Basketball and fatherhood have always been intertwined for Northwestern women's basketball coach Joe McKeown
by Shannon Ryan, Chicago Tribune
Dec 26, 2019
4 minutes
EVANSTON, Ill. - Two fans of an opposing team were heckling Joe McKeown throughout a conference tournament years ago, upsetting his wife and young daughter.
McKeown, who was coaching the George Washington women's basketball team at the time, called his family over and introduced himself and them to the boisterous Temple students before tipoff. They spoke to the young men for about five minutes.
"Then (during the game) they never said a word," McKeown's daughter Meghan recalled. "He taught me about taking criticism, which has helped me throughout my life. He didn't realize how much of an
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