John Wooden, the legendary and iconic coach of the UCLA teams that won 10 NCAA men's basketball national championships (including seven in a row from 1967 to 1973) and, at one stretch, won 88 consecutive games, passed away on Friday night at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles from natural causes at the age of 99.
Coach Wooden had been hospitalized since May 26.
Over 27 years, he won 620 games, including the aforementioned 88 straight games, and coach several of the collegiate game's greatest players, such as Bill Walton and Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).
He was an All-American basketball player at Purdue University from 1930-32.
John Wooden would become the first person to be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.
The legendary Wizard of Westwood will never be forgotten.
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