ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ will to legendary former basketball coach Lute Olson on Sept. 12 in McKale Center.
Olson died Aug. 27, 2020 at age 85. A tribute was postponed indefinitely because of the pandemic. The Sept. 12 ceremony is scheduled to be open to the public "pending local health and safety regulations in effect at that time," the UA said Tuesday in a news release. It will also be streamed live via .
The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m., with doors opening at 10:30 a.m.
Olson led the Wildcats to four Final Fours and the 1997 NCAA Championship in 24 seasons as the Wildcats' head coach. He went 589-187 at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and 781-279 in his career, which included stops at Long Beach State and Iowa.
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UA basketball head coach Lute Olson and player Sean Elliott during their game against USC in 1989.
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Lute Olson playing guard in football in 1955.
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Lute Olson as a junior in high school in 1951.
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Lute Olson (right) with friend Wes Bodin as they appeared in the Augsburg College school paper on Friday, November 21, 1952, Lute's freshman year at the Minneapolis school where he majored in History.
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Rookie coach: Lute Olson knew his X's and O's in his first job at Mahnomen High in 1956-57, and, as a yearbook photo suggests, won over players and bosses with his personality.
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Lute Olson, head coach Marina HS, Huntington Beach, Calif. 1967-68.
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Lute Olson as head coach of his 1970-71 Long Beach Community College basketball team.
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Iowa head coach Lute Olson, center, and his assistant coaches leap off the bench in disbelief after the referees failed to call traveling against Villanova during Friday night's NCAA Midwest Regional semifinal game in Kansas City, Mo., on March 25, 1983.
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Lute Olson talks with wife Bobbi before a press conference in which he will formally become the new head coach of men's basketball at the U of A in 1983.
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When Olson joined the UA in 1983, he brought with him a commanding presence. "When he walks over to his office with you," one player said, "you feel like you're with the president."
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Lute Olson talks to his players during practice at McKale Center in 1983.
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Fans of coach Lute Olson in McKale Center in 1984.
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Lute Olson (center) coaching his 1984 squad.
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University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson during a press conference in 1985.
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At the opening gala for Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, on April 27, 1985, Mrs. Bobbi Olson talks with Willard Scott as her husband and University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach, Lute Olson, looks on.
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University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson gathers his players together during a time out against Alabama on March 15, 1985.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson coaching at his youth basketball camp in 1985.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson at a charity bike event in 1987 with assistant Kevin O'Neill, far left, and player Harvey Mason, far right.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ State head coach Bill Frieder, left, and University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson appeared in several funny commercials for Valley National Bank in the mid-1980s.
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Recovering from knee surgery, Steve Kerr gets a visit from University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson and teammate Sean Elliott at the St. Mary's pediatric ward on July 22, 1986 in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. Margo Brennan, who would become his future wife, sits by Kerr's side. Olson awarded Kerr, who was on the USA Basketball team, with the Gold medal from the FIBA World Championship game in Spain where he was injured. Because of the injury Kerr missed the entire 1986-87 season. Photo by Charlie Leight / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson donned a cowboy hat for the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Rodeo in 1988.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson during open practice prior to the NCAA Final Four semi-final against Oklahoma on April 2, 1988, in Kansas City, Mo.
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ vs. Oklahoma / 1988 NCAA Final Four

