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