Former LSU player Bob Pettit, right, leaves the NCAA college basketball game between LSU and Alabama in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023.

The private, evangelical university was founded in 1927 as Bob Jones College in Bay County, Fla. It moved to Cleveland, Tenn. in 1933, then to Greenville in 1947. It currently has about 3,000 ...

Bob Pettit – 1958-59 NBA MVP After winning the MVP in 1955-56, Pettit finished second for the award the following season. He then came in fourth place for the MVP award in 1957-58.

(RNS) — President since 2014, Pettit had helped soften some of the school’s rules while maintaining its conservative beliefs. That did not sit well with some board members.

Pettit — who starred in the NBA from 1954 to 1965 — earned All-NBA honors in every single season of his 11-year career. That 100% clip, while earned in a very different era, still technically ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The president of a private college in South Carolina has signed a deal that would keep him in the position for at least three more years. Bob Jones University President Steve ...

GREENVILLE — Bob Jones University President Steve Pettit's tenure will end May 5 after the board of trustees announced it had accepted his resignation. Pettit said on March 30 he would resign ...

The statue sits on the north side of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center next to the legendary Shaquille O’Neal and Bob Pettit figures. @LSUBasketball “Pistol” Pete Maravich statue officially ...

Located just 1.5 miles from LSU’s Tiger Stadium, the bars along Bob Pettit Boulevard are a common postgame destination for ...

Kathleen Marie “Kay” LeVasseur, 85, passed away on March 2, 2023, in Duluth, MN. Kay was born in Audubon, MN the daughter of Robert and Kathryn (Lynch) Pettit and then raised in Detroit Lakes, MN.

Jordan hails from one of the three college programs that have produced multiple NBA MVP award winners. ... Shaquille O’Neal and Bob Pettit, who was the inaugural winner of the award in 1956.