Fansided · Sep 25, 2018
Georgia basketball loses all time great Bob Lienhard
Georgia basketball lost its first marquee player and perhaps still the best basketball player to run the Stegman floor when Big Bob Lienhard died yesterday at the age of 70.
The Georgia basketball family lost one of the greatest all time Bulldog cagers. Bob Lienhard died yesterday in Italy at the age of 70.
Along with Dominique Wilkins, Big Bob Lienhard is one of only two two-time Georgia basketball All-Americans . Like Wilkins a generation later, Lienhard’s decision to accept a basketball scholarship to play at the University of Georgia in 1966 was a recruiting coup.
High school All-American