in the Morning on January 2, 2007, Bob Knight singled Newell out as one of the greatest coaches in men's college basketball history. Knight stated that although he had not won as many championships as some other coaches he felt "he was as good as anybody who's ever coached this game." Newell's influence on basketball is often stated in what would seem to be almost exaggerated terms by many Hall of Fame coaches and players. However, his contributions to the game of basketball have been so great that according to many Newell has perhaps had as much or more influence on the game of basketball as any person in the modern era. Head coaching record Basketball Source: Selected bibliography Basketball Methods (1962) with John Benington Basketball: The Sports Playbook (1976) Basketball Post Play (1995) Pete Newell's Defensive Basketball: Winning Techniques and Strategies (Art & Science of Coaching) (2001) See also List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach References Sources Chin, Oliver Clyde. The Tao of Yao: Insights from Basketball's Brightest Big Man, California: Frog, LTD. 2003 Mandelbaum, Michael. The Meaning Of Sports: why americans watch baseball, football and basketball and what they see when they do, New York: Public Affairs 2004 Ramsay, Jack and Halberstam, David. Dr. Jack's Leadership Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Basketball, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. 2004 External links 1915 births 2008 deaths American men's basketball players American Olympic coaches Basketball coaches from California Basketball players from Vancouver California Golden Bears athletic directors California Golden Bears men's basketball coaches Canadian emigrants to the United States Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States Canadian men's basketball coaches Canadian men's basketball players Canadian sportswriters FIBA Hall of Fame inductees Houston Rockets general managers Los Angeles Lakers executives Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball players Michigan State Spartans men's basketball coaches Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees San Francisco Dons baseball coaches San Francisco Dons men's basketball coaches Sportspeople from Los Angeles United States men's national basketball team coaches United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Navy sailors Writers from Los Angeles Writers from Vancouver Basketball players from Los Angeles