CLEMMONS - The line of well-wishers, including black and gold tie-dyed shirt-wearing fans, who came to pay their respects to Wake Forest men's basketball coach Skip Prosser snaked through Holy Family Catholic Church well past the church's lobby this afternoon.

They came to say goodbye to Prosser, who died at age 56 on Thursday, and offer condolences to Prosser's wife, his sister and mother, and his two sons.

N.C. State assistant coach Larry Harris was among the mourners.

"He never let basketball inflate his ego at all," Harris said of Prosser. "He remained the same person he was when he was a high school basketball coach in West Virginia. ... He didn't have a bad bone in his body."

The church was scheduled to stay open until 9 p.m. to accommodate anyone wanting to see Prosser before he is buried in Cincinnati on Saturday.

The lobby at Holy Family was filled with countless photos of Prosser coaching and smiling. One showed him with proudly standing with an arm around former Wake Forest guard Chris Paul, the 2006 NBA Rookie of the Year, in his New Orleans Hornets uniform.

Another showed a happy Prosser wearing camouflage raising his arms to signal a 3-pointer during a recent goodwill trip to Kuwait in May.

Flowers sent by the North Carolina, N.C. State, Florida State men's basketball coach Leonard Hamilton, Southern Methodist men's coach Matt Doherty and others from the college basketball world also filled the lobby.

Televisions mounted on the walls showed a replay of Wake Forest's triple overtime win over UNC from December 2003.

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