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Anthony Guy Bennett (born June 1, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player and since 2009 the head coach of the University of Virginia men's team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2019. Bennett is a three-time recipient of the Henry Iba Award, two-time Naismith College Coach of the Year, and two-time AP Coach of the Year. Bennett is the all-time wins leader at Virginia, and holds or shares records for single-season wins and career winning percentage at both Virginia and Washington State. He is one of three coaches in history (with Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski) to lead his program to ten or more consecutive winning ACC records and is one of three coaches (also with Smith and Krzyzewski) to be named ACC Coach of the Year four or more times.From his first day at Virginia, he set the goal of building "a program that lasts." Originally inheriting the worst UVA team since 1967, his Cavaliers have had four 30-win seasons, won the NCAA tournament championship with a 35–3 team in 2019, won ACC tournaments in 2014 and in 2018, and have won or shared 6 ACC regular season titles. Known for coaching defensive intensity, Bennett has been ranked the top defensive coach in college basketball by ESPN Insider and a CBS Sports poll of head coaches. The style of basketball he teaches has often been compared to a boa constrictor choking out opponents, and his teams are known for their unselfish play, defense-first philosophy, and tempo control.As a 5'11" point guard, Bennett ranks first in NCAA history for career three-point field goal accuracy at 49.7%, shooting above 50% from range in both his junior and senior seasons. He started for the United States national team at the 1991 Pan American Games, was awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's top player under six feet tall, and was named Academic All-American of the Year. Bennett starred for the Green Bay Phoenix under his father, Dick Bennett, who later took Wisconsin to the 2000 Final Four using an earlier version of the packline defense seen today at Virginia. Bennett played three years in the NBA for the Charlotte Hornets and after an injury, several more professionally in Australia and New Zealand where he started coaching. He has since coached several players at the college level who've gone on to be known for shooting prowess in the NBA, such as Malcolm Brogdon (eighth 50–40–90 shooter in NBA history), Joe Harris (led NBA in three-point accuracy in 2018–19 and in 2020–21) and Klay Thompson (one-half of the Splash Brothers). Both Harris and Thompson have won the Three-Point Contest at the NBA All-Star Game. Biography and playing career College Bennett, a point guard, played for his father Dick Bennett at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UWGB) following his high school career at Stevens Point Area Senior High and Preble High School. The Bennetts led the Phoenix to an NCAA tournament berth and two appearances in the NIT. During his time there, the Green Bay Phoenix had a record of 87–34 (.719) en route to Bennett being twice named as the conference's Player of the Year. He was awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award given to the nation's most outstanding senior under six feet tall and was named the 1992 GTE Academic All-American of the year. He also started for a bronze medal-winning 1991 Pan-American Games team led by Gene Keady. He finished his collegiate career as the Mid-Continent Conference's all-time leader in points (2,285) and assists (601), and still ranks as the entire NCAA's all-time leader in 3-point field goal accuracy. He made 80 of 150 (53.3%) three-point field goal attempts in his junior season and repeated the feat of hitting over half of his three-point attempts during his senior season, making 95 of 186 (51.1%). He was also incredibly accurate on two-point field goal attempts for a guard, connecting on 502 of 917 (54.7%) two-point attempts for his college career. Professional Bennett went on to be selected in the 1992 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets. He spent three seasons (1992–1995) with steadily increasing playing time for the Hornets as the backup point guard to Muggsy Bogues (the Hornets' all-time leader in assists and steals) before a foot injury ended Bennett's NBA career. With an eye toward returning to the NBA, Bennett left for Australia in 1996 to play for the Sydney Kings of Australia's National Basketball League while rehabbing his ankle but the contract fell through within ten days of arriving and Bennett soon moved to New Zealand to briefly play for a team called the "Burger King Kings" in Auckland. Bennett has joked that the team was paid in Whoppers. He then joined the North Harbour Vikings, became its star player, and in his second year there became a dual-role player and head coach. He completed his playing career as a two-time New Zealand NBL All-Star Five honoree and a two-time Keith Carr Trophy winner for being the league's Most Outstanding Guard in both his years there. Coaching career Bennett wanted to understand everything about the game of basketball to the point that, even as an NBA player, teammates felt he would rather learn and study the game than participate in it. Bennett's teams, especially at Virginia, are known for their motion offense and stifling defense which features his version of the "pack line" defensive strategy famously devised by his father. The pack line is designed to clog up potential driving lanes to the paint by forcing ball handlers to the middle of the floor where more "help" is concentrated. It forces opposing teams to pass and shoot well, while limiting dribble penetration and post play. Coaching beginnings In 1998, Bennett continued as head coach of the North Harbour Kings (who had changed their name from Vikings) but retired early as a player. His time there taught him he was able to coach without the anxiety he had seen his father experience coaching back in Wisconsin, and convinced him that he could undertake the stressful life of a coach while maintaining his integrity and peace of mind. After the 1999 season, he returned to the U.S. to become his father's team manager so that they could spend time together. Tony Bennett was then able to get a firsthand experience of Wisconsin's run to the 2000 Final Four as a part of the staff under Dick Bennett. After his father retired, Bo Ryan retained Bennett on his staff and there he remained until 2003, when Dick Bennett came out of retirement to coach Washington State. After one season as assistant coach, Bennett was designated as his father's successor and promoted to associate head coach. Washington State Tony Bennett accepted the position of head coach at Washington State when his father retired in 2006. Washington State's success immediately skyrocketed under the younger Bennett, and his 26 wins in both the 2006–07 and 2007–08 seasons tied a 66-year-old school record set by the team that reached the Championship Game of the 1941 NCAA tournament. 2006.... Discover the Steven D Bennett popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Steven D Bennett books.

