Tex Winter

Tex Winter

Winter with Marquette in 1953
Biographical details
Born	(1922-02-25)February 25, 1922 near Wellington, Texas, U.S.
Died	October 10, 2018(2018-10-10) (aged 96) Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.
Playing career
1940–1942	Compton JC
1942–1943	Oregon State
1946–1947	USC
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1947–1951	Kansas State (assistant)
1951–1953	Marquette
1953–1968	Kansas State
1968–1971	Washington
1971–1973	Houston Rockets
1973–1978	Northwestern
1978–1983	Long Beach State
1983-1984	LSU (assistant)
1985–1999	Chicago Bulls (assistant)
1999–2004	Los Angeles Lakers (assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall	453–334 (college) 51–78 (NBA)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
As coach: 6× Big Eight Holiday Tournament (1951, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964) 4× NCAA Regional – Final Four (1948, 1951, 1958, 1964) 8× Big Seven/Big Eight regular season (1956, 1958-1961, 1963, 1964, 1968) As assistant coach: 9× NBA champion (1991–1993, 1996–1998, 2000–2002) Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award (2010) As consultant: NBA champion (2009)
Awards
UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year (1958) 3× Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year (1958-1960)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2011
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2010

Morice Fredrick "Tex" Winter (February 25, 1922 – October 10, 2018) was an American basketball coach and innovator of the triangle offense.^[1] He was a head coach in college basketball for 30 years before becoming an assistant coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an assistant to Phil Jackson on nine NBA championship teams with the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers. Winter was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.