BATON ROUGE — Former LSU Associate Basketball Coach Jack Schalow, who coached for Coach Dale Brown during the 1970s, passed away Wednesday at his home in Oregon after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 67.
Schalow spent two years at LSU and also was head coach at Morehead State and Seattle University. In 1982, he moved to the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, serving several coaching roles and was on staffs that twice reached the NBA finals.
Schalow was a natural choice to be Brown’s top assistant in his early seasons, having also been born and raised in North Dakota.
“He was a remarkable man,” Brown, who was the head coach at LSU for men’s basketball for 25 years (1973-97), told The Advocate about Jack Schalow. “He took the time to cheer up others when he knew he was dying himself. There’s a big hole in my life today.”
Schalow played at the University of Pacific where he was a two-time team captain. Before coming to LSU, he had distinguished himself as a top freshman coach at Pacific, Seattle and Duke along with success as a champion AAU coach on the West Coach.