Doug Gottlieb

Doug Gottlieb
Born	January 15, 1976 (1976-01-15) (age 35) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Occupation	Analyst
Employer	ESPN

Douglas Michael Gottlieb (born January 15, 1976 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former NCAA collegiate basketball player for the University of Notre Dame and Oklahoma State University and is a current ESPN analyst and host of the ESPN Radio show The Doug Gottlieb Show.

College basketball career

Gottlieb grew up in Orange, California, where he was the Orange County Player of the Year in 1995 for Tustin High School. Gottlieb was a high school All-American who played in the Magic's Roundball Classic following his senior year. Gottlieb was considered the "Best in the West" point guard, as rated by the Long Beach Press-Telegram. After signing a national letter of intent with Notre Dame, Gottlieb was their starting point guard during the 1995-1996 college basketball season, starting all but the first four games and leading the team with 154 assists (against only 70 turnovers) as well as steals and minutes played. However Gottlieb's stint at Notre Dame would be short. During Gottlieb's freshman year, he stole credit cards from a roommate and fraudulently charged over $900 to those cards; subsequently, he was expelled from the team and eventually convicted of misdemeanor fraud. Gottlieb then transferred to Golden West College where he concentrated on academics and earned an Associate of Arts in business.^[1][2]

In 1998, Gottlieb accepted an offer from Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton (who Gottlieb's father had once been assistant coach) to attend the university. He immediately took over as point guard for an OSU team that had gone 17-15 in consecutive years and lead the Cowboys to the NCAA tournament. After the season, Gottlieb was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention and was named the 1998 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. During his second year in Stillwater, Gottlieb was again named All-Big 12 honorable mention and led the nation in assists (8.8 per game), only the second Cowboy to lead the nation in a statistical category. He also started setting OSU assist records, breaking the school career mark with 500 (after only two seasons) and broke the school record of 22 career double-figure assist games. In a game against Florida Atlantic, Gottlieb set a school record and tied the Big 12 mark with 18 assists, and in the Big 12 tournament, he set the record for assists in a game (14) as well as in tournament play (38). The 2000 season would culminate with another trip to the NCAA tournament. As senior, Gottlieb finished second in the nation in assists with 8.5 per game.^[3] Gottlieb's senior season would end with a third consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament and the team would make it all the way to the Elite Eight.^[4]

He currently holds all of Oklahoma State's assist records and ranks tenth all-time in NCAA career assists with 947.^[5] Gottlieb graduated from OSU in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in marketing. Although a heady point guard with a knack for getting the ball to his teammates, his shooting never match his passing as he would finish with a career scoring average of only 5.2 points per game, a 37.9 field goal shooting percentage, a 23.6 three-point field goal percentage, and a 45.3 free throw percentage.

Professional basketball career

After graduating from college, the poor-shooting Gottlieb would go undrafted in the NBA draft but would be made the No 1 pick of the Enid, Oklahoma United States Basketball League team the Oklahoma Storm in the 2000 USBL Draft.^[6] Gottlieb's season with the Storm would be successful as he led the USBL in assists and helped the Storm to a 2nd place finish in the team's inaugural season (losing to the Dodge City Legend in the USBL Championship Game). Gottlieb then took his basketball career overseas, which included a stop in Israel after signing with Maccabi Ra'anana. Gottlieb played professionally internationally, in France, Russia and Israel.

The Idaho Stampede of the Continental Basketball Association signed him on Nov. 28, 2000, prior to training camp and then released him on Dec. 13, 2000, two days before their opening game.^[7] On Dec. 28, he signed with the Salina Rattlers of the (now defunct) International Basketball Association and played in six games (four starts) before the team released him due to Gottlieb's intent to play overseas. In February 2001, he joined Ural Great Perm of the Russian Basketball Federation and helped the team win the league championship.^[8] Following Ural's season, Gottlieb traveled to Israel and won a Gold Medal as the MVP for the United States team at the Maccabiah Games. In the title game, the US team defeated Israel 82-71.^[9] He then played for the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Summer League and then was invited to return to the Oklahoma Storm. However, he and new coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did not see eye-to-eye and he was released before the season began. Following his release, Gottlieb played the 2001-2002 with the Israeli team Maccabi Ra'anana.

