height_ft statvalue nationality birth_date career_start years draft_year team draft_pick number college stats_league name statlabel high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end position draft_round letter height_in bbr article_title
6 117 -rrb- 45 -lrb- 1.3 apg -rrb- -lrb- 3.3 ppg -rrb- 36 -lrb- 1.0 rpg american 12 december 1939 1961 1961 -- 1967 y 1962 -- 1964 1964 -- 1966 1966 1961 new bullets -lrb- epbl -rrb- allentown jets -lrb- epbl -rrb- york knicks trenton colonials -lrb- epbl -rrb- camden 33 15 holy cross -lrb- 1958 -- 1961 -rrb- nba george blaney points rebounds assists st. -rrb- peter 's -lrb- jersey city , new jersey 175 jersey city , new jersey new york knicks 1967 point guard 4 b 1 blanege01 george blaney

george blaney

george r. blaney -lrb- born november 12 , 1939 -rrb- is an american former basketball player and coach .
blaney played high school basketball at st. peter 's preparatory school in jersey city .
after playing basketball at the college of the holy cross during the late 1950s and early 1960s , the 6 ' 1 '' blaney spent one season with the new york knicks of the national basketball association .
in 1967-68 he served as head coach at stonehill college and dartmouth college 1969-1971 .
from 1972 to 1994 , he served as head coach of holy cross , compiling a 357-276 overall record .
he then became head coach at seton hall university , where he led the team to the nit twice before being fired following the 1996-97 season .
in 2000 , he began serving as an assistant head coach at the university of connecticut .
blaney , while filling in for jim calhoun , made history at uconn on january 23 , 2010 when uconn defeated the no. 1 ranked university of texas longhorns 88-74 .
it marked the first time that an opponent had come to gampel pavilion ranked first in the nation , and was subsequently the first time uconn ousted the nation 's top team at home .
blaney also filled in for calhoun for 11 games in the 2011-12 season .
he is credited with the first three games of the 2011-12 big east conference season , when calhoun sat out a conference-imposed suspension for recruiting violations .
he also served as interim coach throughout february 2012 , when calhoun went on medical leave ; those eight games , however , are credited to calhoun .
blaney announced his retirement on june 13 , 2013 .
