Hickey, Edgar S.
Basketball
b. Dec. 20, 1902, Reynolds, NE
d. Dec. 7, 1980
Hickey played football and basketball at Creighton University and, as a senior law student in 1926-27, he coached basketball at Creighton University High School, also known as Creighton Prep. He had planned to become an attorney with his father's real estate firm, but his father was killed in a car accident and Hickey remained at Creighton Prep after receiving his degree, coaching track and football as well as basketball.
He became the Creighton University basketball coach in 1935. His 1943 team won the National Invitation Tournament, after which Hickey entered the U. S. Navy. He returned to Creighton after his discharge in 1946 and coached there one more season before moving to St. Louis University in 1947.
Led by "Easy Ed" Macauley, St. Louis won the 1948 NIT. Hickey remained at the school until 1958, when he became basketball coach and athletic director at Marquette University. His first team won the 1959 NCAA championship, and Marquette won the title again in 1961. Hickey retired after the 1963-64 season.
His overall record was 435 wins and 222 losses. Hickey developed the modern three-lane fast break, in which the player with the ball heads down the middle of the floor toward the basket, flanked by two wing men.