Doug Gottlieb
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Doug Gottlieb (born January 15, 1976 in Tustin, California) is a former NCAA collegiate basketball player for Oklahoma State and current ESPN analyst and host of the ESPN Radio show The Pulse with Doug Gottlieb.
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[edit] College basketball career
Originally hailing from Orange, California, Gottlieb was the Orange County Player of the Year in 1995 for Tustin High School. Gottlieb was a high school All-American who played in the Magic's Roundball Classic following his senior year. Gottlieb was considered the "Best in the West" point guard, as rated by the Long Beach Press-Telegram. After signing a national letter of intent with Notre Dame, Gottlieb was the starting point guard for Notre Dame during the 1995-1996 college basketball season. He started all but four games for Notre Dame during that season. However during Gottlieb's freshman year at Notre Dame, he stole credit cards from a roommate and fraudulently charged over $900 to those cards. Subsequently, he was kicked off the Notre Dame basketball team and eventually convicted of misdemeanor fraud.[1]
He then transferred to Golden West College, and, according to NCAA rules on college transfer, he was required to sit out the 1996-1997 season.[citation needed] Gottlieb received an AA in business and tranferred to Oklahoma State University. Gottlieb took over as point guard for an OSU team that was 17-15 two consecutive years and the team immediately returned to the NCAA tournament. Gottlieb was the 1998 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and Oklahoma State went to three consecutive NCAA tournaments including the 2000 Elite Eight. Gottlieb was a member of Oklahoma State's basketball team from 1997-2000, leading the nation in assists as a junior after averaging 8.8 assists per game - .2 assists better than his senior season, when he ranked second in the nation with 8.6 assists per game. He currently ranks eighth all-time in NCAA career assists with 947. Gottlieb has been called "The smartest player I ever coached" by legendary head coach Eddie Sutton.[citation needed]
Gottlieb graduated from OSU in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in marketing, and, at the time, he held every assist record at OSU and in the Big 12 conference.
[edit] Professional basketball career
After graduating from college, Gottlieb was picked by the Enid, Oklahoma USBL team the Oklahoma Storm, who made him the first overall draft pick of the 2000 USBL Draft. After a season with the Storm in which he led the USBL in assists and helped the Storm to a 2nd place finish in their first season, Gottlieb took his basketball career overseas, which included a stop in Israel after signing with Maccabi Ra'anana. In 2001 Doug Gottlieb won a Gold Medal as the MVP for the United States team at the Maccabiah Games in Israel.[2]Gottlieb played professionally internationally, in France, Russia and Israel, as well as domestically in the USBL, CBA, ABA and the Los Angeles Lakers summer league team in 2001. Gottlieb won an NEBL championship as well as a Russian Basketball Federation Championship.[citation needed]
Gottlieb married Angie Collier in August 2000, he has twin daughters Harper and Grace born 10 weeks premature in 2006.[citation needed]
[edit] ESPN career
In 2002, Gottlieb co-hosted a midday sports-talk show on an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma radio station WWLS 640-AM known locally as The Sports Animal. Gottlieb was hired by ESPN Radio in September 2003 as co-host of ESPN Radio's GameNight. Currently, he hosts The Pulse with Doug Gottlieb on ESPN Radio Tuesday-Friday from 7 P.M.-10 P.M. ET. He also serves as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN2, additionally appearing ESPNEWS and writing for espn.com. Gottlieb is also a frequent guest on ESPN television shows including SportsCenter and also on College Basketball Gameday Final. [3]
Gottlieb and Syracuse University basketball coach, Jim Boeheim have traded barbs ever since 2005 because of Gottlieb's criticism of Syracuse's soft preseason schedule and Boeheim's comments regarding Gottlieb's difficulties at Notre Dame. Gottlieb and Boeheim refuse to discuss their feud publicly.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament Spotlight: Doug Gottleib. Sports Illustrated (1999). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ 2001 US Maccabiah Basketball Team (August, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ Who is Doug Gottlieb?. ESPN (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ Wolfley, Bob. "SPORTSWAVES Gottlieb's strong words have some calling foul", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2005-03-11. Retrieved on 2007-03-10. (english)
