A look at the alltime winningest coaches in division i mens and womens college basketball history. The 34point margin is the largest in final four history. He also leads the nba for the most postseason games coached and the most postseason. Not even coach k has more ws than the woman who posted a 1098208 record from. Apr 01, 2012 most victories in an ncaa division i mens college basketball season xthrough saturday. The 16 most hated college basketball players of all time need to know. In the history of college basketball, only four programs have won 2,000 games. The tigers 24 wins in 19992000 marked the secondmost wins in school history, and the tigers 509 record over the two years was the fourthbest mark in the nation behind duke, cincinnati and stanford. The list includes only games at the ncaa, 1 aiaw and naia 2 3 levels.
He won six titles with the bulls and five titles with the lakers. The 100 best college basketball books recommended by marc stein, adam. Exhibition games and games vacated by the ncaa are not included on this list. Season points, career rebounds, yearly assists, season wins, career wl% college. Kentucky has one of the most storied college basketball. Most golden state warriors fans have attended a game at oracle arena, marveled at stephen currys effortless shots, and remember where they were when the team won the 2015 nba championship. Those appearances have resulted in 91 wins, 12 final four appearances, and five national championships. The 100 greatest coaches in college basketball history 0 of 100 names like krzyzewski, knight and rupp are inextricably linked with the programs they turned into dynasties. Florida state coach mike martin now has 1,976 career wins, making him the alltime winningest coach in college baseball history. The 9 college baseball coaches with the most career wins. This is a list of college mens basketball coaches by number of career wins across all three divisions of the national collegiate athletic association ncaa and. List of teams with the most victories in ncaa division i men. The most successful coach in xaviers proud history, pete gillen won 202. College basketballs winningest coach jerry tarkanian, terry pluto on.
Who is the greatest coach in college basketball history. Coaches with the most march madness championships aol news. The league consists of 30 teams, of which 29 are located in the united states and one in canada. All of them have captured a national championship since 2008, combining for six of the 11 titles in that span. A brief history of college basketball an ncaa champion. In 20 years as head coach of duke universitys blue devils, mike krzyzewski has built one of the most impressive records in college basketball history. She has eight national titles and has an unbelievable winning percentage of 84. Rank college first season seasons wins losses ties win% 1 kentucky. Pat summitt, who was the head coach of the tennessee lady volunteers from 19742012, tops the list with 1,098 career wins. List of teams with the most victories in ncaa division i womens college basketball references edit ncaas 2019 division i mens basketball records all time winningest schools through the 20182019 season begins on page 74. In the history of division i mens college basketball, just 120 coaches have amassed at least 500 wins. Jul 18, 2011 she has the most wins by a coach at any level in mens or womens college basketball with 1,071 wins.
List of national basketball association head coaches with 400. This book presents coach ks insights on topics from teamwork to commitment. Don meyer, one of college basketballs winningest coaches. Pat summitt, most successful womens college basketball. List of vacated and forfeited games in college basketball. Mar 18, 2018 the victory was the 1,099th of krzyzewskis career, breaking a tie with late tennessee womens coach pat summitt for the most wins by a basketball coach in ncaa history. He is the only coach who has won multiple championships with multiple teams. The list includes only games at the ncaa, aiaw and naia levels. John calipari assembled what was, at the time, considered one of the most stacked college basketball squads in the history of the game for the kentucky wildcats in 2014.
Mens di college basketball coaches with the most wins. Don meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a nearfatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out. The national basketball association nba is a major professional basketball league in north america. Pat summitt, most successful womens college basketball coach. No ncaa basketball coach has more wins than tennessees pat summitt. The team finished the season with a 283 record, tying the most wins in a single season in program history and their. College basketball players come and go, but coaches have a longevity rarely. Best college basketball coaches top ten list thetoptens.
The winningest coach in college basketball history, who has been on the sidelines for 42 years five at army, the rest at duke, has led his teams to 33 tournaments. At the end of the 201415 season, calipari became the 96th coach to join the naismith memorial basketball hall of fame, considered one of the ultimate achievements in the game. On sunday, michigan coach john beilein was asked about his universitys entanglement with the phantom zoneboth as a team that had lost to a. Cedric baker womens basketball coach savannah state. It is a wellresearched and wellwritten history of the 19731974 ncaa basketball season and the beginnings of the expansion of the ncaa tournament and its transition into fullblown march madness. May 05, 2018 florida state coach mike martin now has 1,976 career wins, making him the alltime winningest coach in college baseball history. In 2003, his team finished third in the southern intercollegiate athletic conference siac eastern division with a 199 record. The 53 combined wins were the most wins in backtoback seasons in school history. List of college womens basketball coaches with 600 wins. One of the most beloved teams in program history authored one of the greatest seasons in program history as the volunteers tied the school record for wins, finishing 316 153 sec.
Mar 17, 2018 krzyzewski, 71, now stands alone in the history books. Rank college first season seasons wins losses ties win % 1 kentucky. It was founded in 1946 as the basketball association of america baa. The win would be uconns 70th consecutive win, tying the record for the longest winning streak in the history of ncaa division i womens college basketball, set by the huskies in 2003. Pat summit is the winningest coach in ncaa basketball history, and. Most victories in an ncaa division i mens college basketball season xthrough saturday. Oosterbaan, and mark hughes all of whom played from 1986 and 1989 as well as jordan morgan 2011 to 2014. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers.
