Ohio State Buckeyes basketball great Larry Siegfried dies at 71

Ohio State basketball great Larry Siegfried, who won a national title with the Buckeyes in 1960 and lost in the 1961 title game, has died.

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Larry Siegfried, who won an NCAA championship with the Buckeyes in 1960 and lost in the title game in 1961, has died of complications from a heart attack he suffered on Oct. 5, according to his daughter, Erin Siegfried. Siegfried, 71, died last night, Dispatch reporter Bob Baptist said in an item posted on the paper's website.

Siegfried, was captain of the 1960-61 team and a second-team All-American. He led Ohio State in scoring as a sophomore in 1958-59 with a 19.6-point average and still ranks among the Buckeyes' best free throw shooters with an .819 career percentage.

He was the No.3 pick in the 1961 NBA draft, by the Cincinnati Royals, but played two seasons in the American Basketball Association with the Cleveland Pipers before joining former Ohio State teammate John Havlicek with the NBA's Boston Celtics.

Siegfried played seven seasons in Boston and won five NBA championships.

Arrangements for the funeral, which will be held in his native Shelby, Ohio, are pending, according to Baptist's post.