Gene Sullivan (basketball), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American basketball coach, college athletics administrator
Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1931
Date of Death: 21-Feb-2002
Profession: basketball coach
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Gene Sullivan (basketball)
- Gene Sullivan (April 21, 1931 – February 21, 2002) was an American basketball coach and collegiate athletic director. Sullivan grew up on the Northwest Side of Chicago and attended the University of Notre Dame.
- After serving with the United States Army in the Korean War, he became a boys' basketball coach at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, and guided them to three Chicago Catholic League titles between 1957 and 1967.
- In 1967, he became an assistant coach to Johnny Dee at the University of Notre Dame, and hoped to succeed Dee as head coach.
- When Dee retired in 1971, however, the school hired Digger Phelps as head coach, and a disappointed Sullivan spent the next few years writing a basketball book and running a limousine company.From 1975 to 1978, Sullivan worked as DePaul University's athletic director.
- He then became athletic director at Loyola University Chicago, and took over as men's basketball coach in 1980.
- In 1985, his Loyola Ramblers, led by Alfredrick Hughes, reached the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where they lost to Georgetown University–their deepest NCAA Tournament run in 31 years.
- Sullivan left Loyola in 1989 with a 149-114 career record.Sullivan spent the next few years as head of recreational programs for the Chicago Park District.
- He later worked as director of an anti-gang youth program with the Cook County State's Attorney's office and as a radio analyst for DePaul basketball radio broadcasts.
- He died of a staph infection at age 70 in February 2002.Loyola returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2018 for the first time since Sullivan's team made its 1985 appearance.
- The school honored the team in 2009.
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