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Billy Tubbs was born on 5 March, 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., is an American basketball player and coach (1935–2020). Discover Billy Tubbs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?
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85 years old |
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5 March, 1935 |
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5 March |
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St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Date of death |
1 November, 2020 |
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Norman, Oklahoma, U.S. |
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United States
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Billy Tubbs Height, Weight & Measurements
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Billy Tubbs Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Billy Tubbs worth at the age of 85 years old? Billy Tubbs’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. He is from United States. We have estimated Billy Tubbs's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Billy Duane Tubbs (March 5, 1935 – November 1, 2020) was an American men's college basketball coach.
Tubbs then attended Lamar State College of Technology (now Lamar University) in Beaumont, Texas and lettered in basketball from 1955 to 1957.
As a junior in 1955–56, Tubbs averaged 6.7 points and 3.1 rebounds for Lamar Tech.
Tubbs was an assistant at Lamar Tech from 1960 to 1971.
His 641 wins ranks 34th all-time in NCAA history.
His first head coaching job — from 1971-72 through 1972-73 — was at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, where his teams were 12–16 and 19–8.
From there he went to the University of North Texas to serve as assistant coach under Gene Robbins and for one year under Bill Blakeley.
Tubbs was known for his high scoring offense and full-court press defense.
Tubbs achieved many coaching milestones during his coaching career.
He became the ninth coach in NCAA history to record 100 wins at three different schools (Oklahoma 333, TCU 156 and Lamar 121).
Later, he was head coach at Southwestern University from 1971 to 1973.
Tubbs was the assistant men's basketball coach at the University of North Texas for three seasons, 1973-74 & 1974-75 under head coach Gene Robbins and 1975-76 under head coach Bill Blakeley.
In Blakeley's first season at North Texas, Tubbs, with newly hired assistant coach Jimmy Gales, helped turn around a team that had been 6-20 in 1975, to 22-4 in 1976, averaging 96 points a game – the second highest in the nation.
The Tulsa, Oklahoma native was the head coach of his alma mater Lamar University (1976–1980, 2003–2006), the University of Oklahoma (1980–1994) and Texas Christian University (1994–2002).
After that season, Tubbs accepted his first head coaching job at Lamar University for the 1976-77 season.
In 31 years of coaching, Tubbs compiled a 641-340 (.653) career record, including a 121-89 record in seven years at Lamar.
He guided 12 teams to NCAA tournament appearances, six National Invitation Tournament appearances, eight conference championships, three conference tournament championships and 18 20-win seasons.
During the same ceremony the school also honored Billy's 1978-79 Cardinals squad, the first team in Lamar University history to advance to the NCAA tournament.
Basketball Weekly named Tubbs National Coach of the Year in 1983 and 1985.
His 333 wins at OU are the most in school history.
While at Oklahoma, Tubbs guided the Sooners to runner-up finishes in the NCAA Tournament (1988) and the National Invitation Tournament (1991).
On May 27, 2002, Tubbs returned to Lamar University as director of athletics.
He became the 28th coach in NCAA Division I history to record 600 wins in Lamar's 79-67 win over Texas Southern during the 2003-04 season.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Tubbs grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Central High School in Tulsa.
Ten months later, on March 21, 2003, he also became Lamar's head basketball coach for the second time.
In March 2006, Tubbs resigned as head coach, but remained as director of athletics.
On June 14, 2010, Tubbs resigned as athletic director to become special advisor to Lamar University President James Simmons on athletics.
Tubbs retired at the end of August 2011.
In a halftime ceremony on February 19, 2011, Lamar dedicated the Montagne Center basketball floor as the "Billy & Pat Tubbs Court", named in honor of the coach and his wife.
Tubbs died in Norman, Oklahoma on November 1, 2020, after battling leukemia for five years.
The long-time TCU basketball coach is immortalized in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by 'Fake Billy Tubbs' a recurring bit character on the prominent local sports radio station The Ticket.
Tubbs is also remembered for doing a mean Jack Nicholson impression.
