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Hank Iba leads Oklahoma State to two wins against
one loss and joins Rupp on the list at .700. Iba was the first
coach to win back to back titles ('47 and '48), which in fact were
in his first tournament appearances. He won his first two games in
the 1949 tournament to set a record of eight wins without a loss,
a record that was tied by Branch McCracken of Indiana in 1954 and
broken by Ken Loeffler of La Salle in 1955 with nine in a row without
a loss. The all-time record was set in 1957 by Phil Woolpert
of USF who won his first eleven tournament games in the course of
winning two straight titles and a national third place from 1955
to 1957. Ed Jucker tied and very nearly broke Woolpert's record
in 1963 when Cincinnati came within one game of winning it's third
straight tournament.
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