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A boy and a dream: How Billy Donovan's childhood goal turned him into a legendary ballplayer

NewsOK.com | August 9, 2015

Related Topics: Colleges of Durham University, Billy Donovan, Big East Conference (1979–2013), Brian Mahoney (basketball), P. J. Carlesimo

Billy Donovan dreamed of playing big-time college basketball.

But this was no ordinary dream. This was more like a life mission. And Donovan’s goal, even as a teenager, was explicit. He wanted to play in the Big East. Back then, everything about the newly-formed conference fascinated him.

Thunder coach Billy Donovan, playing in 1987 for Providence, gets ready to fire the ball past St. John's Terry Bross (during Big East Tournament action at Madison Square Garden in New York [AP photo]
Thunder coach Billy Donovan, playing in 1987 for Providence, gets ready to fire the ball past St. John's Terry Bross (during Big East Tournament action at Madison Square Garden in New York [AP photo]

The coaches.

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