Billy Duane Tubbs (March 5, 1935 – November 1, 2020) was an American men's college basketball coach.
From there he went to the University of North Texas to serve as assistant coach under Gene Robbins[1] and for one year under Bill Blakeley.
He became the ninth coach in NCAA history to record 100 wins at three different schools (Oklahoma 333, TCU 156 and Lamar 121).
In Blakeley's first season at North Texas, Tubbs, with newly hired assistant coach Jimmy Gales, helped turn around a team that had been 6-20 in 1975, to 22-4 in 1976, averaging 96 points a game – the second highest in the nation.
[10] In a halftime ceremony on February 19, 2011, Lamar dedicated the Montagne Center basketball floor as the "Billy & Pat Tubbs Court", named in honor of the coach and his wife.
[11][12] During the same ceremony the school also honored Tubbs's 1978-79 Cardinals squad, the first team in Lamar University history to advance to the NCAA tournament.
[13] The long-time TCU basketball coach is immortalized in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by 'Fake Billy Tubbs' a recurring bit character on the prominent local sports radio station The Ticket.