{"id":534720,"date":"2026-01-13T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/534720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:59:11","slug":"temple-mens-basketball-assistant-coach-bill-courtney-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/534720\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple men\u2019s basketball assistant coach Bill Courtney dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theamerican.org\/news\/2026\/1\/13\/mens-basketball-statement-on-passing-of-temple-assistant-coach-bill-courtney.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a statement<\/a>, Tim Pernetti, commissioner of the American Athletic Conference, said Courtney had \u201ca profound impact on his colleagues and student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe helped lead Miami to the Final Four and programs to nine postseason tournaments, but his affect [sic] on the lives of the student-athletes and coaches who worked with him will be his ultimate legacy,\u201d Pernetti said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CanesHoops\/status\/2011107876568514949?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\">University of Miami<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTdRaKgDfQM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell University<\/a> paid tribute to Courtney through multiple social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>Before coaching, Courtney played college basketball at Bucknell University, where he earned All-Patriot League honors as a senior. He was later inducted into the Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, Tim Pernetti, commissioner of the American Athletic Conference, said Courtney had \u201ca profound impact on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,73701],"class_list":{"0":"post-534720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-temple-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115890039275133505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}