They Call Me Big House

About this book

Coach Clarence "Big House" Gaines spent 47 years as coach and athletic director at Winston-Salem State University. As such he became the fifth-winningest coach in NCAA basketball history (behind Adolph Rupp Dean Smith Bobby Knight and Jim Phelan of Mount St. Marys College) and the winningest African-American coach. In this book Gaines concentrates on what was happening socially in the country during his tenure as well as offering behind-the-scenes details about his many victories.