1985      1986      1987

Champion Second Place Third place (tied) Third place (tied)
Louisville Duke Kansas LSU
Denny Crum Mike Krzyzewski Larry Brown Dale Brown

Active coaches (10+ games)

Rank Coach, Current school Yrs W-L Pct. Latest Final
All Trn 1986 All 4 2 1
1 Lee Rose, South Florida 19 2   8-3 .727 1980 2 0 0
2 Bob Knight, Indiana 21 10 0-1 21-8 .724 1986 3 2 2
3 Jim Valvano, North Carolina State 15 6 3-1 13-5 .722 1986 1 1 1
4 Rollie Massimino, Villanova 15 8 1-1 16-7 .696 1986 1 1 1
5 Denny Crum, Louisville 15 12 6-0 27-12 .692 1986 6 2 2
6 Larry Brown, Kansas 5 5 4-1 11-5 .688 1986 2 1 0
T7 John Thompson, Georgetown 14 10 1-1 18-9 .667 1986 3 3 1
T7 Jud Heathcote, Michigan State 15 5 2-1 10-5 .667 1986 1 1 1
9 Dean Smith, North Carolina 25 16 2-1 33-17 .660 1986 7 4 1
10 Dana Kirk, Memphis State 15 5 1-1 9-5 .643 1986 1 0 0
11 Hugh Durham, Georgia 20 5   8-5 .615 1985 2 1 0
12 Jerry Tarkanian, UNLV 18 11 2-1 19-12 .613 1986 1 0 0
T13 Terry Holland, Virginia 17 7 0-1 11-7 .611 1986 2 0 0
T13 Jack Hartman, Kansas State 24 7   11-7 .611 1982 0 0 0
15 Gene Bartow, Ala.-Birmingham 24 9 1-1 14-9 .609 1986 2 1 0
16 Johnny Orr, Iowa State 21 6 2-1 9-6 .600 1986 1 1 0
17 Guy Lewis, Houston 30 14   26-18 .591 1984 5 2 0
18 Dale Brown, LSU 14 6 4-1 10-7 .588 1986 2 0 0
19 Butch van Breda Kolff, Lafayette 20 4   7-5 .583 1967 1 0 0
20 Eddie Sutton, Kentucky 17 11 3-1 15-11 .577 1986 1 0 0
21 Billy Tubbs, Oklahoma 12 6 1-1 8-6 .571 1986 0 0 0
T22 Don Haskins, UTEP 25 9 0-1 10-8 .556 1986 1 1 1
T22 Lefty Driesell, Maryland 26 11 1-1 15-12 .556 1986 0 0 0
24 Don Donoher, Dayton 22 8   11-10 .524 1985 1 1 0
25 Lou Henson, Illinois 24 11 1-1 13-12 .520 1986 1 0 0
26 Digger Phelps, Notre Dame 16 11 0-1 14-13 .519 1986 1 0 0
T27 Tom Young, Old Dominion 26 5 1-1 6-6 .500 1986 1 0 0
T27 Jerry Pimm, UC Santa Barbara 12 5   5-5 .500 1983 0 0 0
T27 Wimp Sanderson, Alabama 6 5 2-1 5-5 .500 1986 0 0 0
30 Ted Owens, Oral Roberts 20 7   8-9 .471 1981 2 0 0
T31 Jim Boeheim, Syracuse 10 8 1-1 7-8 .467 1986 0 0 0
T31 Lute Olson, Arizona 13 7 0-1 7-8 .467 1986 1 0 0
33 Don DeVoe, Tennessee 15 6   5-6 .455 1983 0 0 0
34 Lou Carnesecca, St. John's 18 13 1-1 12-15 .444 1986 1 0 0
35 Joe Williams, Florida State 22 7   6-8 .429 1980 1 1 0
36 Norm Stewart, Missouri 25 7 0-1 5-7 .417 1986 0 0 0
37 J. D. Barnett, Tulsa 11 6 0-1 4-6 .400 1986 0 0 0
38 LaDell Andersen, Brigham Young 13 6   5-8 .385 1984 0 0 0
39 Gale Catlett, West Virginia 14 7 0-1 4-7 .364 1986 0 0 0
40 Ralph Miller, Oregon State 35 8   5-9 .357 1985 0 0 0


Highlights:

Denny Crum leads Louisville to the title for the second time this decade (the previous being 1980), improving his record to .692 and moving him up to fifth place.  Crum joins Bobby Knight as the only active coaches with two tournament championships and is second only to Dean Smith in number of Final Four trips amoung active coaches with six.
Indiana's first round loss drops Bobby Knight down to .724, and for the first time since 1981 (when Knight won his last championship) he is not in first place.  Knight drops to second place behind Lee Rose, who is now in his last season at South Florida and has not been to the tournament since 1980 when he led Purdue to national third place.  Rose's only other tournament appearance was a national fourth place finish with UNC-Charlotte in 1977, making him one of the few coaches to go to the Final Four every time he was invited and the only coach to do it (with more than one appearance) since Ed Jucker, who took Cincinnati three times in three tries from 1961-1963.
Kansas returns to the Final Four for the first time since 1974 improving Larry Brown's record to .688, moving him up to sixth place.
Dale Brown leads Louisiana State to the Final Four for the second time for him ('81) and the third time for LSU ('53), improving his record to .588.
North Carolina State wins three again this year improving Jim Valvano's record to .722 good for third place.
Eddie Sutton takes his third team (Kentucky) to the tournament, winning three and moving into the top twenty at .577.  Sutton has also taken Creighton and Arkansas to the tournament, winning national third place with Arkansas in 1978.
Wimp Sanderson debuts on the list at .500 as Alabama wins two games.
Tulsa's first round loss is enough to put J. D. Barnett on the list for the first time at .400.  Barnett previously coached Virginia Commonwealth to tournament berths.





















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