1967      1968      1969

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
UCLA North Carolina Ohio State Houston
John Wooden Dean Smith Fred Taylor Guy Lewis

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1968 All 4 2 1
1 Phil Woolpert, San Diego 15 4   13-2 .867 1958 3 2 2
2 Fred Taylor, Ohio State 10 4 3-1 13-3 .813 1968 4 3 1
3 Frank McGuire, South Carolina 18 4   10-3 .769 1959 2 2 1
4 Don Haskins, UTEP 7 4   9-3 .750 1967 1 1 1
5 Vic Bubas, Duke 9 4   11-4 .733 1966 3 1 0
T6 George Ireland, Loyola-Chicago 17 4 0-1 7-3 .700 1968 1 1 1
T6 Dave Strack, Michigan 9 3   7-3 .700 1966 2 1 0
8 Hank Iba, Oklahoma State 39 8   15-7 .682 1965 4 3 2
9 John Wooden, UCLA 22 9 4-0 19-9 .679 1968 5 4 4
10 Adolph Rupp, Kentucky 38 16 1-1 27-13 .675 1968 6 5 4
11 Forddy Anderson, Hiram Scott* 21 4   9-5 .643 1959 3 2 0
T12 Don Donoher, Dayton 4 3   7-4 .636 1967 1 1 0
T12 Harry Litwack, Temple 16 4   7-4 .636 1967 2 0 0
14 Guy Lewis, Houston 12 5 3-2 11-8 .579 1968 2 0 0
T15 Jack Gardner, Utah 25 8   12-12 .500 1966 4 1 0
T15 Abe Lemons, Oklahoma City 13 6   7-7 .500 1966 0 0 0
T15 Lou Rossini, NYU 18 4   6-6 .500 1963 1 0 0
18 Tex Winter, Kansas State 17 6 0-2 7-9 .438 1968 2 0 0
T19 Ray Meyer, DePaul 26 6   6-9 .400 1965 1 0 0
T19 Steve Belko, Oregon 18 6   4-6 .400 1961 0 0 0
21 Everett Shelton, Cal State Sacramento* 31 8   4-12 .250 1958 1 1 1


Highlights:

UCLA wins again, making John Wooden the first coach to win back-to-back titles twice, and tying him with Adolph Rupp at four tournament championships.  Wooden passes four coaches on the list, ending up in the top ten for the first time, behind Hank Iba, but ahead of Rupp who only manages one win and a loss.
An opening round loss for Loyola-Chicago is enough for George Ireland to debut on the list at .700. Ireland and Loyola won a title with a great overtime victory over Cincinnati in 1963.
Fred Taylor returns Ohio State to the Final Four, dropping his record slightly to .813, but remaining in second place.
Guy Lewis leads Houston to the Final Four for the second time in two years and improves his record to .579 at 11-8.
Tex Winter and Kansas State go 0-2 to drop below .500 at .438.
Whether or not it has to do with trying to compete with the mighty John Wooden, six coaches on the list (Julian, Combes, Hickman, van Breda Kolff, Brannon, and Hayes) drop out of the active coaching ranks this year.





















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