About: Benny Dees

An Entity of Type: coach, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Benny Dees (December 29, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He was head coach of the University of New Orleans Privateers team from 1985 to 1987, the University of Wyoming team from 1987 to 1993 and Western Carolina University from 1993 to 1995. Additionally, Dees served as assistant coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama, and Western Kentucky. In 1987, he led the University of New Orleans to their first NCAA Championship tournament, where they defeated BYU in the first round 83–79. Dees died on March 23, 2021, at the age of 86.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • بيني ديس (بالإنجليزية: Benny Dees)‏ هو لاعب كرة قاعدة أمريكي، ولد في 29 ديسمبر 1936 في ماونت فيرنون في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Benny Dees (December 29, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He was head coach of the University of New Orleans Privateers team from 1985 to 1987, the University of Wyoming team from 1987 to 1993 and Western Carolina University from 1993 to 1995. Additionally, Dees served as assistant coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama, and Western Kentucky. In 1987, he led the University of New Orleans to their first NCAA Championship tournament, where they defeated BYU in the first round 83–79. While attending college at the University of Wyoming, Dees lettered in basketball and baseball. He began his coaching career as head coach of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College from 1962 to 1967. Dees subsequently became the first coach of VCU. Upon retirement, Dees returned to his native Georgia, where he coached high school basketball. He retired as head coach of the Toombs County High School boys' basketball team in 2010. Dees was married to Nancy Dees, who coached women's basketball at the University of West Georgia. Benny and Nancy Dees have one son, Josh Dees, who played basketball for the University of Wyoming and Western Carolina University and now serves as assistant coach at the College of Southern Idaho. Dees died on March 23, 2021, at the age of 86. (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1934-12-29 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:deathDate
  • 2021-03-23 (xsd:date)
dbo:overallRecord
  • 197–144 (college)
dbo:tournamentRecord
  • 1–1 (NIT)
  • 1–2 (NCAA Division I)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 20931775 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 9854 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1115668564 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1934-12-29 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:championship
  • conference tournament (en)
dbp:championships
  • WAC tournament (en)
dbp:coachSport
  • Basketball (en)
dbp:coachTeam
dbp:coachYears
  • 1962 (xsd:integer)
  • 1968 (xsd:integer)
  • 1970 (xsd:integer)
  • 1977 (xsd:integer)
  • 1979 (xsd:integer)
  • 1980 (xsd:integer)
  • 1985 (xsd:integer)
  • 1987 (xsd:integer)
  • 1993 (xsd:integer)
dbp:conference
dbp:confrecord
  • 16 (xsd:integer)
  • 47 (xsd:integer)
dbp:confstanding
  • 2 (xsd:integer)
  • 4 (xsd:integer)
  • 5 (xsd:integer)
  • 6 (xsd:integer)
  • 7 (xsd:integer)
  • 8 (xsd:integer)
dbp:deathDate
  • 2021-03-23 (xsd:date)
dbp:endyear
  • 1970 (xsd:integer)
  • 1987 (xsd:integer)
  • 1993 (xsd:integer)
  • 1995 (xsd:integer)
dbp:name
dbp:overall
  • 12 (xsd:integer)
  • 13 (xsd:integer)
  • 14 (xsd:integer)
  • 15 (xsd:integer)
  • 16 (xsd:integer)
  • 20 (xsd:integer)
  • 25 (xsd:integer)
  • 26 (xsd:integer)
  • 42 (xsd:integer)
  • 104 (xsd:integer)
dbp:overallRecord
  • 197 (xsd:integer)
dbp:playerSport
  • Baseball (en)
  • Basketball (en)
dbp:playerTeam
dbp:playerYears
  • 1957 (xsd:integer)
  • c. 1958 (en)
dbp:postseason
dbp:season
  • 1968 (xsd:integer)
  • 1969 (xsd:integer)
  • 1985 (xsd:integer)
  • 1986 (xsd:integer)
  • 1987 (xsd:integer)
  • 1988 (xsd:integer)
  • 1989 (xsd:integer)
  • 1990 (xsd:integer)
  • 1991 (xsd:integer)
  • 1992 (xsd:integer)
  • 1993 (xsd:integer)
  • 1994 (xsd:integer)
dbp:startyear
  • 1968 (xsd:integer)
  • 1985 (xsd:integer)
  • 1987 (xsd:integer)
  • 1993 (xsd:integer)
dbp:tournamentRecord
  • 1 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • بيني ديس (بالإنجليزية: Benny Dees)‏ هو لاعب كرة قاعدة أمريكي، ولد في 29 ديسمبر 1936 في ماونت فيرنون في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Benny Dees (December 29, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He was head coach of the University of New Orleans Privateers team from 1985 to 1987, the University of Wyoming team from 1987 to 1993 and Western Carolina University from 1993 to 1995. Additionally, Dees served as assistant coach at Georgia Tech, Alabama, and Western Kentucky. In 1987, he led the University of New Orleans to their first NCAA Championship tournament, where they defeated BYU in the first round 83–79. Dees died on March 23, 2021, at the age of 86. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Benny Dees (en)
  • بيني ديس (ar)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Benny Dees (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:coach of
is dbp:headCoach of
is dbp:name of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License