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Loyola men's basketball Patsos wins Skip Prosser Award Loyola men's basketball coach Jimmy Patsos was named the 2012 recipient of the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award on Friday night at an awards banquet hosted by CollegeInsider.com at the NCAA Final Four in New Orleans. The award is named in honor and memory of Prosser, who was coach at Loyola, Xavier and Wake Forest before dying in July 2007. It recognizes coaches who achieve success on the basketball court and display moral integrity off it. Patsos recently completed his eighth season at Loyola, a year during which he guided the Greyhounds to a 24-9 overall record and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship for the first time since 1994.

Loyola men's basketball Patsos wins Skip Prosser Award Loyola men's basketball coach Jimmy Patsos was named the 2012 recipient of the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award on Friday night at an awards banquet hosted by CollegeInsider.com at the NCAA Final Four in New Orleans. The award is named in honor and memory of Prosser, who was coach at Loyola, Xavier and Wake Forest before dying in July 2007. It recognizes coaches who achieve success on the basketball court and display moral integrity off it. Patsos recently completed his eighth season at Loyola, a year during which he guided the Greyhounds to a 24-9 overall record and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship for the first time since 1994.

CINCINNATI -- Xavier athletic director Jeff Fogelson immediately knew who he wanted to coach his school's basketball team when Pete Gillen left last week to go to Providence College.The question was: could he get him?The answer officially came yesterday, when Skip Prosser, an assistant at Xavier for eight years before becoming head coach at Loyola College one year ago, was introduced as Gillen's replacement.The challenge for Xavier was prying Prosser away from Loyola, where he led the Greyhounds to a 17-13 record and their first NCAA tournament appearance in his one season as coach.

On February 15, 2008, HOWARD W. SR.; beloved husband of Josephine Prosser Brown and the late Ruby L. Brown; devoted father of Thomas A. Brown, Ann Neathery-Martin, Howard W. Brown, Jr., Robert R. Brown and Lynn Joy Brown; step-father of David and Barry Prosser and Joanne Lupus; devoted grandfather of a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Visiting at the Lassahn Funeral Home, 7401 Belair Road, on Saturday, 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Christian Wake Services to be held on Sunday, at 3:30 p.m. Mass of Christian burial at St. Michaels Church, Overlea on Monday, at 10 a.m. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park.

CINCINNATI -- As Skip Prosser watched his former Loyola players warming up before yesterday's game at Xavier, he talked about mixed feelings, about how strange it felt to watch the players who gave him a ride to last season's NCAA tournament preparing to compete against him.After Prosser walked around the Cincinnati Gardens floor to shake hands with each Greyhound and wish him luck, Prosser's new team showed no such warmth.Behind a pressing, trapping, man-to-man defense and a roster packed with quickness and depth, Xavier set the tone by scoring the game's first 11 points, and the Musketeers had their way throughout an 86-51 whipping of the Greyhounds before 7,663.

One minute, Skip Prosser was on his way to watch the Final Four in Charlotte, N.C. The next minute, the phone rang and he was headed to Cincinnati. And within hours, Xavier University had regained an old friend, while Loyola College had lost the coach that put its beleaguered basketball program back on its feet this season.Prosser, who spent eight years as the top assistant at Xavier before taking over at Loyola, will be introduced at a Xavier news conference today as the new head coach of the Musketeers.

Loyola coach Skip Prosser, who led the Greyhounds to the NCAA tournament in his first season as coach, interviewed for the head coaching job at Xavier yesterday, Loyola athletic director Joseph Boylan confirmed last night.The Xavier position officially opened yesterday, when Pete Gillen left the Cincinnati school to become head coach at Providence. Prosser, 43, was Gillen's assistant at Xavier for eight seasons.Prosser was in Ohio yesterday speaking to Xavier officials, Boylan said."Basically, right now he's still the coach [at Loyola]

Skip Prosser, the new basketball coach at Loyola College, knows that the next two weeks will be some of the most important he'll spend with the Greyhounds.Prosser was introduced to players, fellow employees, alumni and boosters at Reitz Arena yesterday afternoon. He and athletic director Joe Boylan then met to iron out specifics of a multi-year deal that will be made official next week.Prosser, who spent the past eight seasons as an assistant at Xavier, was to travel today to New Orleans and the Final Four, and it's not a social visit.

CINCINNATI -- Skip Prosser recalls it as the most hectic, emotional time of his professional life.One day, Prosser was enjoying the improbable achievement that capped his first year as a head men's basketball coach. He transformed Loyola College from a 2-25 doormat into an NCAA tournament team.The next day, Prosser's old boss, Pete Gillen, announced he was leaving Xavier University to take over at Providence. Within hours, Xavier inquired about Prosser's availability, and Prosser flew to Cincinnati to interview for the Musketeers' head coaching job. The next day, Prosser announced he was leaving Loyola to head back to Xavier.

