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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Where have you gone Bill Courtney?
Former Bucknell point guard Bill Courtney, a two-time first team All-Patriot League pick (1991, 1992) never made it to the Big Dance as a Bison player. Close as Courtney got was Bucknell's 21-9 season his senior year, when BU lost to Fordham (70-65) in the conference final.

That seems to have set a pattern for Courtney, who is going through a different sort of close-but-no-cigar experience this season, his first as an assistant at Providence.

Courtney took that job at Providence after a long stint as an assistant on Jim Larranaga's staff at George Mason, where he was responsible for the recruiting of many of the players on the Patriots' Final Four team.

In a story in Tuesday's USA Today, Courtney says Mason is lucky that he left:
"I would've convinced Jim along the way to do one little thing differently that wouldn't have worked," Courtney said. "The stars had to be perfectly aligned for this to happen, and part of that destiny was me leaving."
Published at 7:11 AM by Hoop Time.
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