1969      1970      1971

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
UCLA Jacksonville New Mexico State St. Bonaventure
John Wooden Joe Williams Lou Henson Larry Weise

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1970 All 4 2 1
1 Fred Taylor, Ohio State 12 4   13-3 .813 1968 4 3 1
2 Frank McGuire, South Carolina 20 4   10-3 .769 1959 2 2 1
3 John Wooden, UCLA 24 11 4-0 27-9 .750 1970 7 6 6
4 George Ireland, Loyola-Chicago 19 4   7-3 .700 1968 1 1 1
5 Don Haskins, UTEP 9 5 0-1 9-4 .692 1970 1 1 1
6 Hank Iba, Oklahoma State 41 8   15-7 .682 1965 4 3 2
7 Adolph Rupp, Kentucky 40 18 1-1 29-15 .659 1970 6 5 4
8 Forddy Anderson, Hiram Scott* 23 4   9-5 .643 1959 3 2 0
9 Jack Kraft, Villanova 9 4 2-1 6-4 .600 1970 0 0 0
T10 Harry Litwack, Temple 18 5 0-1 7-5 .583 1970 2 0 0
T10 Lou Henson, New Mexico State 8 4 4-1 7-5 .583 1970 1 0 0
T10 Dean Smith, North Carolina 9 3   7-5 .583 1969 3 1 0
13 Guy Lewis, Houston 14 6 1-2 12-10 .545 1970 2 0 0
14 Don Donoher, Dayton 6 5 0-1 7-6 .538 1970 1 1 0
T15 Jack Gardner, Utah 27 8   12-12 .500 1966 4 1 0
T15 Abe Lemons, Oklahoma City 15 6   7-7 .500 1966 0 0 0
T15 Lou Rossini, NYU 20 4   6-6 .500 1963 1 0 0
18 Tex Winter, Washington 19 6   7-9 .438 1968 2 0 0
T19 Ray Meyer, DePaul 28 6   6-9 .400 1965 1 0 0
T19 Steve Belko, Oregon 20 6   4-6 .400 1961 0 0 0
T19 LaDell Andersen, Utah State 9 4 2-1 4-6 .400 1970 0 0 0
22 Stan Watts, Brigham Young 21 5   3-7 .300 1969 0 0 0


Highlights:

Even without Alcindor, UCLA wins again and John Wooden becomes the only coach to win four titles in a row, and six tournament championships all together.  Incredibly, Wooden is still only in third place at .750 behind Ohio State's Fred Taylor who did not play this year and can boast of only one championship and Frank McGuire who won a title in 1957 and hasn't been to the tournament since 1959.
Don Haskins and UTEP suffer a first round loss dropping Haskins below .700 to .692 and fifth place.
Kentucky again goes 1-1, dropping Adolph Rupp slightly to .659.
Lou Henson takes New Mexico State to the Final Four and a national third place finish to debut at .583, tied with Dean Smith.
Jack Kraft debuts on the list at .600 by leading Villanova to two victories and one loss.
Houston wins one, but loses two, dropping Guy Lewis to .545.
Utah State's 2-1 showing allows LaDell Andersen to debut near the bottom of the list at .400.





















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