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  • Events Concerning the Last Evening of Molly Malone synopsis, comments

    Events Concerning the Last Evening of Molly Malone

    Steven D. Bennett

    Molly never knew she had so many enemies amongst her family, friends and associates. Unbeknownst to her, one of them has murder on their mind, and though she has her suspicions, sh...

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    The Shores of Saturn

    Steven D. Bennett

    In the border town of Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, a man becomes involved with a homeless kid whose only goal, besides panhandling for beer and staying stoned, is to get bac...

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    Mannequin Man

    Steven D. Bennett

    A man is driving, following a distant dot that stays on the far horizon. The road ends at a shopping mall, and upon entering he meets his father, whose morning ritual was to walk t...

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    Humor of the Gospels

    Steven D. Bennett

    If you find the bible to be slow, boring and hard to understand...maybe it's just you. Or maybe you haven't found the right commentary. Until you do, buy Humor of the Gospels and y...

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    Better Verse

    Steven D. Bennett

    If this not be the better verse thine eyes hath sought or seen, let if fall upon the cracks, unbought, to slide between. But if a smile befall thy lips while reading any verse, con...

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    Coming Correct

    Steven D. Bennett

    Ray is unwillingly pulled into conversations with women in the office via his friend, Paul, who is outwardly flirtatious and at times obscene. Focused only on an upcoming promotion...

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    Great Minds

    Steven D. Bennett

    A TwilightZoneesque story. Sebastian Sagescientist, geniusis hard at work on the problem of global warming, on which he believes he has a solution. He is approached by a man repres...

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    Love in the Timeline

    Steven D. Bennett

    In a future where people are obsessed with perfection and youth, a man becomes frustrated by his wife's seeming indifference to both. Surrounded by perfection, he finds it difficul...

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    Plot Twist

    Steven D. Bennett

    Two men working construction in San Diego are given the job of remodeling a La Jolla home once owned by mystery writer Raymond Chandler. When the story of Chandler's supposedly bur...

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    ROAR

    Bruce Wagner

    A new novel by Hollywood’s "master of satire."The myth of an epic, public lifeits triumphs and tragediesis a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of...

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    Cat Had a Tail

    Steven D. Bennett

    A man, bored with the literary affectations of his girlfriend and her friends, finds his mind wandering and wondering about the other "cats" surrounding him at an open mic night in...

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    The Taste of Broadway

    Steven D. Bennett

    Brian Holloway was a star of the stage, until the night Claudia Graves came out of the darkness. Now he’s a hollow shell of the man he was, yet oddly never happier, for in his dimi...

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    Baseball at Bull Run

    Steven D. Bennett

    The day is July 21, 1861, and two great armies have met at Manassas Junction to begin a war which will not only kill thousands of men, but which will decide the future of the natio...

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    Night Light

    Steven D. Bennett

    Artists Becker, Giles and Sugiyama began their journeys together, but time and talent have taken them on separate paths. “Sugi” has been hailed as a genius, Giles his equallyfamous...

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    The Green Flash

    Steven D. Bennett

    Time is running out for a man running away. Divorced, desperate and carrying more baggage than can fit into his new Camaro, he leaves his family and exwife for Los Angeles and the ...

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    Cursed

    Steven D. Bennett

    Long before 'That 70's Show', there was the 70's. And the kids living then were no different from those living now. Lighter on technology, perhaps, as Facebook was a phone in a bed...

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    Rosarito Rendezvous

    Steven D. Bennett

    A man follows his soontobe divorced wife and her new lover to Mexico to ruin their romantic weekend. But his motive is more than jealousy, for the impending divorce would not only ...

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    Throne

    Steven D. Bennett

    A man with a terminal illness returns from the Holy Land with an artifact he believes has the ability to heal. Supposedly made by a carpenter in Nazareth some twothousand years bef...

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    No Change

    Steven D. Bennett

    A man is waiting on his wife hand and foot, as he has done for decades. But the years have brought sickness and the possibility of death, which also brings guilt at a future finall...

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    The Chuck-It List

    Steven D. Bennett

    Do you find yourself longing to get out of your rut and see the world? STOP!!!!You've been infected by the latest epidemic: activity. Spurred on by inanities like 'The Bucket List,...

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    Humor of the Gospels Daily Study

    Steven D. Bennett

    Have you ever wanted to learn more about the bible but discovered you were too lazy to think? You're in luck, for in 'Humor of the GospelsDaily Study', an almost annual walk throug...

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    You Be the Dick

    Steven D. Bennett

    You're a rookie detective, and your grizzled veteran partner isn't thrilled at having to change your diapers after every murder. Nevertheless, he's walking you through your first c...

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    Parrot Investigations

    Steven D. Bennett

    Zach Law is suffering not only because of an unseasonal San Diego heatwave, but also due to Brock the Parrot’s inappropriate squawking and his young assistant Allie's tempting body...

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    Starlight

    Steven D. Bennett

    Hollywood star and icon Cole Carpenter is returning to Newbury, the home of his youth, to be , honored. Among those awaiting his arrival is Bob, his best friend and biggest fan, wh...

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    Keeping the Doctor Away

    Steven D. Bennett

    A musical melodrama, for three men and three women. The villain, Willis Winesap, and his partner, Goldie Jonagold, arrive at a small town looking to run a scam. Intercepting a lett...