Bud Millikan

"Bud" Millikan (October 12, 1920 – January 28, 2010) was the head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team from 1950 to 1967.

Millikan was born in Maryville, Missouri, and played on the Maryville High School basketball team that won the 1937 Missouri State High School Basketball Championship at a time when there were no divisions in state tournament play.

[1] At Oklahoma State he was an All-American, president of the student body, and captain of the baseball and basketball teams.

Millikan who had been a member of the Oklahoma State ROTC did not serve in World War II because of asthma.

His successor Lefty Driesell added a few thousand seats around the court, raising the hometown decibel level.