1973      1974      1975

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
North Carolina State Marquette UCLA Kansas
Norm Sloan Al McGuire John Wooden Ted Owens

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1974 All 4 2 1
1 Ed Jucker, Rollins* 14 3   11-1 .917 1963 3 3 2
2 John Wooden, UCLA 28 15 3-1 42-10 .808 1974 11 9 9
3 Fred Taylor, Ohio State 16 5   14-4 .778 1971 4 3 1
4 George Ireland, Loyola-Chicago 23 4   7-3 .700 1968 1 1 1
5 Don Haskins, UTEP 13 5   9-4 .692 1970 1 1 1
6 Al McGuire, Marquette 17 6 4-1 13-7 .650 1974 1 1 0
7 Frank McGuire, South Carolina 24 8 0-1 14-8 .636 1974 2 2 1
8 Dean Smith, North Carolina 13 4   10-6 .625 1972 4 1 0
9 Jack Kraft, Rhode Island 13 6   11-7 .611 1972 1 1 0
10 Jerry Tarkanian, UNLV 6 4   7-5 .583 1973 0 0 0
11 Lefty Driesell, Maryland 14 4   6-5 .545 1973 0 0 0
12 Lou Henson, New Mexico State 12 5   7-6 .538 1971 1 0 0
13 Guy Lewis, Houston 18 9   14-13 .519 1973 2 0 0
T14 Don Donoher, Dayton 10 6 1-2 8-8 .500 1974 1 1 0
T14 Fred Schaus, Purdue 8 6   6-6 .500 1960 1 1 0
T14 Ted Owens, Kansas 10 4 2-2 6-6 .500 1974 2 0 0
T14 Joe Williams, Furman 10 4 1-2 5-5 .500 1974 1 1 0
18 Abe Lemons, Texas-Pan American 19 7   7-8 .467 1973 0 0 0
19 Tex Winter, Northwestern 21 6   7-9 .438 1968 2 0 0
20 Ned Wulk, Arizona State 23 6   5-7 .417 1973 0 0 0
21 Ray Meyer, DePaul 32 6   6-9 .400 1965 1 0 0
22 James Snyder, Ohio 25 7 0-1 3-8 .273 1974 0 0 0


Highlights:

For the first time since 1966 (when UCLA was not invited to play in the tournament), John Wooden does NOT improve his record and for the first time since 1963, his record actually goes down from the previous year.  In this case, "down" means down to .808, better than any active Division I coach.  North Carolina State breaks UCLA's incredible seven year domination of the tournament by defeating them in the semi-finals, leaving UCLA with "only" a national third place finish (in fact, the only consolation game Wooden managed to win in five tries).
Al McGuire leads Marquette to the final game, and improves his record to .650, jumping three spots to land just ahead of Frank McGuire whose South Carolina team suffers a first round loss.
Dayton suffers two losses against one win to drop Don Donoher to .500.
Kansas wins two games to make the Final Four, but loses twice there to finish fourth in the tournament, giving Ted Owens enough games to debut on the list at .500.  Owens also led Kansas to a fourth place finish in 1971.  While two trips to the Final Four in four years is quite an accomplishment, failing to win a Final Four game leaves Owens with only a 4-4 record to show for those two appearances.
One win and two loses for Furman puts Joe Williams on the list tied with four other coaches with .500 records.  In 1970, Williams took Jacksonville (lead by 7-footer Artis Gilmore) to the title game against UCLA.
Tex Winter returns to the active coaching ranks after two years off, this time with Northwestern.  Like Ted Owens of Kansas, Winter's trips to the Final Four with Kansas State in '58 and '64 only resulted in a 4-4 record.  He and Ray Meyer are the only two active coaches with losing tournament records who have been to the Final Four.
Ohio's first round loss keeps James Snyder firmly in last place at .273.





















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