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Bucknell’s Flannery announces retirement

This March 19, 2006 file photo shows Bucknell basketball coach Pat Flannery pleading with an official during the first half of their NCAA tournament second-round basketball game against Memphis in Dallas. Flannery is retiring after 14 years on the bench at his alma mater. A person at the university told The Associated Press of Flannery's retirement Friday morning, April 18, 2008.

Pat Flannery tugged on his suit before stepping to the podium, a routine he’d performed hundreds of times in postgame news conferences in his 14 years as Bucknell basketball coach. Friday was different. He wasn’t rehashing the Bison’s two NCAA tournaments during his tenure, highlighted by an upset of Kansas in 2005, nor explaining how the small Patriot League school could reach the Top 25 the…

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