Monte Towe

Monte Towe
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Assistant coach
Team	Middle Tennessee State
Biographical details
Born	September 27, 1953 (1953-09-27) (age 58)
Place of birth	Converse, IN
Playing career
1972–1975	NC State
Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1980 1980–1989 1996–1999 1999–2001 2001–2006 2006–2011	NC State (asst.) Florida (asst.) UNC-Asheville (asst.) Santa Fe CC New Orleans NC State (asst.)

Monte Corwin Towe (born September 27, 1953, in Converse, Indiana) is an American basketball coach and retired player.

Towe attended Oak Hill High School in Converse, Indiana. He was the starting point guard on North Carolina State's 1974 NCAA championship team, and also played varsity baseball for NC State, earning All-ACC recognition in basketball and playing on conference championship teams in both sports. (One of his baseball and basketball teammates, Tim Stoddard, would go on to have success as a Major League Baseball pitcher.) In 1975, the 5'7" (1.7 m) Towe received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the year's best college player under 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. Monte Towe and David Thompson are credited with "inventing" the alley-oop. Because dunking was illegal at the time, Towe would throw the ball to Thompson while he was in the air and Thompson would gently drop the ball in the basket. Towe was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the third round of the 1975 ABA Draft and by the Atlanta Hawks in the fourth round of the 1975 NBA Draft. Towe joined Thompson in signing with Denver, for whom he played in 1976 in the final year of the American Basketball Association and in 1977 when Denver joined the NBA. He played in the 1976 ABA All-Star game when the game format was Denver vs. All-Stars.

After his retirement as a player, Towe became an assistant coach under Norm Sloan, first at NC State (1979–80) and then at the University of Florida (1981–89). During the 1990s, he was coach and general manager of two teams in the Global Basketball Association; coach of a professional team in Venezuela (Marinos de Oriente); an assistant coach of the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the Continental Basketball Association under head coach Flip Saunders; coach of two junior college teams; and an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

In 2000, Towe was named head basketball coach at the University of New Orleans. He compiled a 70-78 record over five seasons. In May 2006, he left UNO to become associate head coach at North Carolina State under head coach Sidney Lowe. On April 14, 2011, he was named an assistant coach at Middle Tennessee State University.^[1]

Towe was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

See also

• List of shortest players in National Basketball Association history

References

1. ^ http://www.goblueraiders.com/content.cfm/id/52754

External links

• NC State biography
• Monte Towe player profile at basketball-reference.com
• Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame profile
• "Monte Towe Headed to North Carolina State", CSTV, May 8, 2006

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Name	Towe, Monte
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Date of birth	September 27, 1953
Place of birth	Converse, IN
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