1959      1960      1961

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
Ohio State California Cincinnati NYU
Fred Taylor Pete Newell George Smith Lou Rossini

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1960 All 4 2 1
1 Branch McCracken, Indiana 27 4   9-2 .818 1958 2 2 2
T2 Frank McGuire, North Carolina 13 4   10-3 .769 1959 2 2 1
T2 Pete Newell, California 14 4 4-1 10-3 .769 1960 2 2 1
4 Adolph Rupp, Kentucky 30 11   21-7 .750 1959 5 4 4
5 Harry Combes, Illinois 13 3   8-3 .727 1952 3 0 0
T6 Hank Iba, Oklahoma State 31 7   14-6 .700 1958 4 3 2
T6 George Smith, Cincinnati 8 3 3-1 7-3 .700 1960 2 0 0
8 Doggie Julian, Dartmouth 24 5   9-4 .692 1959 2 1 1
9 Forddy Anderson, Michigan State 14 4   9-5 .643 1959 3 2 0
10 John Jordan, Notre Dame 9 5 0-1 8-5 .615 1960 0 0 0
T11 Jack Gardner, Utah 17 6 2-1 8-8 .500 1960 2 1 0
T11 Bob Feerick, Santa Clara 10 4 0-2 6-6 .500 1960 1 0 0
T11 Everett Case, North Carolina State 14 5   6-6 .500 1956 1 0 0
T11 Fred Schaus, West Virginia 6 6 2-1 6-6 .500 1960 1 1 0
15 Ben Carnevale, Navy 16 6 0-1 6-7 .462 1960 1 1 0
16 Ray Meyer, DePaul 18 5 2-1 5-7 .417 1960 1 0 0
17 Buster Brannon, TCU 16 5   4-6 .400 1959 0 0 0
18 Everett Shelton, Cal State Sacramento* 23 8   4-12 .250 1958 1 1 1


Highlights:

With Phil Woolpert no longer coaching college ball, Branch McCracken takes over first place on the list.
Pete Newell tries for a second straight national championship, but California falls to Ohio State in the title game.  Newell debuts on the list tied for second place at .769.
George Smith takes a Cincinnati team lead by the great Oscar Robertson to the Final Four for the second straight year and debuts at .700 tied for sixth place with Hank Iba.
Jack Gardner gets two wins out of Utah to pull his record up to .500.
Fred Schaus takes a West Virginia team lead by Jerry West to the Sweet Sixteen after a second place finish in 1959 to debut on the list at .500.
Longtime DePaul coach Ray Meyer debuts on the list at .417.  Meyer would have had a more impressive NCAA tournament record had he not chosen the NIT over the NCAA tournament twice back in the George Mikan days (1945 and 1946).  The NIT was considered the more prestigious tournament in those days and provided more money for the participating schools.





















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