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Ricky Byrdsong

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American basketball player and coach

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According to Wikipedia, Ricky Byrdsong was an American college basketball coach and insurance executive. He served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Detroit Mercy and Northwestern University , compiling a career coaching record of 89–163. Byrdsong was the first African American head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball program. On July 2, 1999, he was shot during a racially motivated killing spree and died the next day.

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