Mike Jarvis is a sports commentator and former NCAA basketball coach at Boston University, George Washington University, and St. John's University. He also works as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN. His career college coaching record in over 18 seasons is 364-201 [1] and is one of 4 Division I coaches to have won 100 games at three different colleges. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... (For the unrelated similarly-named Jesuit-associated university in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... The George Washington University (GWU) is a private university in Washington, D.C., founded in 1821 as The Columbian College. ... St. ... ESPN (once an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ...

Jarvis was born in Massachusetts and played high school basketball at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. He also coached at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, where his played included Patrick Ewing, Rumeal Robinson and current George Washington head coach Karl Hobbs. He played basketball and baseball at Northeastern University, graduating in 1968. Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 44th 10,555 mi²; 27,360 km² 183 mi; 295 km 113 mi; 182 km 13. ... Name Cambridge Ringe and Latin Address 459 Broadway Town Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Established See Article Community Urban Type Public Secondary Religion Secular Students Coeducational Grades 9 to 12 Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) District Cambridge Public School District Nickname CRLS or Rindge Mascot Falcon Colors Black... Ewing blocking out David Robinson. ... Rumeal Robinson (born November 13, 1966 in Jamaica) was a basketball guard. ... This article is about the American institution. ...

Jarvis became head coach at Boston University in 1985, becoming the Terriers' all-time winningest coach in 5 seasons with a 101-50 record (he was later overtaken by Dennis Wolff). Boston University reached the NCAA Tournament in 1988 and 1990 under Jarvis. UT basketball players celebrates making the Elite 8 during the 2006 tournament - also UTs 100th year of basketball. ...

He was hired at George Washington in 1990, leading led the Colonials to three NCAA tournament appearances, including the round of 16 in the 1993 NCAA Tournament, the Colonials' best tournament performance. He coached the United States under-22 men's team in 1993. Jarvis also led the Colonials to two victories over #1 ranked UMass, compiling a 143-100 record at George Washington. The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst or simply UMass) is a university in Amherst, Massachusetts. ...

After the 1998 season, Jarvis accepted the head coaching job at St. John's University after Fran Fraschilla was fired, leading the Redmen (now the Red Storm) to the Elite 8 in the 1999 NCAA Tournament and the 2000 Big East tournament championship. Following scandals, including having players arrested, and a lack of success, Jarvis was fired during the 2003 season, the first ever Big East coach to be fired during the season. His final record at St. John's was 110-61. The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of thirteen universities, mostly in the northeastern United States: Boston College (scheduled to leave in 2005) University of Connecticut (UConn) Georgetown University (Plays Division I-AA football in the Patriot League) University of Notre Dame (Plays Division I-A football... The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of seventeen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. ...

Jarvis now works for ESPN as a college basketball commentator and also works as a speaker.

Sources

• http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/story/6938411
• http://espn.go.com/ncb/s/2000/1021/830880.html
• http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/archives/almanac/athletics/menbaskbal.html
• http://premierespeakers.com/1923/index.cfm
• http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2002/feb02/htmls/cover_jarvis.html
• http://www.alfatherhood.org/conference_events.htm
• http://www.corporateartists.com/speaker_mike_jarvis.html