# Botticelli, Nov. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 31, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093 "2022-10-31T20:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/361 "2022-12-01T23:26:15Z")
**W** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name begins with W 5. Died after 1900 6. American 7. Not known for the Arts 8. Died after 1960 9. Died after 1990 10. Not known from politics 11. Known for sports 12. Caucasian 13. Known for a team sport 14. Won a championship 15. It’s subjective, but I’ll say greatest athletic glory after 1970. YMMV 16. Not known for baseball 17. Not known for football 18. Known for basketball 19. Played on a pro team, but not best known for that 20. Best known for college ball 21. Not best known for playing the game 22. Best known for coaching 23. Last name does not start with Wa-Wi 24. In the Hall of Fame (2x) 25. Not best known from a college east of the Mississippi 26. Coached for UCLA ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/362 "2022-12-02T02:36:38Z")
DQ18 pretty much guaranteed that this is not somebody I’ve ever heard of. Wake me up when the next game starts… Someone can use my “Firstname Lastname” DQ, if needed. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/363 "2022-12-02T03:33:54Z")
Last Q: Are you John Wooden? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/364 "2022-12-02T04:19:56Z")
**Yes!!!** I am **John Wooden!!** Winner of 10 NCAA championships in the 60s and 70s, including 7 in a row, 4 perfect 30-0 seasons and still the holder of the men’s college basketball record for longest win streak at 88 games. (UConn Women’s BB team has broken the record twice) and namesake of the on-campus gym workout facility. > **[John Wooden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden)** > > As head coach: > John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed the Wizard of Westwood, he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive g... Congratulations, Prof. and don’t forget to start a new thread for December. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/365 "2022-12-02T14:33:29Z")
Heard of him, but wouldn’t have guessed him in a million years. Good job, **Prof.**! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/366 "2022-12-02T15:24:06Z")
The effect of growing up in a small town in basketball-crazed Indiana. Here’s the December link: [Botticelli - December 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2022/975924) ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/367 "2022-12-02T18:06:30Z")
For me it was the effect of attending UCLA in the 80s. Even though he retired in 1975, the contact high was just starting to wear off, even though the best our teams could do was an NIT championship and a first round Big Dance elimination. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093.md?page=18)