Coaching Career
After his one-year stint with the Bengals, Dye entered the coaching ranks. He coached first at Grandview Heights High School just outside of Columbus from 1939-41. On April 3, 1941, Dye was named the coach at Brown where he also was an assistant coach for the football team under Paul Brown. The next year, Dye returned to Ohio State to be an assistant for the football and basketball teams. The Buckeye's basketball team was coached by Harold Olsen at the time, one of the men who spearheaded the creation of an NCAA basketball tournament in 1939.
During World War II, Dye served for three years in the U.S. Navy. He then went on to become the basketball coach at his alma mater, Ohio State, from 1947 to 1950. In 1950, the Buckeyes won the Big Ten title and finished in the Elite Eight of the NCAA basketball tournament. Dye then moved on to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was the head coach from 1950 to 1959. Washington won three consecutive Pacific Coast titles (1951–53), and advanced to the 1953 NCAA Final Four. Dye's 156-91 record (.632) with the Huskies ranks him as the fourth winningest coach in UW basketball history, behind Hall of Fame coaches Hec Edmundson (488 wins) and Marv Harshman (246 wins), as well as current coach Lorenzo Romar (219 wins (April 2012)).
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