{"id":39711,"date":"2025-12-31T05:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39711"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:33:21","slug":"former-coach-and-hall-of-fame-finalist-jerry-welsh-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39711","title":{"rendered":"Former coach and Hall of Fame finalist Jerry Welsh dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"timestamp \">Dec 30, 2025, 05:39 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Welsh, a former longtime men&#8217;s basketball coach at SUNY Potsdam and a recent finalist for enshrinement into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh&#8217;s son, Tim, who is a college men&#8217;s basketball analyst for ESPN, confirmed the news on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh coached at Potsdam from 1968 to 1991 and guided the Bears to the NCAA Division III national title in 1981 and 1986, a season in which his team finished a perfect 32-0. The Bears&#8217; win streak stretched to 60 into the 1986-87 season.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh&#8217;s teams at Potsdam were NCAA Division III runners-up in 1979, 1982 and 1985. Overall, he was 494-141 over his 22 seasons at the school.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh coached Iona for four seasons, starting with the 1991-92 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh was among 17 finalists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame&#8217;s 2025 class, and he is on the ballot for enshrinement into the 2026 class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 30, 2025, 05:39 PM ET Jerry Welsh, a former longtime men&#8217;s basketball coach at SUNY Potsdam and a recent finalist for enshrinement into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 89. Welsh&#8217;s son, Tim, who is a college men&#8217;s basketball analyst for ESPN, confirmed the news on Tuesday. Welsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[3223,2527,3964,21487,3402,12549,4798],"class_list":{"0":"post-39711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-coach","9":"tag-dies","10":"tag-fame","11":"tag-finalist","12":"tag-hall","13":"tag-jerry","14":"tag-welsh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}