{"id":1132,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1132","headline":"LSU coaching legend Dale Brown dies at 90","dek":"Brown won 448 games over 25 seasons and led the Tigers to two Final Fours, coaching stars like Shaquille O'Neal and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.","body":"Dale Brown, the winningest basketball coach in LSU history, has died at the age of 90.\n\nBrown spent 25 seasons leading the LSU program, racking up 448 career wins, the second-most in SEC history. He guided the Tigers to two Final Four appearances, in 1980 and 1986, cementing his place as a Hall of Fame coach.\n\nAmong the players who came through his program were Shaquille O'Neal and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, two of the most recognizable names to wear an LSU uniform. Brown's tenure helped build LSU basketball into a program capable of competing on the national stage, and his win total still stands as the benchmark for the school nearly three decades after he stepped away from the sideline.\n\nBrown's death closes the book on one of the defining coaching careers in LSU athletics history, leaving behind a legacy measured in Final Four banners and the players who credit him with shaping their careers.","published_at":"2026-10-23T21:33:45.991871+00:00","source_count":5,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"BREAKING: LSU basketball legend Dale Brown passes away at 90","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/breaking-lsu-basketball-legend-dale-210322932.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Dale Brown, winningest LSU basketball coach who Shaquille O’Neal played under, dead at 90","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/sports/dale-brown-winningest-lsu-basketball-coach-who-coached-shaquille-oneal-dead-at-90/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Legendary LSU basketball coach Dale Brown dies at 90","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7717994/2026/10/23/lsu-dale-brown-obit-basketball-coach/"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Dale Brown dies at 90: LSU's all-time winningest basketball coach led Tigers to two Final Four apperances","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/dale-brown-dies-lsu-all-time-winningest-basketball-coach/"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Dale Brown, LSU's winningest basketball coach, dies at 90","url":"https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/50259738/dale-brown-lsu-winningest-basketball-coach-dies-90"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Legendary LSU basketball Coach Dale Brown dies","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/legendary-lsu-basketball-coach-dale-183232468.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Former LSU men's basketball coach Dale Brown, program's all-time wins leader, dies at 90","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/mens-college-basketball/article/former-lsu-mens-basketball-coach-dale-brown-programs-all-time-wins-leader-dies-at-90-184613814.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"LSU sports community reacts to the death of legendary coach Dale Brown","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lsu-sports-community-reacts-death-200240416.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}