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson eschews autograph seekers prior to the NCAA Final Four semi-final against Oklahoma on April 2, 1988, in Kansas City, Mo. Olson was 0-3 in the NCAA Tournament in his first four seasons with the Wildcats before the magical 1987-88 run, when UA advanced to its first Final Four.
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Coach Lute Olson is beaming while listening to star player Sean Elliott at a rally and parade for the 1988 UA men's basketball team, which made the Final Four.
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Coach Lute Olson with player Steve Kerr, now the coach of the Golden State Warriors, at a rally and parade for the men's basketball team at University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ stadium in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ after the 1988 NCAA Final Four.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Coach Lute Olson in his office in Sept. 1988, with the Pac-10 Trophy (foreground). The team made it into the 1988 NCAA Final Four earlier in the year.
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A tense Lute Olson watches from the bench during a game in 1989.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson reacts to an official's call at McKale in January, 1989.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson, left, during a tense moment versus Washington State during the Pac-10 Tournament at the Forum in Los Angeles in 1989.
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Coach Dale Brown of Louisiana State University, chatting with University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson during a basketball game at McKale Center, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, on Dec. 7, 1991.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ State coach Bill Frieder chats with friend Lute Olson, head coach of the University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, in 1991.
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Former University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball player Kenny Lofton, left, greets coach Lute Olson at a Cleveland Indians baseball spring training game at Hi Corbett Field on March 31, 1992.Â
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson and star point guard Damon Stoudamire embrace during the 1994 NCAA Final Four in Charlotte, N.C.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson smiles in front of cheering fans at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Stadium on April 5, 1994, after returning from the Final Four in Charlotte, NC.
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Matt Brase, then in the seventh grade, celebrates Christmas 1994 with Lute Olson, his grandfather.
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Michael Dickerson and Lute share a moment near the end of the game against North Carolina in the Final Four in 1997.
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Lute Olson and the Wildcats celebrate during the end of the second half of their NCAA Final Four Championship game against Kentucky in Indianapolis in 1997.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson holds up the net for the fans after ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ beat Kentucky 84-79 in overtime to win the national championship Monday, March 31, 1997, at the NCAA Final Four tournament in Indianapolis.
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UA head coach Lute Olson hold the Divsion I NCAA Championship trophy with his team from left; Jason Lee, Miles Simon, Jason Terry, Lute, Justin Wessel, and Bennett Davison after they defeated Kentucky in the 1997 Final Four in Indianapolis.
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Lute Olson and wife, Bobbi Olson wave to fans after the Wildcats won the NCAA National Championship in Indianapolis in 1997.
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"You could make a fortune!" Jay Leno told Lute Olson during "The Tonight Show", handing him a can of 'Lute Spray." Just say "One spray, and you too can be a wildcat." Olson appeared on the show on April 2, 1997, after the team won the NCAA National Championship.
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Sakura chef Steve Yim and Wildcat guard Jason Terry watch as UA coach Lute Olson adds egg to fried rice during the Lute Olson Celebrity Chefs benefit in Nov. 1997.
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In this 1998 photo, Cheryl Bell, Steve Tobias, Patrick Coco, Tom Alexander and Brian Ralston are all sporting the new" Lute lids" a rubbery white hair piece that is suppose to make you look like Lute Olson.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson, left, his wife Bobbi, former athletic director Cedric Dempsey, AD Jim Livengood and university president Peter Likens during a ceremony at a game at McKale Center on Feb. 26, 2000.
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UA's head basketball coach Lute Olson and his wife Bobbi share a moment before unveiling the new floor to McKale Center in a post game ceremony in 2000.
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UA basketball head coach Lute Olson (right) has five talented freshmen for the 2001 season, including Channing Frye, Isaiah Fox, Dennis Latimore, Salim Stoudamire and Will Bynum. Photo by David Sanders.
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University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson waves to the crowd as he is introduced during the midnight madness practice game at the McKale Center on Oct. 12. 2001.
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UA head coach Lute Olson with legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden get ready to present the Wildcats with the Wooden Classic trophy after UA defeated Purdue in 2001.
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Lute Olson checks on Loren Woods after Woods hurt his ankle during practice in the Alamodome in San Antonio,Texas, during the NCAA Tournament in 2001.
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Former University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ stars Steve Kerr (left) and Sean Elliott greet UA coach Lute Olson in March, 2001.
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Lute Olson reacts during the first half of UA vs. Duke NCAA Championship in Minneapolis, MN, April 2, 2001.Â
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University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head basketball coach Lute Olson, who gave the commencement speech to UA's 124th graduating class May 12, 2001, laughs as he recalls how preparing for this speech was harder than preparing for Illinois, Michigan State, and Duke, all teams that UA had to play against in the this year's Final Four.
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Members of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Class of 2002, pose with their Hall of Fame jerseys, from left, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, coaches Lute Olson and Kay Yow, Biserka Petrovic (the mother of the late Drazen Petrovic), coach Larry Brown and Tex Harrison (representing the Harlem Globetrotters) on Wednesday, June 5, 2002, in Los Angeles.
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Friends and fans in the foreground wait for a memorial service for Lute Olson's wife, Bobbi, at McKale Center in 2001. Bobbi died after a long battle with cancer.
