Jay Bilas
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United States
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lawyer
Lawyer
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and basketball
Basketball
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analyst for ESPN
ESPN
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and CBS Sports
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. He is also a former college basketball player.
Playing career
Bilas was a consensus Top 50 recruit at Rolling Hills High School in Rolling Hills, California, where he averaged 23.5 points and 13.5 rebounds per game in 1982. That season, Bilas was named First Team All-CIF, First Team All-South Bay, MVP of the Bay League, Best in the West by the Long Beach Press Telegram.Bilas was a four-year starter for Mike Krzyzewski on the Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
men’s basketball team from 1983–1986, and helped lead Duke to the Final Four and National Championship game in 1986. In 1986 Duke won 37 games, the highest total for a single season in the NCAA. Krzyzewski’s 1982 recruiting class of Bilas, Johnny Dawkins, Mark Alarie and David Henderson still ranks as the highest scoring single class in college basketball history. In his college career, Bilas scored 1,062 points and grabbed 692 rebounds while shooting over 55% from the field.
Bilas graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science, and was selected in the fifth round of the 1986 NBA Draft
1986 NBA Draft
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by the Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks
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. He played professionally overseas for teams in Italy
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and Spain
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where he averaged over 20 points and 10 rebounds per game for his career. In 1985, Bilas represented USA Basketball on the U.S. National Select Team in the Jones Cup in Taipei, Taiwan.
Coaching career
Bilas served as an assistant coach under Mike Krzyzewski at Duke for three seasons from 1990–1992. While serving as an assistant coach, Bilas attended Duke University School of LawDuke University School of Law
The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...
, receiving his law degree in 1992. During his three-year tenure as an assistant coach, Duke advanced to three Final Fours and won two National Championships. Bilas still teaches and speaks at clinics, and has been an instructor at the Nike Skills Academy in Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton, Oregon
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, the Nike/Amar'e Stoudemire Skills Academy in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Nike/LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio, which annually tutor some of the nation’s finest high school and college players. In 2005 and 2006, Bilas was one of 12 coaches taking part in Operation Hardwood I and II that coached United States Service teams in tournament competition in the Middle East. Among the other coaches of Operation Hardwood I and II were Mark Gottfried
Mark Gottfried
Mark Frederick Gottfried is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. He was named head coach of NC State on April 5, 2011....
, Tom Izzo
Tom Izzo
Tom Izzo is an American college basketball coach. Since 1995, he has been the head coach for the Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, presiding over a prolonged period of success....
, Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson
Kelvin Sampson is an assistant coach of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He previously was a men's college basketball coach at Montana Tech , Washington State University , the University of Oklahoma and Indiana University .-Early life and coaching:Sampson was born in the...
, Tubby Smith
Tubby Smith
Orlando "Tubby" Smith is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the men's basketball head coach at the University of Minnesota...
, Rick Barnes
Rick Barnes
Richard Dale Barnes is the current head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns men's basketball team. He has coached Texas for the last twelve seasons, taking the team to the NCAA Tournament each year, including a Final Four appearance led by T. J. Ford in 2003...
, Gary Williams
Gary Williams
Gary B. Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Boston College, and American University. In 2002, he led Maryland to the NCAA Tournament Championship...
, Dave Odom
Dave Odom
Dave Odom is a retired American men's college basketball coach, who most recently coached at the University of South Carolina...
, Bobby Lutz
Bobby Lutz
Bobby Lutz is an American men's college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at North Carolina State University under head coach Mark Gottfried. Lutz was head coach of the Charlotte 49ers basketball team from 1998 to 2010....
, Bobby Cremins
Bobby Cremins
Bobby Cremins is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the College of Charleston's men's basketball team, and former head coach at Appalachian State and Georgia Tech.-Early years:...
, Mike Jarvis
Mike Jarvis
Mike Jarvis is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Florida Atlantic University. He has coached at Boston University, George Washington University and St. John's University. He also has worked as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN...
, Billy Lange
Billy Lange
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, Jim Crews
Jim Crews
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, and Reggie Minton
Reggie Minton
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.
Broadcasting career
Bilas has been a color commentator and studio analyst for ESPN since 1995. Bilas began his broadcast career as a color commentator alongside play-by-play man Bob HarrisBob Harris (sportscaster)
Bob Harris, the "Voice of the Blue Devils" is a Hall of Fame-inducted play-by-play announcer for Duke University men's basketball and football teams....
for Duke's student-run TV Cable 13, the Duke Radio Network and Raycom
Raycom Media
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/Jefferson Pilot in 1993. Bilas joined ESPN in 1995 as a college basketball analyst on games and in the studio. He has served as co-host of ESPN’s studio broadcasts since 2000, including College GameNight and College GameDay
College GameDay (basketball)
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with Rece Davis
Rece Davis
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, Hubert Davis, Digger Phelps
Digger Phelps
Richard "Digger" Phelps is a former American college basketball coach, most notably of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team from 1971 to 1991. Since 1993, he has served as an analyst on ESPN.-Career:...
, and Bob Knight. Bilas makes frequent appearances on SportsCenter
SportsCenter
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, ESPNEWS
ESPNEWS
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and ESPN Radio
ESPN Radio
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, and is a featured basketball writer on ESPN.com. He is also featured as "The Bilastrator" during halftime segments of some ESPN college basketball games. From 2003 through 2010, Bilas joined CBS as a game analyst for the network’s coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, and was paired with Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg
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as his color analyst from 2005 through 2010. Sports Illustrated has called Bilas the best analyst in college basketball. In both 2007 and 2008, Bilas was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Performance by a Studio Analyst. Jay has gained notoriety in the studio for his ability to draw up unique inbound plays after time outs during close games.
Acting career
A member of the Screen Actors’ Guild since 1987, Bilas has appeared in national television commercials and the feature-length movie I Come in PeaceI Come in Peace
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(also known as Dark Angel) starring Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren
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and Brian Benben. In 1990, Bilas also appeared in an episode of the TV series The White Shadow.
Legal career
Bilas received his J.D.Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
from Duke University School of Law
Duke University School of Law
The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...
in 1992. He is currently Of Counsel
Of counsel
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to the Charlotte office of Moore & Van Allen, where he maintains a litigation practice.
Bilas most notably worked on the case Lyons Partnership v. Morris Costumes, Inc., where he successfully defended the costume business against trademark and copyright claims brought by owners of the popular children's television character, Barney the Dinosaur
Barney & Friends
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.
Comments on Duke lacrosse scandal
Writing in Duke Magazine, Bilas sharply criticized the Duke administration for its lack of support for the falsely indicted players during the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. Describing Richard H. BrodheadRichard H. Brodhead
Richard Halleck Brodhead Marquis Who's Who on the Web currently serves as the ninth president of Duke University and is a scholar of 19th-century American literature.-Early life and education:...
's actions, "President Brodhead chose the path of political expediency. He failed to effectively counter factually inaccurate and inappropriate statements about Duke and its students, failed to forcefully speak out against procedural irregularities, and failed to take appropriate action in response to repeated attacks upon the due process rights of Duke's students." He then goes on to call for Brodhead's resignation, as well as for Board of Trustee's Chairman, Robert K. Steel
Robert K. Steel
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's, " and any board members that acted in lock step with Brodhead."