NC State Athletic Hall of Fame
Jim Valvano
- Induction:
- 2012
Awards
- 1989 ACC Coach of the Year
- 1993 Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award
- 1967 Rutgers Senior Athlete of the Year
- Rutgers Basketball Hall of Fame (1993)
- North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (1995)
- New York City Basketball Hall of Fame (1999)
- Hall of Distinguished Alumni, Rutgers University (1999)
- National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame (2004)
Records
- Career record: 346-210; NC State record: 209-114
- Coached All-Americans Lorenzo Charles, Chris Corchiani, Rodney Monroe and Tom Gugliotta and Academic All-American Terry Gannon
- Coached Everett Case Award winners (MVP of the ACC Tournament) Sidney Lowe (1983) and Vinny Del Negro (1987)
Team Records
- Won 1983 NCAA Championship
- Won two ACC Tournament championships (1983, `87)
- Won two ACC regular-season championships (1985, `89)
- Qualified for four Sweet 16s, three Elite Eights and one Final Four
- Qualified for seven NCAA Tournaments in 10 years, including a school-record five consecutive from 1985-89
General Information
- Served as men's basketball coach (1980-90) and athletics director (1986-89)
- Became college basketball's highest paid coach shortly after NC State's 1983 NCAA title and ushered in the era of multi-dimensional college coaches with additional media, apparel,shoe and personal appearance contracts
- Author of "Too Soon To Quit," about the 1983 NCAA Championship,and "They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead," a memoir about his coaching career
- Became popular broadcaster for ESPN and ABC sports after coaching career
- Delivered his trademark line "Don't give up... Don't ever give up." during speeches at Reynolds Coliseum and during the inaugural ESPYs in 1993
- Founded The V Foundation for Cancer Research, which has given more than $90 million in research grants to young scientists
- Born: March 10, 1946; Died: April 28, 1993
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