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University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson reacts to a foul called by referee on Channing Frye during the NCAA Tournament on March 22, 2002
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University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson signs autographs at Myers Ganoung Elementary school on May 7, 2002.
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Lute Olson talks with Channing Frye during a game against sixth-ranked Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse in 2003.
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UA coach Lute Olson and his assistants rally the Wildcats in their game against Gonzaga during the 2003 NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake City.
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Photo Illustration of Lute Olson and various stages in his life. Left to right: A junior in high school, playing football and basketball in college, his first coaching job, coaching at California, Iowa, and UA with Sean Elliott, winning the NCAA national title.
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An agitated Lute Olson stomps partially out onto the court during the run of play after his University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ players failed to score on a possession in the second half against Mississippi State at the Arrowhead Pond in 2004.
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Lute Olson answers a question during a Hollywood Squares type sketch performed by members of the 1988 basketball team during the All-Star dinner Saturday, Aug. 13 2005, at the Westin La Paloma.
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UA's Lute Olson doesn't agree with a call in the first half against Memphis during the Chase Fiesta Bowl Classic at McKale on Dec. 20, 2006. UA won 79-71.
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U of A head coach Lute Olson calls a play from the sidelines in the second half against Oregon at McKale Center in 2007.
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UA head coach Lute Olson talks with former player Jason Gardner at a party at Lutes house in 2005.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson reacts to a foul against the Wildcats during the second half at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2006.
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UA head basketball coach Lute Olson reacts after crossing the finish line with his wife Christine Olson during the Holualoa ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Marathon in Dec. 2006.
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Coach Lute Olson grimaces upon hearing that his University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ team landed a No. 8 seed at the 2007 NCAA Tournament. He was watching the show at the Stadium Club at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Stadium with his wife, Christine.
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In 2007, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson took the Wildcats to their 23rd consecutive NCAA tournament, the second-longest streak ever. At ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ International Airport, Olson headed for a chartered flight Wednesday that took the team to New Orleans for a first-round game against Purdue.
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A tired Lute Olson talks in April, 2008, about his return to coaching after a leave of absence.
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Former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ men's basketball coach Lute Olson speaks to the media in 2009 during an open topic press conference after stepping down as coach.
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Former UA basketball coach Lute Olson and daughters Christi Snyder, left, and Vicki Olson, right, laugh as he is honored at Lute and Bobbi Olson Court in McKale Center in 2009.
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Former University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Head basketball coach Lute Olson stands with daughters, Vicki Olson, left, and Christi Snyder, right, while they watch a half time celebration to honor Olson at McKale Center in March, 2009.
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Sean Miller greets Coach Olson in McKale center for the press conference to announce Miller as the new head coach in 2009.
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Former head coach Lute Olson, Damon Stoudamire and Olson's wife, Kelly Olson joke around following a press conference in 2013 to announce Stoudamire's appointment as an assistant to Sean Miller.
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Former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson greets old friends and checks out the action during an open practice for the second round of the NCAA 2011 Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship at McKale Center in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz., on March 16, 2011.
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Lute Olson watches a University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball game in 2013.
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Jason Terry stands with former head coach Lute Olson as his jersey number is retired during halftime at McKale Center in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ on Feb. 19, 2015.Â
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Former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson and his wife Kelly Pugnea are two red shirts in a sea of yellow in the second half of the Wildcats' game against Cal at Haas Pavilion, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, Berkeley, Calif.Â
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The crowd gathers round to get photos and close look at the new statue of former University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ head coach Lute Olson shortly after its unveiling at the Eddie Lynch Pavilion at McKale Center, Thursday, April 12, 2018, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz.
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Former University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson stands with his wife Kelly shortly after the unveiling of the statue of Olson at the Eddie Lynch Pavilion at McKale Center, Thursday, April 12, 2018, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz.
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Former University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson waves to the crowd while making his entrance a statue in his honor at the Eddie Lynch Pavilion at McKale Center, Thursday, April 12, 2018, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz.
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ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ men's coach Sean Miller, left, chats with former coach Lute Olson at halftime of the women's game against Northern ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ at McKale Center, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz.
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Former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach head Lute Olson watches the first half of the Wildcats game against Washington at McKale Arena, Thursday, February 7, 2019, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz.
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s quotable coach: Here are the 10 best Lute Olson lines of all time
The 10 most memorable Olson quotes
Editor's note: This story initially ran in August 2017.

