Coach Jim Christian ready to rebuild Boston College basketball

Posted Nov 11, 2014
Long before he succeeded Steve Donahue as Boston College’s 12th men’s basketball coach, Jim Christian was a heady all-state “combo guard’’ who played for Ralph Willard at St. Dominic High in Oyster Bay, N.Y. “He was a real leader, a gym rat, never out of the gym,’’ recalled Willard, the former Holy Cross, Pittsburgh, and Western Kentucky head coach whom Christian lists as his biggest coaching influence. (Boston Globe)

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