1984      1985      1986

Champion Second Place Third place (tied) Third place (tied)
Villanova Georgetown St. John's Memphis
Rollie Massimino John Thompson Lou Carnesecca Dana Kirk

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1985 (seed) All 4 2 1
1 Bob Knight, Indiana 20 9   21-7 .750 1984 3 2 2
2 Lee Rose, South Florida 18 2   8-3 .727 1980 2 0 0
T3 Rollie Massimino, Villanova 14 7 6-0  (8) 15-6 .714 1985 1 1 1
T3 Jim Valvano, North Carolina State 14 5 3-1  (3) 10-4 .714 1985 1 1 1
5 Joe B. Hall, Kentucky 19 10 2-1  (12) 20-9 .690 1985 3 2 1
6 John Thompson, Georgetown 13 9 5-1  (1) 17-8 .680 1985 3 3 1
T7 Jud Heathcote, Michigan State 14 4 0-1  (10) 8-4 .667 1985 1 1 1
T7 Dana Kirk, Memphis State 14 4 4-1  (2) 8-4 .667 1985 1 0 0
9 Dean Smith, North Carolina 24 15 3-1  (2) 31-16 .660 1985 7 4 1
10 Terry Holland, Virginia 16 6   11-6 .647 1984 2 0 0
T11 Denny Crum, Louisville 14 11   21-12 .636 1984 5 1 1
T11 Larry Brown, Kansas 4 4 1-1  (3) 7-4 .636 1985 1 1 0
13 Gene Bartow, Ala.-Birmingham 23 8 1-1  (7) 13-8 .619 1985 2 1 0
14 Hugh Durham, Georgia 19 5 1-1  (6) 8-5 .615 1985 2 1 0
15 Jack Hartman, Kansas State 23 7   11-7 .611 1982 0 0 0
16 Jerry Tarkanian, UNLV 17 10 1-1  (4) 17-11 .607 1985 1 0 0
17 Guy Lewis, Houston 29 14   26-18 .591 1984 5 2 0
18 Don Haskins, UTEP 24 8 1-1  (11) 10-7 .588 1985 1 1 1
T19 Johnny Orr, Iowa State 20 5 0-1  (13) 7-5 .583 1985 1 1 0
T19 Butch van Breda Kolff, Lafayette 19 4   7-5 .583 1967 1 0 0
T19 Billy Tubbs, Oklahoma 11 5 3-1  (1) 7-5 .583 1985 0 0 0
22 Lefty Driesell, Maryland 25 10 2-1  (5) 14-11 .560 1985 0 0 0
T23 Eddie Sutton, Arkansas 16 10 1-1  (9) 12-10 .545 1985 1 0 0
T23 Bob Weinhauer, Arizona State 8 4   6-5 .545 1982 1 0 0
25 Digger Phelps, Notre Dame 15 10 1-1  (7) 14-12 .538 1985 1 0 0
26 Don Donoher, Dayton 21 8 0-1  (9) 11-10 .524 1985 1 1 0
27 Lou Henson, Illinois 23 10 2-1  (3) 12-11 .522 1985 1 0 0
T28 Lute Olson, Arizona 12 6 0-1  (10) 7-7 .500 1985 1 0 0
T28 Dale Brown, LSU 13 5 0-1  (4) 6-6 .500 1985 1 0 0
T28 Tom Young, Rutgers 25 4   5-5 .500 1983 1 0 0
T28 Jerry Pimm, UC Santa Barbara 11 5   5-5 .500 1983 0 0 0
T28 Carl Tacy, Wake Forest 14 5   5-5 .500 1984 0 0 0
33 Jim Boeheim, Syracuse 9 7 1-1  (7) 6-7 .462 1985 0 0 0
T34 Norm Stewart, Missouri 24 6   5-6 .455 1983 0 0 0
T34 Don DeVoe, Tennessee 14 6   5-6 .455 1983 0 0 0
36 Lou Carnesecca, St. John's 17 12 4-1  (1) 11-14 .440 1985 1 0 0
37 Joe Williams, Florida State 21 7   6-8 .429 1980 1 1 0
38 Gale Catlett, West Virginia 13 6   4-6 .400 1984 0 0 0
39 LaDell Andersen, Brigham Young 12 6   5-8 .385 1984 0 0 0
40 Ralph Miller, Oregon State 34 8 0-1  (10) 5-9 .357 1985 0 0 0


Highlights:

Just two years after NC State's stunning upset of Houston to win the national championship, Villanova executes the "perfect game" to defeat a heavily favored Georgetown team in the finals, giving Rollie Massimino the title in his first Final Four appearance.  The six wins rockets Massimino from fifteenth to third place on the active list.
John Thompson's Georgetown team returns to the championship game for the third time in four years (including last year's national championship victory), moving Thompson into the top ten at .680, good for sixth place.
Dana Kirk takes Memphis State to the Final Four, giving him enough games to debut at .667 tied for seventh place with Jud Heathcote whose Michigan State team suffers a first round loss.  Unfortunately, the NCAA took issue with the Memphis State program and vacated their games this year leaving Kirk with an official 4-3 tournament record.
St John's returns to the Final Four for the first time since 1952, improving Lou Carnesecca's record to .440 and moving him comfortably out of last place.
North Carolina State returns two years after their improbable national championship in 1983 and almost make the Final Four again. The three wins improve Jim Valvano's record to .714, good enough to tie Rollie Massimino for third place.
Larry Brown leads Kansas to a win and a loss, giving Brown enough games to debut on the list at .636, just out of the top ten.  Brown also led UCLA to the championship game loss in 1980 in his first year of coaching at the college level.  Although NCAA violations took those games away from Brown's official records, they are included here.
Oklahoma nearly makes it to the Final Four, giving Billy Tubbs enough games to debut on the list at .583 just barely in the top twenty.  Tubbs also coached at Lamar, landing tournament berths two consecutive years before going to Oklahoma.
Dean Smith leads North Carolina to the regional finals in his eleventh consecutive tournament appearance. While his record improves from .651 to .660, he drops from sixth to nineth place.
Oregon State suffers a first round loss, dropping Ralph Miller to .357 and into last place.
The brackets are expanded to a full 64 teams this year, elimating all first round Bye's.





















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