1974      1975      1976

Champion Second Place Third place Fourth place
UCLA Kentucky Louisville Syracuse
John Wooden Joe B. Hall Denny Crum Roy Danforth

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school
(*=non-Div I)		 Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1975 All 4 2 1
1 Ed Jucker, Rollins* 15 3   11-1 .917 1963 3 3 2
2 John Wooden, UCLA 29 16 5-0 47-10 .825 1975 12 10 10
3 Fred Taylor, Ohio State 17 5   14-4 .778 1971 4 3 1
4 George Ireland, Loyola-Chicago 24 4   7-3 .700 1968 1 1 1
5 Don Haskins, UTEP 14 6 0-1 9-5 .643 1975 1 1 1
6 Frank McGuire, South Carolina 25 8   14-8 .636 1974 2 2 1
7 Dean Smith, North Carolina 14 5 2-1 12-7 .632 1975 4 1 0
8 Al McGuire, Marquette 18 7 0-1 13-8 .619 1975 1 1 0
9 Jack Kraft, Rhode Island 14 6   11-7 .611 1972 1 1 0
10 Jerry Tarkanian, Long Beach State 7 5 2-1 9-6 .600 1975 0 0 0
11 Lefty Driesell, Maryland 15 5 2-1 8-6 .571 1975 0 0 0
12 Denny Crum, Louisville 4 3 4-1 6-5 .545 1975 2 0 0
13 Guy Lewis, Houston 19 9   14-13 .519 1973 2 0 0
T14 Don Donoher, Dayton 11 6   8-8 .500 1974 1 1 0
T14 Lou Henson, New Mexico State 13 6 0-1 7-7 .500 1975 1 0 0
T14 Fred Schaus, Purdue 9 6   6-6 .500 1960 1 1 0
T17 Abe Lemons, Texas-Pan American 20 7   7-8 .467 1973 0 0 0
T17 Ned Wulk, Arizona State 24 7 2-1 7-8 .467 1975 0 0 0
19 Ted Owens, Kansas 11 5 0-1 6-7 .462 1975 2 0 0
20 Joe Williams, Furman 11 5 0-1 5-6 .455 1975 1 1 0
21 Tex Winter, Northwestern 22 6   7-9 .438 1968 2 0 0
22 Ray Meyer, DePaul 33 6   6-9 .400 1965 1 0 0


Highlights:

With Bill Walton now gone, UCLA still manages to win one last title in John Wooden's final season.  Wooden finishes with ten tournament championships, a record that appears unbreakable.
Denny Crum, a former assistant of John Wooden, guides Louisville to the Final Four for the second time and debuts on the list at .545.
North Carolina wins two games, improving Dean Smith's record to .632.
Don Haskins, who led UTEP to the championship in 1966, brings UTEP back to the tournament for the first time since 1970, but the first round loss drops his record to .643.
Marquette's first round loss drops Al McGuire's record to .619, good enough for eighth place.
Jerry Tarkanian returns to the tournament with his new UNLV team, winning two games and improving his record to .600.
Lefty Driesell and Maryland manage to win two games, improving Driesell's record to .571.
First round losses for Furman and Kansas drop Joe Williams and Ted Owens under .500. They join Tex Winter and Ray Meyer as coaches with Final Four experience and losing records.
Arizona State wins two games, improving Ned Wulk's record to .467, moving him a bit further from last place.
This year, the tournament is expanded to 32 teams (there are no bye's) and invites up to two teams per conference to play.





















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