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  Sport Basketball
  Birthplace Indianapolis, Indiana
  College Rice
  Title Head coach
  Player
  Years 1978–1982
  Team Rice
  Coach
  CoachYears 1985–1986<br />1986–1987<br />1987–1991<br />1991–1992<br />1992–present
  CoachTeams Rice (asst)<br /> Strake Jesuit Prep <br /> Rice (asst)<br /> Stanford (asst)<br /> Rice


Willis Thomas Wilson, Jr. (born March 22 , 1960 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) is a College Basketball Head Coach , currently in his 15th season at Rice University .

Similar to the nickname of basketball coaching legend John Wooden ("The Wizard of Westwood"), Willis is nicknamed "The Wizard of West U" ("West U" referring to West University Place , a city near Rice University). {Link without Title}

Wilson is a two-time winner of the Fashionable 4 , which awards a bobble-head doll to the coach it deems to be the best dressed in Division I college basketball. He won for the first time in 2002 and won his second title in 2007. He is also the only coach to reach the Fashionable 4 all 10 years of its existence. [http://www.tbo.com/life/MGB9JZGGRZE.html


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