CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – Former UNI men's basketball player and graduate assistant Nick Nurse is one win away from an NBA title.
The Panther grad still holds the record for the highest three-point field goal percentage in school history, and he was a graduate assistant on the first team to make the NCAA Division I tournament in 1990.
Nurse's journey from small-town Carroll, Iowa, to the court at the UNI-Dome to a clinching game in the NBA finals is one of the more unique in the NBA and over the last few weeks news outlets around the NBA have taken the opportunity to share the details of what formed Nurse into an NBA finals coach.