University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball coach Lute Olson during a press conference in 1985.
After lunch on a Tuesday afternoon, March 29, 1983, Lute Olson arrived at McKale Center driving a Buick Park Avenue, dark blue. The sticker price from Royal Buick was still in the window: $16,700.
Four days earlier in Kansas City, Olson coached Iowa in the Sweet 16, a 55-54 loss to Villanova.
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ had a coaching vacancy. It had gone 4-24 in the 1982-23 season. Athletic director Cedric Dempsey, on the job for seven months, aimed high. Three years earlier, Olson had coached Iowa to the Final Four.
The Lohse Room on the third floor of McKale Center was at capacity as Olson and his wife, Bobbi, fashionably late, walked in for his welcome-to-ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ press conference.
What was he possibly thinking, leaving a Sweet 16 program for one that had gone 1-17 in the Pac-10?
"As I left the press conference Friday in Kansas City, our athletic director, Bump Elliott, met me as he does after every game. He told me someone from the University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ was here to talk to me about their opening," Olson said.
"We’d just lost. Since I didn’t have anything else to do, I agreed. But when we talked Friday night, I didn’t really think I would come out here."
Dempsey and UA donors worked fast; Olson was in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ by Sunday. He accepted the job late that night. He flew back to Iowa City, then returned to ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ a day later for his press conference.
He was given a one-year contract worth $64,000; incentives would push it to about $150,000 per year.
"When the time comes to get out of coaching in five or seven or 10 years, you decide where you want to live, and we wanted to be in the West," he said. "I’m not all worried about a one-year contract. That’s why I have this twitch in my right eye."
Everybody laughed. This would be a long and memorable ride.
Olson was 48 that day. He would coach at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ for the next 24 years, becoming the most identifiable person in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ history. He was not a "no comment" type, nor afraid to take on hot shots like the Pac-10 commissioner or opposing coaches.
Here’s my ranking of the 10 most memorable Olson quotes of those 24 seasons:
1. March 20, 1997

