Overview

• Raveling’s family said he died after a battle with cancer and that he was surrounded by loved ones.
• Michael Jordan praised Raveling in a statement and said he signed with Nike because of him, crediting their bond from 1984.
• Raveling went 335-293 as head coach at Washington State, Iowa and USC and was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2015.
• He served on the 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic staffs and later became Nike’s global basketball marketing director, introducing Jordan to Sonny Vaccaro.
• He obtained the original typewritten 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963 and donated it to Villanova in 2021, with the document preserved at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.