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https://www.pianetabasket.com/varie/addio-a-lou-carnesecca-icona-degli-allenatori-di-basket-il-ricordo-di-valerio-bianchini-316747 02.12.2024 15:15  di  Redazione Pianetabasket.com   Il 30 novembre 2024 è e rimarrà un giorno profondamente triste per la pallacanestro, che ieri ha salutato una leggenda del basket mondiale, oltre che uno dei padri fondatori del nostro sport. Lou Carnesecca ci ha lasciati all’età di 99 anni, una longevità inconsueta come pittoresco era il suo approccio alla vita e al suo mestiere, quello di allenatore di basket: figlio di emigranti italiani che partirono da Pontremoli e sbarcarono ad Harlem dove riuscirono ad aprire un negozio di alimentari, “Looie” nel 1992 è stato indotto nella Hall of Fame di Springfield, doveroso riconoscimento a una carriera incredibile soprattutto a livello di College: 526 vittorie in 24 stagioni NCAA tutte alla guida di St. John’s, dove ha allenato e lanciato stelle come Chris Mullin, Walter Berry e Marc Jackson, il C...

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2024 by RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Longtime St. John’s Coach Known for his colorful courtside image, Lou Carnesecca guided the school to basketball glory. He was 99.  Lou Carnesecca, the Hall of Fame coach who took St. John’s University to national basketball prominence and who was known for his quick wit and colorful courtside persona, died on Saturday. He was 99.  His death was confirmed by Brian Browne, a spokesman for the university, who provided no other details.  When Carnesecca took over as the St. John’s head coach in 1965, the university, while rich in basketball tradition, played as an independent. It had begun a gradual move to the Jamaica section of Queens from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn 10 years earlier, and its Alumni Hall athletic building was only four years old.  With the founding of the Big East Conference in 1979, St. John’s began competing regularly againstleading basketball programs....

2 Dec 2024 - New York Post By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD Even as rivals, Jim Calhoun had a special place in his heart for legendary St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca. That was made clear when the UConn coaching great explained that Carnesecca was just one of two coaches that he’d ever gone out with after his team lost. “He asked me to come someplace after a game with some boosters and stuff, and I’d do that for Looie. I don’t think I’d do that for my brother,” Calhoun joked to The Post. “The way he had about him was special.” Carnesecca died at the age of 99 on Saturday afternoon, leaving a hole in the St. John’s community and the New York basketball scene. But for those who coached against him in the Big East, the loss seemed to sting even more. Calhoun and Syracuse coaching great Jim Boeheim came to know Carnesecca well between their time battling on the court and spending time together off it. The three names have become synonymous with Big East basketball, and Boeheim called it an “honor” to h...

Carnesecca’s greatness on court matched only by his heart off it 2 Dec 2024 - New York Post Mike Vaccaro mvaccaro@nypost.com THE phone buzzed in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, where buzzing phones are treated more harshly than germs, but there wasn’t a choice here. On the face of the phone was a name — “Lou Carnesecca” — and these were calls that always had to be answered. “Coach!” I said. “I saw where you wrote about that white suit that Rick Pitino wore yesterday at the Garden,” he said, in that most familiar, raspy voice, and even over the phone you could detect the twinkle in his eye. “And that his wife told him to wear it. And I saw where you mentioned that it was my wife, Mary, who told me to wear that awful old sweater that made me famous.” “She told me that story once,” I said. “She said you had a cold, and she wanted to keep you from getting pneumonia.” The old man laughed a hearty laugh. “She always was looking out for me,” he said. “Although I wish now that she wou...

CARNESECCA RECALLED MORE FOR THE MAN HE WAS THAN ALL HIS SUCCESSES By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD carnold1 @nypost.com 2 Dec 2024 - New York Post In case it wasn’t clear how important Lou Carnesecca was to St. John’s basketball and the New York basketball scene as a whole, all you had to do was look at the tribute that adorned the marquee at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. However, for longtime St. John’s assistant coach Brian Mahoney, who succeeded Carnesecca as the head coach, the lasting memory he’ll carry of Carnesecca, who died at the age of 99 on Saturday, will be his impact on the people around him. In a conversation with The Post, Mahoney recalled the times that Carnesecca would be approached on the street and make time to talk with anyone willing. “We always said, ‘You could run for mayor,’ ” Mahoney said. But what really left a lasting impact on the former St. John’s coach was the extra mile that Carnesecca would go for players, even the ones who never wore a St. John’s uniform. ...