Broadcast career

In 2002, Gottlieb co-hosted a midday sports-talk show on an Oklahoma City, OK radio station WWLS 640-AM known locally as "The Sports Animal". Gottlieb was hired by ESPN Radio in September 2003 as co-host of ESPN Radio's GameNight. He would then move to host The Pulse weekday evenings from 8 to 10 Eastern before moving to afternoon drive (4 P.M. to 7 P.M. ET). The hourly opening to his current program, The Doug Gottlieb Show, starts with the question, "Um, It is Doug Gottlieb, right?", a jab at his poor track record of actually hosting his own show. He also serves as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN2, additionally appearing on ESPNEWS and writing for espn.com. Gottlieb is also a frequent guest on ESPN television shows, including SportsCenter and also on College Basketball Gameday Final.^[10] He occasionally appears on the popular TV show SportsNation (TV series) as a guest host.

Gottlieb and Syracuse University basketball coach, Jim Boeheim have traded barbs since 2005 because of Gottlieb's criticism of what he regards as Syracuse's soft nonconference schedule and Boeheim's comments regarding Gottlieb's difficulties at Notre Dame. Gottlieb and Boeheim refuse to discuss their feud publicly.^{[dead link][11]} Along with then-University of Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, Gottlieb helped coach the United States team at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.

Honors

On June 26, 2011, he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[12]

Personal life

Gottlieb met future wife Angie, a native of Drumright, Oklahoma and fellow OSU alum, while attending OSU and has been married since August 2000.^[13] The couple have three children. Gottlieb's brother Gregg is currently an assistant basketball coach for the University of California.^[14]

See also

• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career assists leaders
• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season assists leaders

References

1. ^ "Cowboys' Gottlieb forges new image in spotlight". March, 2000. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/03/26/spt_cowboys_gottlieb.html. Retrieved 2009-02-06. 
2. ^ Cherner, Reid (February, 2008). "ESPN personality Doug Gottlieb: Wired for candor". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2008-02-26-Gottlieb_N.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-06. 
3. ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/sports-recreation/sports-games-outdoor/6419828-1.html
4. ^ http://www.stwnewspress.com/osusports/x58346047/Doug-Gottlieb-helped-Oklahoma-State-reach-the-Elite-8-in-2000-Today-he-discusses-basketball-as-ESPNs-resident-Cowboy
5. ^ "CNNSI.com - Doug Gottlieb - -". http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/2000/nba_draft/draftboard/players/195.html. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
6. ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/sports-recreation/sports-games-outdoor/6419828-1.html
7. ^ CNN. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/transactions/2000/12/13/index.html. 
8. ^ Henderson, Martin (2001-02-12). "Oklahoma St. Tragedy Hits Gottlieb Hard". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/12/sports/sp-24494. 
9. ^ "2001 US Maccabiah Basketball Team". August, 2001. http://www.jewishsports.com/profiles/2001maccabiahhoops.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-10. 
10. ^ "Who is Doug Gottlieb?". ESPN. 2006. http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/news/story?page=douggottliebbio. Retrieved 2007-03-10. 
11. ^ Wolfley, Bob (2005-03-11). "SPORTSWAVES Gottlieb's strong words have some calling foul". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20050311/ai_n12946776. Retrieved 2007-03-10. 
12. ^ "Sports Shorts". Jewish Sports Review. July/August 2011. 
13. ^ Henderson, Martin (2001-02-12). "Oklahoma St. Tragedy Hits Gottlieb Hard". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/12/sports/sp-24494. 
14. ^ http://209.184.242.1/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=29&articleid=20100614_17_B1_DougGo118575

External links

• Doug Gottlieb ESPN Bio
• Statistics at Oklahoma State

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Date of birth	1976-01-15
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