Lute Olson, left, smiles along with Channing Frye as they laugh at Salim Stoudamire before the Elite Eight in 2003. Photo by David Sanders / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
A day before the Wildcats were to play No. 1 Kansas in the Sweet 16, Olson was asked about being in an unusual underdog’s role.
"Who’s David and who’s Goliath?" he asked. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ shocked the Jayhawks 85-82 en route to the NCAA championship.
2. April 2, 1985

Steve Kerr, second from left, Sean Elliott, middle, and Lute Olson, second from right, do a postgame interview with CBS. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ file photo
Olson returned from the Final Four where Kentucky had negotiated with him to be UK’s new coach. ESPN’s Dick Vitale announced during that Olson had accepted Kentucky’s offer. He explained why he declined to be UK’s coach.
"I have yet to go out to dinner in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and have a full fork of food and be dragged off to meet someone’s wife or children," he said. "I can’t express how much we appreciate that."
3. Oct. 23, 2008

Lute Olson answers questions from the media about his return to coaching Tuesday April 1, 2008. Photo by Benjie Sanders / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
After the first week of 2008-09 practice, Olson announced he was retiring, holding a press conference in the same room at which he was introduced in 1983.
"It is time to pass the program on to a younger staff, to transition the university to the next generation of basketball," he said.
4. Jan. 16, 2001

UA basketball coach Lute Olson with the new incoming freshmen, from lower left to right, Salim Stoudamire, Channing Frye, Isaiah Fox, Dennis Latimore and Will Bynum in 2001. Photo by David Sanders / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
After missing five games to mourn the death of Bobbi (she died of ovarian cancer on New Year’s Day), Olson returned to practice.
"It’s important at this point in time not to have a lot of time on my hands," he said. "I met with each of our five kids Sunday. Vicki, our oldest, made the statement very emphatic. She said ‘mom would want you to do it; there’s no question she’d want you back with the team.’"
5. March 3, 1986

Undated photo of Lute Olson standing at a podium in front of a Valley Bank sign. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ file photo
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ won its first Pac-10 championship, beating UCLA at Pauley Pavilion. Olson, whose memory always served him well, remembered how lowly his team was regarded five months earlier.
"I don’t feel any pressure to win," he said. "What kind of pressure can there be on a team picked to finish in eighth place like we were?"
6. March 21, 1998

Lute Olson throws his hands in his pockets during a game. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ file photo
The top-seeded and defending national champions were stunned 76-51 by Utah at the Elite Eight, ending a chance at back-to-back titles.
"Those kids in the locker room have a trophy and they have a ring. They will forever be the standard by which future ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ teams are measured."
7. March 24, 1989

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson reacts to an official's call at McKale Center in January, 1989. Rick Wiley / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, seeded No. 1 nationally, lost 68-67 to UNLV on a 3-pointer by Anderson Hunt with two seconds remaining, ending the Sean Elliott era.
"The second it went off his hand, to me, it looked like it was dead-center," he said. "It was going in. There was no doubt about it."
Olson was then asked if it was a bitter loss.
"Let’s have a show of hands. Wouldn’t you think it would be bitter?," he said. "It ends our season. It’s bitter."
8. March 27, 1988

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson donned a cowboy hat for the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Rodeo in 1988. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ routed North Carolina 70-52 to qualify for its first Final Four during a decade in which Pac-10 basketball was routinely scoffed at by national analysts.
"How many teams East of the Mississippi are in the Final Four?" he asked reporters. "Hold up your hands. I don’t know if we have to hear any more of that."
9. Jan. 11, 1992

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ coach Lute Olson, right, calls out plays with assistant coaches during a game against UCLA at McKale Center on Jan. 11, 1992. UCLA won, breaking a 71-game UA win streak at McKale. Rick Wiley / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥â€™s 71-game McKale Center winning streak ended on a last-second shot by UCLA’s Darrick Martin. A game-changing technical foul was called on Olson with 5:54 remaining, generating a five-point swing in an 89-87 loss.
"I said nothing. If you ask me, I think it was in retaliation for the technical (official Tom Harrington) gave Coach (Jim) Harrick in the first half. I think this is the type of game that the kids on the floor should decide the outcome, not a referee."
10. March 26, 1994

Wildcats fans hold a Lute Olson sign during the team's Feb. 27, 1984 win over USC. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ file photo
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ whips Missouri 92-72 to qualify for its second Final Four. It followed back-to-back seasons in which ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ was stunned in first round losses to East Tennessee State and Santa Clara.
"I take offense to the cheap shots and the fair-weather fans," he said. "I have a very good memory. I remember the people who were with us. I remember the people who were not. I am bitter. I’ve been dealing with this for two years."