(k-state) Legendary Kansas State men’s basketball coach Fred “Tex” Winter passed away on Wednesday at the age of 96 in Manhattan.
A multiple Hall of Fame inductee, including the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Winter spent more than six decades coaching both college and professional basketball, which included his famous stint as an assistant coach to famed head coach Phil Jackson on 11 NBA Championship teams with the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers. He was the Head Mens basketball Coach at Kansas State from 1954 thru 1968. An innovator of the “Triangle Offense,” Winter earned a reputation as one of the most creative offensive coaches in the land, and in 1962, published a book on the offense entitled The Triple-Post Offense.
