- Milton Barnes (basketball)
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Milton Barnes is the head men’s basketball coach of U.S. Virgin Islands national basketball team and American former basketball player for Albion College in Michigan in the NCAA, where he scored 1,137 points from 1975-79. He was an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s under Clem Haskins. He later became head coach of Albion, Michigan High School, where he compiled a 65-11 record from 1988 to 1991, including a 26-1 record and a Class B state championship game appearance in his final season. Also, he is the former head coach of Eastern Michigan University and of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters. He also coached the NBDL's Greenville Groove to a league championship. Barnes and his wife Lyn have three children; sons Andre and Milton Jr. (8) and a daughter Alexis (10). His son Andre is a student-athlete in track and field at Michigan.
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Eastern Michigan Normalites / Hurons / Eagles men's basketball head coaches L. P. Whitcomb (1897–1898) • E. E. Crook (1898–1899) • Leslie A. Butler (1899–1900) • M. Everett Dick (1900–1901) • Clayton Teetzel (1901–1903) • Wilbur Bowen (1903–1909) • Clare Hunter (1909–1911) • Frederick Beyerman (1911–1912) • LeRoy Brown (1912–1914) • Thomas Ransom (1914–1915) • Elmer Mitchell (1915–1917) • Elton Rynearson (1917–1921) • Joseph McCulloch (1921–1925) • Elton Rynearson (1925–1932) • Harry Ockerman (1932–1935) • Elton Rynearson (1935–1940) • Frank Worzniak (1940–1941) • Ray Stites (1941–1944) • Elton Rynearson (1944–1946) • Ray Stites (1946–1947) • William Crouch (1947–1953) • Robert Hollway (1953–1954) • James Skala (1954–1960) • Richard Adams (1960–1966) • Jim Dutcher (1966–1972) • Allan Freund (1972–1976) • Ray Scott (1976–1979) • Jim Boyce (1979–1985) Ben Braun (1985–1996) • Milton Barnes (1996–2000) • Jim Boone (2000–2005) • Charles Ramsey (2005–2011) • Rob Murphy (2011– )
The athletic teams of Eastern Michigan University were known unofficially as the "Normalites" prior to 1929, known as the "Hurons" from 1929 to 1990, and known as the "Eagles" from 1991 to the present.Categories:- Living people
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