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Matt Zunic Guard Personal information Date of birth December 19, 1919 Nationality USA Date of death December 15, 2006 (aged 86) Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Listed weight 195 lb (88 kg) Career information College George Washington Stats at NBA.com Matthew Zunic (December 19, 1919 - December 15, 2006[1]) was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball at the George Washington University.[2] A 6'3" guard, he played one season (1948-49) in the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA. He averaged 4.9 points per game for the Washington Capitols.
He later coached at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. He coached seven season at BU (1952-53 through 1958-59), compiling a 96-58 record (.623). He then moved to the University of Massachusetts, coaching for four seasons (1959-60 through 1962-63), compiling a 57-41 record (.582). In the 1961-62 season, Massachusetts won their first Yankee Conference title, and played in the school's first NCAA Tournament.
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Boston University Terriers men's basketball head coaches No coach (1901–1907) • No team (1907–1908) • P. V. Stroud (1908–1909) • Charles McGlue (1909–1910) • H. L. Perrin (1910–1911) • No team (1911–1915) • Henry Crane (1915–1916) • V. B. Allison (1916–1918) • No team (1918–1919) • Percy L. Wendell (1919–1920) • No coach (1920–1923) • No team (1923–1924) • John Williams (1924–1925) • Win Carlson (1925–1932) • John Harmon (1932–1935) • Mel Collard (1935–1943) • No team (1943–1944) • Mel Collard (1944–1945) • Russ Peterson (1945–1948) • Charles Cummings (1948–1949) • Vin Cronin (1949–1952) • Matt Zunic (1952–1959) • John Burke (1959–1966) • Charles Luce (1966–1971) • Ron Mitchell (1971–1974) • Roy Sigler (1974–1978) • Rick Pitino (1978–1983) • John Kuester (1983–1985) • Mike Jarvis (1985–1990) • Bob Brown (1990–1994) • Dennis Wolff (1994–2009) • Pat Chambers (2009–2011) • Joe Jones (2011– )
UMass Redmen / Minutemen basketball head coaches No coach (1899–1900) • No team (1900–1901) • No coach (1901–1909) • No team (1910–1916) • Harold Gore (1916–1917) • Sumner Dole (1917–1918) • Harold Gore # (1918–1919) • Emory Grayson (1919–1920) • Harold Gore (1920–1929) • Fritz Ellert (1929–1933) • Mel Taube (1933–1936) • Wilho Frigard (1936–1940) • Louis Bush (1940–1941) • Fritz Ellert # (1941) • Walter Hargesheimer (1941–1943) • No team (1943–1945) • Lorin Ball (1945–1946) • Walter Hargesheimer (1946) • Lorin Ball (1946–1952) • Robert Curran (1952–1959) • Matt Zunic (1959–1963) • Johnny Orr (1963–1966) • Jack Leaman (1966–1979) • Ray Wilson (1979–1981) • Tom McLaughlin (1981–1983) • Ron Gerlufson (1983–1988) • John Calipari (1988–1996) • Bruiser Flint (1996–2001) • Steve Lappas (2001–2005) • Travis Ford (2005–2008) • Derek Kellogg (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.
Categories:- 1919 births
- 2006 deaths
- American basketball players
- George Washington Colonials men's basketball players
- Washington Capitols draft picks
- Washington Capitols players
- Boston University Terriers men's basketball coaches
- UMass Minutemen basketball coaches
- American basketball biography, 1910s birth stubs
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