Jerry Tarkanian, the towel-chewing Hall-of-Fame college basketball coach who piloted UNLV to the national championship in 1990, and who won 729 games during a 34-year Division I coaching career (1968-2002) at Long Beach State, UNLV, and Fresno State, passed away on Wednesday morning in Las Vegas at age 84.
His passing happened less than four days after that of fellow Hall-of-Fame coach Dean Smith of North Carolina.
Coach Tarkanian, known to one and all as "Tark the Shark," had been in poor health in recent years, having suffered two heart attacks in the past three years.
Besides his success as a coach, "Tark" had numerous run-ins with the NCAA.
Jerry was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
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