page_title: Bucky Waters
section_title: Collegiate basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Bucky Waters / Biography / Collegiate basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: A scan from the 1965 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
context_page_description: Raymond Chevalier "Bucky" Waters is an American basketball broadcaster with ESPN and Madison Square Garden Network and a retired basketball coach. He served as head basketball coach at West Virginia University from 1965 to 1969 and at Duke University from 1969 to 1973, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of record of 133–96.
  Waters played basketball at Collingswood High School in Collingswood, New Jersey under coach Jack McCloskey.
context_section_description: As a player, Waters played under head coach Everett Case at North Carolina State University. Only NC State's national championship teams of 1974 and 1983 surpassed the Wolfpack's second-ranked team of the Waters' era.
  As a coach, Waters spent four years at West Virginia University and ten years at Duke University producing winning records and postseason tournament teams at both universities.  Waters is one of only four individuals in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) history to be on conference basketball championship teams at two different universities—first as a player at NC State (1956), then later as an assistant coach at Duke University (1960, 1963, 1964). He is also one of only six ACC players to become an ACC head basketball coach.
  In the 18 years of college basketball as player and coach Waters participated in five conference championships, five NCAA Tournaments, three National Invitation Tournaments, and two Final Fours.  His 14th years of experience as both player and coach in the ACC found him in the top half of his conference every year.  As head coach at West Virginia, Waters maintained a winning record against his former school. His Mountaineers won two of three over the Blue Devils, including a victory in 1966 over the top-ranked, undefeated Blue Devils, that went to the Final Four.
caption: Waters (right) with Duke head coach Vic Bubas in 1965
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