Tributes Pour in for Longtime SEC Basketball Broadcaster Joe Dean Jr., Dead at 71

Tributes pour in for longtime SEC basketball broadcaster Joe Dean Jr., dead at 71

Credit: Tim BrandoJoe Dean Jr., who followed in his father’s footsteps to become an SEC basketball broadcaster and who also had a successful career as a coach and athletic director, has died at the age of 71. Dean Jr. played basketball for the Mississippi State Bulldogs under coach Kermit Davis Sr. and parlayed that into a coaching career, first as an MSU graduate assistant, then as an assistant coach at Kentucky. He was a member of the coaching…

Joe Dean Jr., longtime SEC basketball broadcaster, BSC coach, AD, has died

Joe Dean Jr., a longtime college basketball broadcaster who also spent 17 years as athletics director at Birmingham-Southern College, has died. He was 71.

Joe Dean Jr., Son Of Former LSU Athletic Director And A Former Player And Coach, Passes Away

TIGER RAG NEWS SERVICES Joe Dean Jr., who followed in his father's footsteps throughout his career, died on Monday at age 71 after some health issues. Dean grew up in Baton Rouge, where his father Joe Dean of Brazil, Indiana, settled after playing basketball for the Tigers from 1948-52. A two-time All-Southeastern Conference player for

Former MSU basketball player, broadcaster Joe Dean Jr. dies

Mississippi State basketball alum and longtime coach and broadcaster Joe Dean Jr. died Sunday at 71-years-old.  Joe Dean Jr. Photo Courtesy of Tim Brando/X Dean was a three-year letter winner with MSU men’s basketball in the 1970s, and was the first recipient of the James H. McCarthy award for leadership, according to a social media post from MSU athletics. He spent time as an assistant coach at MSU, and at the University of Kentucky, where he s…