Clarence Gaines

Clarence E. " Big House " Gaines ( born May 21, 1923 in Paducah, Kentucky, † April 18, 2005 in Winston- Salem, North Carolina) was an American college basketball coach.

As the coach of Winston -Salem State University, he won 1946-1983 828 games, which he is surpassed in college basketball only by Dean Smith, Adolph Rupp, Bobby Knight and Jim Phelan. Among his former players is one of the well-known former NBA player Earl Monroe. On 3 May 1982 Gaines was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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