Stu Aberdeen

Stuart Worth Aberdeen was an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at Acadia in Nova Scotia and the head coach at Marshall [Thundering Herd men's basketball|Marshall]. At Acadia, Aberdeen had a 122–50 record. He was posthumously inducted into the Acadia Hall of Fame in 1989.
Aberdeen left Acadia to become an assistant to Ray [Mears (basketball)|Ray Mears] at Tennessee, where he was the lead recruiter for some of UT’s top players, including future Naismith [Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame] forward Bernard King. He left the Volunteers after eleven years, taking the head coaching position at Marshall. Aberdeen had a record of 25–31 in two seasons at Marshall. During the 1979 offseason, while vacationing in Florida, Aberdeen died from a heart attack while jogging.