What was already common knowledge
through-out college basketball across the
country was finally made official! Rice
University head coach Willis Wilson was
named the 2002 Best Dressed College
Basketball Coach in the country by the
internet site CollegeInsider.com.
Internet columnist Angela Lento, as she
has done as a feature story the last few
years, come out with her list of the best
dressed coaches in college basketball
titled "Runway To The Fashionable Four."
In conjunction with March Madness, Lento
picked 64 of the best-dressed college
coaches, seeded them by region, then ran a
series of weekly articles during the NCAA
tournament where only the most dapper
could advance to her championship final.
Wilson, the number-one seed of the Midwest
region, was named the best-dressed, when
he 'defeated' Drexel head coach Bruiser
Flint in Lento's "Fashionable Final."
"It is really quite flattering," Wilson
said after Lento's feature story hit the
World Wide Web on April 2, 2002. "It was
very creative the way she had it all set
up, and the parallels she was able to draw
between the world of college basketball
and the fashion industry. She obviously
had a lot of fun finding and combining the
common themes of those two topics. She did
a good job and I certainly don't have nay
argument with her championship pick."
In the column series, all of which are
archived on the CollegeInsider.com web
site, Wilson advanced to the "Fashionable
Four" by placing ahead of (in order) Doug
Oliver of Idaho State, Cy Alexander of
South Carolina Sate, Kyle Macy of Morehead
State and Melvin Watkins of Texas A&M.
Wilson then won the best-dressed title
with back -to-back decisions over Gary
Waters (Rutgers) in the semi-finals and
then Flint in the championship.
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