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Bud Millikan
Oklahoma A&M
Position(s)
Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1950–1967Maryland
Head coaching record
Overall242–181
Tournaments2–1 (NCAA)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
ACC tournament (1958)
Awards
1942 All-American (Helms)

Herman A. "Bud" Millikan (October 12, 1920 – January 28, 2010) was the head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team from 1950 to 1967. He compiled a 243–182 record.

Early life

Millikan was born in Maryville, Missouri, and played on the Maryville High School basketball team that won the 1937 Missouri State High School Basketball Championship at a time when there were no divisions in state tournament play. He married his high school sweetheart Maxine.

Coaching career

Millikan followed

Southwest Missouri State University, although in fact he had not formally accepted the offer. It prompted Maryland to tell him they could pay him more.[3]

Among Millikan's players at Maryland were

Daytona Beach Morning Journal, Millikan was "praised for his coaching ability but criticized as a recruiter of talent."[5]

Millikan coached the team to an NCAA Elite 8 appearance in 1958.

Cole Field House was built. Millikan did not like the size of the field house, saying at one point "It's like playing on a neutral court" with seats too far from the courts. His successor Lefty Driesell added a few thousand seats around the court, raising the hometown decibel level.[7]

Every senior who played for Millikan graduated from the school. He imposed a discipline where players were required to wear the team blazer when traveling, and in warm-ups players wore towels around their necks in an ascot-like manner.[8]

Millikan resigned as the Maryland coach in 1967 and was replaced by his assistant Frank Fellows.[5]

Millikan died in Roswell, Georgia, on January 28, 2010, at the age of 89.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Maryland Terrapins (Southern Conference) (1950–1953)
1950–51 Maryland 15–10 11–8 8th
1951–52 Maryland 13–9 9–5 T–6th
1952–53 Maryland 15–8 12–3 T–2nd
Maryland Terrapins (Atlantic Coast Conference) (1953–1967)
1953–54 Maryland 23–7 7–2 2nd
1954–55 Maryland 17–7 10–4 3rd
1955–56 Maryland 14–10 7–7 5th
1956–57 Maryland 16–10 9–5 2nd
1957–58 Maryland 22–7 9–5 4th NCAA Regional Third Place
1958–59 Maryland 10–13 7–7 T–3rd
1959–60 Maryland 15–8 9–5 3rd
1960–61 Maryland 14–12 6–8 5th
1961–62 Maryland 8–17 3–11 7th
1962–63 Maryland 8–13 4–10 T–6th
1963–64 Maryland 9–17 5–9 6th
1964–65 Maryland 18–8 10–4 T–2nd
1965–66 Maryland 14–11 7–7 5th
1966–67 Maryland 11–14 4–10 7th
Maryland: 242–181 129–110
Total: 242–181

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ^ Ex-hoops coach Millikan dies - St. Joseph News-Press - January 31, 2010[permanent dead link], The News-Press, January 31, 2010.
  2. ^ Millikan, Funeral Digest, retrieved 19 June 2010.
  3. ISBN 0-8018-7221-9
  4. ISBN 1-58261-594-2
  5. ^ a b Sports Roundup, The Daytona Beach Morning Journal, March 30, 1967.
  6. ^ Ex-hoops coach Millikan dies - St. Joseph News-Press - January 31, 2010[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Terps' Cole rebounded to be cherished hoops home - Baltimore Sun - March 05, 2002
  8. ^ Coach Bud Millikan Endowed Scholarship for Men's Basketball - umd.edu - Retrieved January 31, 2010
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