Dereck Whittenburg
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Dereck Whittenburg is an American former player and current men's basketball head coach at Fordham University. Prior to coming to Fordham, Whittenburg served as the head coach of the Wagner Seahawks.
Whittenburg is perhaps most famous for being a member of the North Carolina State Wolfpack team which won the 1983 NCAA national title. Whittenburg threw up the famous high-arching airball that Lorenzo Charles grabbed for the game-winning dunk. Whittenburg and Sidney Lowe were the two starting guards for NC State; they played high school basketball together at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland.
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