A conversation with Skip Prosser can roam in many directions. His thoughts drift from the values of man-to-man defense to the challenges of fatherhood. He quotes Robert Frost, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Red Auerbach with the same enthusiasm. He is equally comfortable with a history book or a clipboard.When talking about the mission Prosser has assumed as the men's basketball coach at Loyola College, watch your step. It's fair to remind him about last season, a 2-25 season that was the worst in the Greyhounds' 85-year history.

Winston-Salem, N.C. -- The reminders are constant. From the banner with his name inscribed that hangs from the rafters here at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum to his image on the tapes from last season's games used to scout Wake Forest's coming Atlantic Coast Conference opponents. Wake Forest@Maryland Tonight, 9, chs. 54, 20, 1300 AM, 105.7 FM Line: Maryland by 6 1/2 Records: Wake (11-4, 1-1 ACC); Maryland (10-7, 0-2 ACC) Recovering from tragedy Army women's basketball (2006-07)

Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser, who took Loyola to its only NCAA tournament berth, died yesterday afternoon, the university confirmed. Prosser, 56, collapsed in his office and was rushed to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Prosser had been jogging on the Kentner Stadium track adjacent to his office in the Manchester Athletic Center about noon. A staff member found him unresponsive at about 12:45 p.m. A doctor from Student Health Services was summoned and used a defibrillator to try to revive him. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1:41 p.m., the university said.

8 -- Finalists, including five individual champions, for Loyola's wrestling team in its upset win in a 19-team field that included then-No. 9 Hereford and 10-time state champion Owings Mills at the Dec. 10 Parkville Invitational Tournament. Winning titles were Jesse Perseghin (103 pounds), Colin Schuster (119), Rob Mister (125), James Davies (135) and Alex Tiernan (140), with runners-up Brian Frantz (130), Dan Peters-Rodbell (171) and Pete Prosser (215). 9 -- Assists for All-Metro Player of The Year DaJuan Summers of No. 7 McDonogh, to go with his team-high 21 points, in a 74-52 loss to Paul VI of Virginia on Dec. 6.

Coach: Skip Prosser, fifth season at school (94-35), 13th overall (259-113) 2004-05 record: 27-6, 13-3 (second in ACC; NCAA second round) Returning starters: Senior G Justin Gray, senior C Eric Williams Sun prediction: NCAA Sweet 16 Why it will happen: They don't have the notoriety of Duke's duo, but Gray and Williams would be considered the premier outside-inside combination in any other conference. For all of the attention paid Chris Paul, Gray was a first-team All-ACC selection as a sophomore, and averaged 16.0 points last season.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The pachyderm in question has taken on a different context, but the riddle regarding enormous tasks remains operable in the world according to Skip Prosser. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Prosser posted that inspiration in his office at Loyola College 11 years ago, and he has dusted it off at Wake Forest. Then, it was an allusion to the wildly improbable, the NCAA tournament. Now, the imagery visualizes the daily grind required to aspire to that which goes unspoken.

As the coach of Wake Forest, Skip Prosser admits that he has a pretty myopic viewpoint of college basketball. He knows his team and whoever the fourth-ranked Demon Deacons happen to play next. Earlier this week, Prosser would have comfortably discussed the challenge of trying to slow Clemson's Sharrod Ford, who the Demon Deacons will have to deal with tomorrow, but any conversation about what his team will need to do to beat Maryland on Tuesday was essentially off limits. "Haven't seen [the Terps]

Loyola College athletic director Joe Boylan said yesterday that he hopes to hire a men's basketball coach next week.Boylan is seeking a replacement for Skip Prosser, who became the head coach at Xavier last week. Prosser was the top assistant for eight seasons at Xavier, before assuming his first head-coaching position at Loyola last year."We're starting to move, getting permission to talk to people who have called and things like that," Boylan said. "The interest has been good. It's been what you'd expect after the year we had."

The basketball renaissance at College Park is drawing national attention, but there appears to be another one in its embryo stage developing at Charles Street and Cold Spring Lane.Everybody knows about the University of Maryland's 9-3 start and its 2-1 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference with wins over Georgia Tech and Florida State.That's hardly shocking to those who have observed closely as coach Gary Williams has built up the Terps. But the turnabout at Loyola College has taken people by surprise.

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COLLEGE PARK - Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser wondered if the reputation the Atlantic Coast Conference carried as one of the top college basketball leagues would square with reality as he saw it. Prosser had spent seven seasons at Xavier in the Atlantic 10 before making the leap to Winston-Salem as the ACC's lone rookie this season. And it wasn't long before he noticed what the fuss was all about. While scouting Duke, he watched forward Dahntay Jones - the former Big East Conference Rookie of the Year at Rutgers - working as the Blue Devils' fifth scoring option.