1975      1976      1977

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
Indiana Michigan UCLA Rutgers
Bob Knight Johnny Orr Gene Bartow Tom Young

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1976 All 4 2 1
1 Ed Jucker, Rollins* 16 3   11-1 .917 1963 3 3 2
2 Bob Knight, Indiana 11 3 5-0 10-2 .833 1976 2 1 1
3 Fred Taylor, Ohio State 18 5   14-4 .778 1971 4 3 1
4 Don Haskins, UTEP 15 6   9-5 .643 1975 1 1 1
5 Frank McGuire, South Carolina 26 8   14-8 .636 1974 2 2 1
6 Al McGuire, Marquette 19 8 2-1 15-9 .625 1976 1 1 0
7 Jack Kraft, Rhode Island 15 6   11-7 .611 1972 1 1 0
8 Dean Smith, North Carolina 15 6 0-1 12-8 .600 1976 4 1 0
9 Jerry Tarkanian, UNLV 8 6 1-1 10-7 .588 1976 0 0 0
10 Lefty Driesell, Maryland 16 5   8-6 .571 1975 0 0 0
T11 Denny Crum, Louisville 5 3   6-5 .545 1975 2 0 0
T11 Digger Phelps, Notre Dame 6 4 1-1 6-5 .545 1976 0 0 0
13 Guy Lewis, Houston 20 9   14-13 .519 1973 2 0 0
T14 Don Donoher, Dayton 12 6   8-8 .500 1974 1 1 0
T14 Lou Henson, Illinois 14 6   7-7 .500 1975 1 0 0
T14 Fred Schaus, Purdue 10 6   6-6 .500 1960 1 1 0
T14 Lou Rossini, St. Francis (NY) 22 4   6-6 .500 1963 1 0 0
T14 Roy Danforth, Syracuse 8 4 0-1 5-5 .500 1976 1 0 0
T19 Abe Lemons, Texas-Pan American 21 7   7-8 .467 1973 0 0 0
T19 Ned Wulk, Arizona State 25 7   7-8 .467 1975 0 0 0
21 Ted Owens, Kansas 12 5   6-7 .462 1975 2 0 0
22 Joe Williams, Furman 12 5   5-6 .455 1975 1 1 0
23 Tex Winter, Northwestern 23 6   7-9 .438 1968 2 0 0
24 Ray Meyer, DePaul 34 7 1-1 7-10 .412 1976 1 0 0


Highlights:

Although John Wooden is retired now, UCLA is back, finishing third with their new coach Gene Bartow, but it's Bobby Knight who wins it all this year with an undefeated Indiana team.  Knight replaces Wooden as the active Division I coach with the best tournament winning percentage (and has a slightly higher percentage than Wooden has in retirement).  Only Ed Jucker, who coaches Division II Rollins has a better Division I tournament record.
Al McGuire takes Marquette to its sixth straight tournament appearance and eighth in the last nine years, wins two games and improves to .625, good for sixth place.
North Carolina's first round loss drops Dean Smith to an even .600.
Jerry Tarkanian brings UNLV back to win one and lose one, dropping him below .600 to .588.
In Notre Dame's third tournament in a row, they win one and lose one allowing Digger Phelps to debut on the list at .545.
Syracuse's Roy Danforth debut's on the list at .500, tied with five others for fourteenth place.  Danforth took Syracuse to the Final Four last year, though their fourth place finish only gave him a 3-2 record for his efforts.
Ray Meyer and DePaul manage to win one and lose one, improving Meyer's record slightly, but not enough to get out of last place.





















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