Dale Bandy is an American basketball

Basketball

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 coach. He was head coach of the Ohio Bobcats

Ohio Bobcats

Ohio University features 16 varsity sports teams called the Bobcats. The Bobcats compete in the Mid-American Conference in all sports. The Bobcats were a charter member of the Mid-American Conference in 1946 and are the only team still in the conference from the original 5 team league that...

 men's basketball

Basketball

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 team from the 1974-75 season to the 1979-80 season (six years). He was an assistant under Jim Snyder

Jim Snyder

Jim Snyder was head coach of the Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team for 26 years . He led his teams to 7 NCAA Tournament appearances and one National Invitation Tournament appearance...

, who led his teams to 7 NCAA

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 Tournament

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 appearances (1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1970, 1972, and 1974) and one National Invitation Tournament

National Invitation Tournament

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 appearance (1969). Coach Bandy's teams compiled a 69-89 record, good for a .436 winning percentage. His Mid-American Conference

Mid-American Conference

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 record was 36-58 (.382).

He was a graduate of Clay High School

Clay High School (Portsmouth, Ohio)

Clay Junior-Senior High School is located four miles north of the Portsmouth, Ohio, city limits on U.S. Route 23 in Clay Township in Scioto County--which is south of Columbus, Ohio; west of Huntington, West Virginia; and east of Cincinnati, Ohio. Clay is a rural, Ohio, public high school...

 (Portsmouth, Ohio

Portsmouth, Ohio

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) where his father was a long-time administrator. While at Ohio University

Ohio University

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he played baseball and basketball.