Coach Purnell And Team USA Begin Road To Gold On Saturday

July 29, 2004

The road to Olympic gold begins Saturday for Team USA Basketball. Clemson head coach Oliver Purnell will serve as an assistant coach under Larry Brown on this year’s USA Basketball team, the sixth time in his career he has been selected as a coach of a USA Basketball team. He is one of five USA Basketball coaches in the history of that competition to win five Gold Medals. To see Coach Purnell and the rest of Team USA in action, check out this pre-Athens schedule.