Jud Heathcote, who started his Hall of Fame coaching career in Washington, died Monday in Spokane. He was 90.
Heathcote won more than 400 games as a college coach at Montana and Michigan State. He guided a Michigan State team that featured Magic Johnson to the 1979 NCAA championship and was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
Heathcote was a three-sport athlete at South Kitsap High School who played basketball at Washington State in the late 1940s.
He coached for 14 seasons at West Valley High School before joining the WSU coaching staff as an assistant.