College football coaches who have coached college teams for 10 or more seasons are included in the list. Zavier simpson and jon teske are the winningest players in. Mike krzyzewski has the most total victories mens or womens with 1,157. The 100 greatest coaches in college basketball history bleacher. A thousand and ninetyeight victories, a couple of irrelevant losses.
Ncaa should reinstate vacated teams to the record books. The 100 greatest coaches in college basketball history. She has the most wins by a coach at any level in mens or womens college basketball with 1,071 wins. When a coach writes a book called developing an offensive attack in basketball. This is the most recent tripledigit college basketball margin on record. Just in time for march madness, josh robinson picks the 5 best books on college basketball, from john mcphees. Sporting news ranks the 50 greatest coaches of all time. College level is defined as a fouryear college or university program in either the national association of intercollegiate athletics naia or the national collegiate athletic association ncaa. Coach k passes summitt for most wins in ncaa history. Krzyzewski, 71, now stands alone in the history books. List of national basketball association head coaches with. Legendary amherst college head mens basketball coach david hixon 75, who holds the record for number of wins in a single sport while coaching at amherst, has decided to retire, director of athletics donald faulstick announced today. The book contains some tales of how assistant coaches babysit players, in the. Cliff ellis mens basketball coach coastal carolina.
List of college baseball coaches with 1,100 wins wikipedia. Coach k has racked up the most tournament wins of any coach in history, topping the alltime list with 90. Most memorable college basketball teams of the decade. The league adopted its current name at the start of the 194950 season when it merged with the national basketball league nbl. The number one reason is that he won 10 national championships in 12 years at ucla. North carolinasecondwinningest program in ncaa history sustained only one losing mark in a 30year stretch from 192021 through 194950. The highest winning percentage in the group belongs to geno auriemma, head coach of the uconn huskies since 1985, with an. Single season coaching leaders and records for wins. Tennessee mens basketball history university of tennessee. This is a list of college mens basketball coaches by number of career wins across all three divisions of the national collegiate athletic association ncaa and both divisions of the national association of intercollegiate athletics naia. Jun 28, 2016 pat summitt, the most successful coach in division i college basketball history who lifted the womens game from obscurity to national prominence during her 38year career at tennessee, died on. This is a list of college womens basketball coaches by number of career wins. In a march to madness, author john feinstein stated kentuckys basketball history is as much about ncaa investigations and payoffs as it is about winning championships.
This is a list of top ncaa division i mens basketball teams ranked by the number of wins through the end of the last completed season, 201819. Hes won 1,026 games including five national championships in 38 years at duke after winning 73 in five years at army in the mid1970s. College basketballs 10 greatest programs of all time. Krzyzewski is a family man first, a teacher second, a basketball coach third, and a winner at all three. Energized by a strong firstyear class, griffith coached columbia to its most ivy league wins in eight years during the 201819 campaign. Only one has ever passed the millennium mark dukes mike krzyzewski, who has 1,2. Winningest division i college basketball coaches newsday. Legendary amherst college mens basketball coach david hixon. List of college mens basketball coaches with 600 wins. Legendary amherst college mens basketball coach david. Twice at uk in 2012 and in 2015 his teams have won 38 games, tying his 2008 memphis team for the most wins in college basketball history.
Just in time for march madness, josh robinson picks the 5 best books on college basketball, from john mcphees profile of bill bradley to mitch alboms trash. Alltime winningest mens and womens division i college basketball. Proposal would affect when schools count toward automatic qualification waiting period. Ncaamost singleseason victories mens college basketball. Top 10 college womens basketball coaches of alltime. Uclas run cemented college basketballs transition from new yorkcentric origins to a sport that garnered national fanfare. The victory was the 1,099th of krzyzewskis career, breaking a tie with late tennessee womens coach pat summitt for the most wins by a basketball coach in. One of the most respected coaches in the state, coyle klingers program at rutgers prep was one of the most successful of the past decade, averaging just under 20 wins per season. Calipari is one of only two coaches williams in ncaa division i history to have 400 or more wins in his first 16 years as a head coach, and his 173 victories from 200812 are the most ever for a. Mike krzyzewski leads duke over rhode island, sets record. List of college mens basketball coaches with 600 wins wikipedia. Martin is the first ncaa baseball coach to amass 2,000 career victories. Pat summitt, the alltime winningest coach in ncaa basketball history and bestselling author of reach for the summitt and raise the roof, tells for the first time.
Sep 15, 2015 the 34point margin is the largest in final four history. Mike martin breaks alltime college baseball wins record. Womens college basketball coaches with the most wins in. She was named head coach in march of 2016 after spending the past six years at princeton university. Baker comes to ssu from benedict college where he served as head womens basketball coach and guided the program to a 5529 overall record during his tenure. National coach of the year rick barnes guided tennessee to a schoolrecord 19game win streak, a perfect 180 record at thompsonboling arena and a programrecord. List of teams with the most victories in ncaa division i. The winningest coaches in di mens basketball history vanderveer has had 10 seasons of at least 31 wins in the past 15 years. May 18, 2014 don meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a nearfatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, has died in south dakota. If you are even a moderate college basketball fan you cannot go wrong by reading this book. Career coaching leaders and records for wins college. Krzyzewski already had won three ncaa titles and been to 10 final fours when he was hired to coach usa basketballs. Season points, career rebounds, yearly assists, season wins, career wl% college basketball scores unlv 77, duke 79, kentucky 103, duke 104, unc 54, kansas 53, nc state 54, houston 52. Pat summitt, the most successful coach in division i college basketball history who lifted the womens game from obscurity to national prominence during.