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Rollie Massimino, 82, Dies; Rode Dark Horse Villanova to Basketball Glory

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Rollie Massimino, who coached Villanova University to one of the greatest upsets in N.C.A.A. basketball history, the defeat of powerful Georgetown to win the 1985 national championship, died on Wednesday in hospice care in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 82.

Villanova announced his death on its website.

Massimino, who struggled with lung cancer and its complications in recent years, had coached through last season at Keiser University in West Palm Beach, where he came out of retirement to found its basketball program in 2006 and turned it into a small-college power.

Keiser was the final stop in a long career that began when he was a high school coach.