Hall of Fame basketball coach Guy Lewis, who won 592 games in 30 seasons at the University of Houston, died Thursday. He was 93.
Lewis led the Cougars to 14 NCAA tournaments and five Final Fours. Houston lost to North Carolina State in the 1983 national championship game in one of the greatest upsets in college basketball history and fell to Georgetown in the 1984 final. He retired in 1986.
Lewis coached three Hall of Famers including Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon, who were part of the "Phi Slama Jama" teams of the early 1980s.
He also mentored Elvin Hayes, who led the No. 2 Cougars to a 71-69 victory over top-ranked UCLA in 1968, snapping the Bruins' 47-game winning streak.
It was the first nationally televised game in college basketball history and also witnessed by a crowd of 52,693 at the Houston Astrodome.
Dena, his wife of 72 years, died in June.
