The four head coaches at the Hall of Fame Series double-header on Monday in Las Vegas – including Gonzaga’s Mark Few – helped to launch the Bill Walton Foundation with a combined $32,000 donation in honor of the legendary Hall of Famer.
The four coaches – Few, Matt Painter at Purdue, Tommy Lloyd at Arizona, and Mick Cronin at UCLA – each donated $8,000 for a total of $32,000 in honor of Walton’s iconic jersey No. 32.
The gift is going to help jumpstart the Bill Walton Foundation’s “Shine On Scholarship”, which was created to provide college scholarships for young people overcoming homelessness in each of the four cities Walton spent his career – San Diego, Los Angeles, Boston, and Portland…