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Doug Gottlieb is a former NCAA collegiate basketball player for Oklahoma State and current ESPN analyst and host of the ESPN Radio show The Pulse.

Contents 1 College basketball career 2 Professional basketball career 3 ESPN career 4 References

Originally hailing from Orange County, California, Gottlieb was the Orange County Player of the Year in 1995. Gottlieb was recruited by Notre Dame, and was the starting point guard for Notre Dame during the 1995-1996 college basketball season. He started all but four games for Notre Dame during that season. However during Gottlieb's freshman year at Notre Dame, he stole credit cards from a roommate and fraudulently charged over $900 to those cards. Subsequently, he was kicked off the Notre Dame basketball team and eventually convicted of fraud.^[1]

He then transferred to Oklahoma State University, and, according to NCAA rules on college transfer, he was required to sit out the 1996-1997 season. Gottlieb was a member of Oklahoma State's basketball team from 1997-2000, leading the nation in assists as a junior after averaging 8.8 assists per game - .2 assists better than his senior season, when he ranked second in the nation with 8.6 assists per game. He currently ranks eighth all-time in NCAA career assists with 947. Gottlieb was a career 36.8 percent FG shooter and 45.7 percent FT shooter. "I've never seen people not guard somebody the way they do me," he says. ^[2]

Gottlieb graduated from OSU in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in marketing holding every assist record at OSU and in the Big 12 conference.

After graduating from college, Gottlieb was picked by the Enid, Oklahoma USBL team the Oklahoma Storm, who made him the first overall draft pick of the 2000 USBL Draft. After a short stint with the Storm, Gottlieb pursued a short-lived basketball career overseas, which included a stop in Israel after signing with Maccabi Ra'anana. In 2001 Doug Gottlieb won a Gold Medal as the MVP for the United States team at the Maccabiah Games in Israel.^[3]Gottlieb played professionally internationally, in France, Russia and Israel, as well as domestically in the USBL, CBA, ABA and the Los Angeles Lakers summer team in 2001. Gottlieb won an NEBL championship as well as a Russian Basketball Federation Championship.

Gottlieb married Angie Collier in August 2001.

Gottlieb and Syracuse University basketball coach, Jim Boeheim have traded barbs ever since 2005 because of Gottlieb's criticism of Syracuse's soft preseason schedule and Boeheim's comments regarding Gottlieb's difficulties at Notre Dame. Gottleib and Boeheim refuse to discuss their row publicly.^[4]

In 2002, Gottlieb co-hosted a midday sports-talk show on an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma radio station WWLS 640-AM known locally as The Sports Animal. Gottlieb was hired by at ESPN Radio in September 2003 as co-host of ESPN Radio's GameNight. Currently, he hosts The Pulse with Doug Gottlieb on ESPN Radio Tuesday-Friday from 7PM-10PM ET. He also serves as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN2, additionally appearing ESPNEWS and writing for espn.com. Gottlieb is also a frequent guest on ESPN television shows including SportsCenter and also on College Basketball Gameday Final. ^[5]

1. ^ 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament Spotlight: Doug Gottleib. Sports Illustrated (1999). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
2. ^ NBA Draft 2000: Doug Gottlieb. CNN Sports Illustrated (2000). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
3. ^ 2001 US Maccabiah Basketball Team (August, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
4. ^ Wolfley, Bob. "SPORTSWAVES Gottlieb's strong words have some calling foul", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2005-03-11. Retrieved on 2007-03-10. (in english)
5. ^ Who is Doug Gottlieb?. ESPN (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-10.