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The legend of Jimmy Patsos Loyola (Md.) went 1-27 the year before the longtime Maryland assistant took over in 2004. Now the Greyhounds are back in the NCAA tournament.
Jimmy Patsos has his Loyola Greyhounds in the NCAA tournament for only the second time in the program's history.
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Jimmy Patsos had Gary Williams's back when he assisted the Maryland coach in the 1990s.
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Jimmy Patsos was an assistant when Maryland won the national championship in 2002. Juan Dixon is shown here leading the celebration at an on-campus rally after the title. Patsos is at right.
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Jimmy Patsos and Loyola are slated to face mighty Ohio State on Thursday night in their NCAA tournament opener.
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Jimmy Patsos and Maryland star Juan Dixon yell from the sidelines during a Terrapins game.
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Sometimes they didn't always agree: Chris McCray makes his unhappiness known with assistant Jimmy Patsos after he's taken out of a loss to ACC rival Duke in 2004.
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Jimmy Patsos on his Greyhounds: “These are the second-best kids on each [high school] team, and that’s fine — because that’s what I’ve been all my life. We’ve been the second-best bar, the second-best program. And let me tell you: It’s better than being the 10th-best.”
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Jimmy Patsos and his team gesture for possession to an official in the first half against Fairfield in the championshiop game of the MAAC tournament, won by Loyola.
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Jimmy Patsos probably is delighting the media with his remarks at a news conference on March 12. After the MAAC title game, he referenced, among others, Malcolm X, Bobby Seale, Red Auerbach and the movie "Love Story" during his postgame remarks.
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“Jimmy,” said his former boss, Gary Williams, “took one of the toughest jobs in basketball — a team that had won one game, that didn’t have a great tradition, that didn’t have great resources — and turned it around.”
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