Former KU basketball assistant Sam Miranda dies
By J-W Staff Reports, KUSports.com, Thursday, May 28, 2009
1970's: Ted Owens, (on knee at right) head basketball coach at the University of Kansas, with assistants Bob Frederick and Sam Miranda in Lawrence, KS.
Former Kansas basketball assistant Sam Miranda died Thursday in Lawrence. He was 78.
Miranda was the assistant coach in charge of recruiting for KU from 1964-76. During his 13 years coaching under Ted Owens, KU won the Big 8 conference five times and also reached the Final Four in 1971 and 1974.
Miranda played collegiately at Indiana, where he earned second-team Big Ten honors in 1951. He also was selected to tour with the College All-Americans and the Harlem Globetrotters in 1952.
He was inducted as a player into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1973.