Bob Bass

Robert Eugene Bass (January 28, 1929 – August 17, 2018) was a basketball coach and executive who spent his career across college basketball, the American Basketball Association, and the NBA. A graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University, where he captained the basketball team, he later earned a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma. Bass spent fifteen years as head coach at Oklahoma Baptist, guiding the Bison to the NAIA National Finals in 1965, the national title in 1966, and a return to the Finals in 1967, the same year he was named NAIA Coach of the Year. He then moved to the professional ranks, coaching the Denver Rockets of the ABA beginning in 1967.