MATT DOHERTY

WLIE 540 AM SPORTSTALKNY

Matt Doherty started his basketball career on Long Island as he was a standout in high school at Holy Trinity in Hicksville, New York. He was on the 1980 Holy Trinity team that won the Class A New York state high school boys basketball championship. He went on to play for legendary college coach Dean Smith, at UNC where he started alongside future National Basketball Association stars James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith, Brad Daugherty and Michael Jordan, He went on to have a successful career in coaching. First as an assistant coach at Davidson and then at Kansas. In 1999, he was named head coach at the University of Notre Dame in June 2000, he returned “home” as the head coach of the UNC Tar Heels.In 2001, UNC won the ACC Regular Season Championship and he was voted 2001 AP National Coach of the Year. Two short years later, he was forced to resign from his dream job. He takes us through all of it it in his new book REBOUND From Pain to Passion, Leadership Lessons Learned, Tune in each week on streaming on the 365sportscast.com network or on www.sportstalknylive.com as well as facebook live at 6pm Sundays for the live broadcast, also on the 365sportscast iPhone, Android and Alexa apps.