RIP to a Cincy Legend
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Per GoBearcats
University of Cincinnati Athletics Hall of Famer and former broadcaster Chuck Machock passed away Saturday. He was 82.
Machock’s imprint on the men’s basketball program reached through many decades of its great tradition: as a player (1956-57) and student coach (1958-59) alongside Oscar Robertson; to an assistant coach (1990-93) under former head coach Bob Huggins; to later becoming an analyst (1993-2017) for 700 WLW radio broadcasts of Bearcats’ games for 25 seasons.
A native of Elyria, Ohio, Machock wore the Cincinnati uniform during the 1956 and 1957 seasons before becoming a student coach under George Smith as the Bearcats made their first two appearances in the NCAA Final Four.
As an assistant coach under Huggins, Machock helped mentor the Bearcats to a 94-36 (.723) overall record, an appearance in the 1992 NCAA Final Four and Great Midwest Conference regular-season and tournament championships in 1992 and 1993.
By the time he capped off his coaching career with Huggins in the early 1990s, Machock had built a coaching career that spanned 29 seasons at various levels. He started at the high school level at St. Henry’s High School (1960) in Erlanger, Ky., before returning home to Elyria High School (1961-66). He then moved up to the collegiate level, earning an assistant coaching position at Akron (1968-69); the head coach title at Steubenville College (1969-72); assistant coaching positions at West Virginia (1972-74), Ball State (1974-76) and Ohio State (1977-83); and a head coaching job at UCF (1984-85) before returning to Cincinnati.
As an assistant at Ohio State (1977-83) under Eldon Miller, Machock helped guide the Buckeyes to three NCAA Tournament appearances and four 20-win seasons while recruiting nine players that later played in the NBA. As head coach at Steubenville College (1969-72), he won 38 games in three seasons, turning around a program that had posted only 11 victories in the three seasons prior to his arrival.
Machock was inducted into the UC Athletics James P. Kelly Hall of Fame as a contributor in October 2016.
He is survived by his wife Dottie, as well as by his three children Bob, Sandy and Mindy and three grandchildren Mitchell, Kaylee and Emily.
