1972      1973      1974

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
UCLA Memphis Indiana Providence
John Wooden Gene Bartow Bob Knight Dave Gavitt

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1973 All 4 2 1
1 Ed Jucker, Rollins* 13 3   11-1 .917 1963 3 3 2
2 John Wooden, UCLA 27 14 4-0 39-9 .813 1973 10 9 9
3 Fred Taylor, Ohio State 15 5   14-4 .778 1971 4 3 1
4 George Ireland, Loyola-Chicago 22 4   7-3 .700 1968 1 1 1
5 Don Haskins, UTEP 12 5   9-4 .692 1970 1 1 1
6 Frank McGuire, South Carolina 23 7 2-1 14-7 .667 1973 2 2 1
7 Dean Smith, North Carolina 12 4   10-6 .625 1972 4 1 0
8 Jack Kraft, Villanova 12 6   11-7 .611 1972 1 1 0
9 Al McGuire, Marquette 16 5 2-1 9-6 .600 1973 0 0 0
10 Jerry Tarkanian, Long Beach State 5 4 2-1 7-5 .583 1973 0 0 0
11 Lefty Driesell, Maryland 13 4 1-1 6-5 .545 1973 0 0 0
T12 Harry Litwack, Temple 21 6   7-6 .538 1972 2 0 0
T12 Lou Henson, New Mexico State 11 5   7-6 .538 1971 1 0 0
T12 Don Donoher, Dayton 9 5   7-6 .538 1970 1 1 0
15 Guy Lewis, Houston 17 9 0-1 14-13 .519 1973 2 0 0
16 Fred Schaus, Purdue 7 6   6-6 .500 1960 1 1 0
17 Abe Lemons, Oklahoma City 18 7 0-1 7-8 .467 1973 0 0 0
18 Ned Wulk, Arizona State 22 6 1-2 5-7 .417 1973 0 0 0
19 Ray Meyer, DePaul 31 6   6-9 .400 1965 1 0 0
20 James Snyder, Ohio 24 6   3-7 .300 1972 0 0 0


Highlights:

In Bill Walton's second season, UCLA breaks the record set by Bill Russell's USF team of 60 straight wins and takes a 70 game win streak into the tournament.  Not surprisingly, UCLA wins another title, giving John Wooden seven titles in a row and nine tournament championships all together.  At .813, Wooden widens his lead over Ohio State's Fred Taylor, but Ed Jucker returns to coaching college ball, bringing his .917 record earned while coaching Cincinnati to take back first place.
Frank McGuire guides South Carolina to two wins and one loss maintaining his .667 record.
Al McGuire leads Marquette to two wins to improve his record to .600.
Jerry Tarkanian leads Long Beach State to two wins for the third year in a row to debut on the list at .583.  Unfortunately, the NCAA took away all of those wins, leaving Tarkanian with an official tournament record of 1-2.
Lefty Driesell debuts on the list at 6-5 after leading Maryland to one win and a loss.  All of his previous tournament appearances were as head coach of Davidson.
Arizona State wins one, but loses two games allowing Ned Wulk to debut on the list at .417.





















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