Roy Williams: Neil Dougherty was ‘true gentleman’
Posted Jul 9, 2011
Native Kansan Neil Dougherty, who worked as head basketball coach at Texas Christian University from 2002-08 after seven seasons on Roy Williams’ staff at Kansas University, died Tuesday while jogging in Indianapolis. He was 50. “I’m deeply shocked and saddened,” UNC coach Williams said Friday from Akron, Ohio, where he was attending the LeBron James Skills Academy.
(Lawrence Journal-World)
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