Steve Chubin cattura un rimbalzo https://www.museodelbasket-milano.it/leggi.php?idcontenuti=523 Il rag. Tricerri per l’edizione del trofeo Lombardia 1966 aveva deciso di non cambiare formato, anzi avrebbe voluto svolgere il torneo ancora più a ridosso dell’inizio del campionato (che sarebbe iniziato il 23 ottobre), ma ciò non fu possibile: il Simmenthal era già impegnato il 14 e 15 ottobre a Lubiana in una manifestazione a cui partecipavano lo Zadar, l’Olimpia Lubiana, e la Rappresentativa Resto d’Europa e pertanto fu giocoforza disputare il "Lombardia" dal 3 al 7 ottobre. L’estate 1966 dopo il gran trambusto per il caso “Gennari”, con assegnazione d’ufficio dello scudetto al Simmenthal , era trascorsa con alcune importanti novità, in particolare riguardanti gli ingaggi di tecnici stranieri: Cantù con Stankovic, la All’Onestà con lo statunitense Percudani e la Candy Bologna con il cecoslovacco Sip . Nel frattempo a Roma la FIP aveva organizzato un clinic tenuto da un celebre...

https://eu.app.com/story/sports/college/2024/12/01/lou-carnesecca-st-johns-and-big-east-basketball-legend-dies-at-99/76688212007/ Jerry Carino - Asbury Park Press After his passing Saturday at age 99, former St. John’s basketball coach Lou Carnesecca was hailed as a prodigious winner, a first-rate character, and a founding godfather of the Big East Conference. P.J. Carlesimo would add something else. “He was a mentor to me and hundreds and hundreds, if not more, high school and college coaches,” the former Seton Hall coach said by phone Sunday. “The knowledge he would impart, most of the time it wasn’t X’s and O’s. It was how you should conduct yourself, how your team should behave, what’s the classy way to go about things.” Carlesimo drew on that wisdom after being dealt one of the toughest breaks in college hoops history – the phantom foul against Michigan that cost his Pirates the 1989 NCAA Tournament title. So placid and gracious was Carlesimo’s handling of the call that the offen...

a a Legendary St. John's coach Carnesecca dies at 99, leaving long, storied legacy at Queens school 1 Dec 2024 - New York Post By DON BURKE dburke@nypost.com Lou Carnesecca, the only child of Italian immigrants who ran a grocery store on Manhattan’s East Side and who became one of the most colorful and successful coaches in college basketball history during a 24-year career at St. John’s, died on Saturday afternoon, the Post confirmed. He was 99. Carnesecca, who would have turned 100 on Jan. 5, retired from coaching in 1992 , but kept an office on the Queens campus for more than 30 years in his role as an assistant to the university president and remained a presence at many of the team’s home games until 2022. “The St. John’s community mourns the loss of Hall of Fame coach and St. John’s legend, Lou Carnesecca,” St. John’s said in a statement. “Coach Carnesecca passed away peacefully at the age of 99.” A 1950 graduate of St. John’s, Carnesecca also coached the ABA Nets for three se...

https://www.neverendingseason.com/lou-carnesecca-coach-storia/ Storie Francesco Mecucci 1 Dicembre 2024 New York, le origini italiane, la NCAA: cosa c’è stato di più americano di Lou Carnesecca? I natali nella Grande Mela, le radici a Pontremoli, alta Toscana, e quel college basketball così centrale nella società e nella cultura sportiva d’oltreoceano. Dove i giocatori passano e sono gli allenatori a restare, anche per decenni, sulla stessa panchina. Diventano personaggi, esempi, leggende. E Carnesecca, scomparso il 30 novembre 2024 a 99 anni (a poco più di un mese dal suo centesimo compleanno), memoria di ferro e lucidità invidiabili fino all’ultimo giorno, è stato tutto questo. Simbolo indiscusso di St. John’s, l’università cattolica del Queens, quest’uomo d’altri tempi ha guidato la squadra di basket maschile per ventiquattro stagioni. Lasciando un segno tale da vedersi intitolata l’ex Alumni Hall, dal 2004 appunto Carnesecca Arena, il palazzo da 5600 posti nel campus del quartiere ...

By George Vecsey   The New York Times - Jan. 21, 2001 See the article in its original context from January 21, 2001, Section 8, Page 4 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine HE took exactly one shot in Madison Square Garden, although it was actually more of a chuck . A heave. A brick. An air ball, decades before the term was invented. Despite his lifetime 0-for-1 excursion into long-range gunnery, his number will be hung from the rafters. And what a number it is, three full digits' worth -- 526, the number of games won by St. John's University during the regime of Lou Carnesecca. The St. John's jersey will be unveiled during the Connecticut game on Jan. 30, and Looie, now 76, will no doubt recall the old barn farther up on Eighth Avenue, where he made his one mad fling for glory. ''I did play one game in the old Garden,'' he said recently. ''I was a terrible player. But I always wanted to be a coach. I was coaching little kids in the neighborhood, so they...