“I’m kind of loud and I’m kind of proud'
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MINNEAPOLIS — Bruce Pearl, Auburn’s head basketball coach, has no plans to hide that he’s only the fourth Jewish head basketball coach to reach the Final Four.Pearl was the first president of the Jewish Coaches Association and in 2009, he coached the U.S. men’s team at Maccabiah Games, an Olympic-style international event held every four years in Israel. Pearl’s team won the title.
Nat Holman and Larry Brown, two Jewish head coaches to reach the Final Four, won national titles. Temple's Harry Litwack took the Owls to the Final Four twice.TEXAS TECH: Brandone Francis mourns friend Nipsey HussleHolman won the title with City College of New York in 1950, and Brown did it with Kansas in 1988.
“It tells you what a great country we live in,’’ he said. “I’m grateful for the religious freedom I have to be a practicing Jew in the Christian community . I can tell you down South it is so comfortable there because we share the same God. And my Christian brothers embrace that. It’s a wonderful thing.
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