California Colleges & Universities

San Francisco, CA — Private Jesuit university, est. 1855; home of the Dons; alma mater of Bill Russell (Basketball HOF) — the West Monroe, Louisiana native who went on to anchor 11 Boston Celtics championship teams; also produced K.C. Jones (Russell's Celtics teammate) and Bill Cartwright; one of the great stories in college basketball: a small Jesuit school in San Francisco produced two players who became the backbone of the greatest dynasty in NBA history