Since returning to the College Park campus in 1989, Gary Williams (Maryland '68) has led his alma mater's basketball program from a period of troubled times to an era of national prominence. With 12 NCAA Tournament berths in the last 15 seasons, seven Sweet Sixteen appearances, a pair of consecutive Final Four showings, and the 2002 national championship - the first of its kind in Maryland basketball history - Williams and his staff have literally forged what is now more than a decade of dominance in college basketball's most storied and competitive conference.
Now, with 397 victories as Maryland's head coach, Williams stands as the Terrapins all-time winningest head basketball coach. He passed Charles "Lefty" Driesell, who amassed 348 victories in 18 seasons from 1969 to 1986. The Terrapins have averaged 22.7 wins per year since the 1994-95 season.
With 604 career victories in 30 seasons overall, Williams is the seventh-winningest active head coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball. The rise of the Maryland program has run parallel with Williams' ascent among the most notable in the collegiate coaching fraternity. Williams was one of only five coaches to boast a string of 11 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament from 1994-2004. He has produced more at least 20 wins in nine of his last 12 seasons, and a school-record eight straight from 1996-97 to 2003-04. With 16 career 20-win seasons, Williams ranks seventh among active coaches.
Williams has been heavily involved in the NABC's Coaches vs. Cancer efforts. The program is a partnership between the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the American Cancer Society. Williams will serve as President of the National Coaches vs. Cancer for 2008-09. He was the recipient of the organization's Inspiration award for 2008 and was the 2005 Champion Award winner.
In June of 2005, Williams received the University of Maryland's highest alumni honor as he, Connie Chung, Renaldo Nehemiah and others were inducted into the University of Maryland's Alumni Hall of Fame. Williams was inducted into the University of Maryland's Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
In January of 2005, Williams was named one of Washingtonian Magazine's `Washingtonians of the Year.' He joined others such as Washington D.C. mayor Anthony Williams and Tim Russert of NBC's Meet The Press on the prestigious list.
In September of 2004, Williams joined Washington Redskins great Darrell Green and Washington Sports and Entertainment Chairman and CEO Abe Pollin as the inaugural inductees into the new Greater Washington Sports Hall of Champions.
Williams was one of only five coaches in NCAA Division I to have led his team to 11 consecutive NCAA Tournaments, from 1994-2004. The Terrapins' 2008 appearance in the NIT marked the 15th consecutive postseason berth for Williams' teams.
In guiding his 2004 Terrapins to the ACC Tournament title, Williams became the third coach in league history to lead his team to victory over the top three seeds: No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 2 NC State and No. 1 Duke. By overcoming a 21-point first half deficit against the Wolfpack, Williams engineered the greatest comeback in the 55-year history of the ACC Tournament.
He is one of seven college basketball coaches since 1980 to guide his alma mater to the Final Four and was the first since 1974 to lead his alma mater to a national title.
A winner of nearly 70 percent of his NCAA Tournament games while at Maryland, he ranks ninth among active coaches in NCAA Tournament winning percentage overall (27-14, .659), and eighth in wins (27).
With his 500th win at NC State on March 2, 2003, the 1968 Maryland grad became the sixth ACC alumnus in conference history to amass as many as 500 coaching victories.
With a victory over No. 1 North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Jan. 19, 2008, he is the winningest coach in the nation against top-ranked opponents (7).
With 397 wins as Maryland's head coach, Williams is only the sixth mentor in Atlantic Coast Conference history to pass the 300-victory milestone.
With 165 career ACC victories as Maryland's coach, Williams ranks as the third-winningest ACC coach in terms of conference victories. Only Dean Smith (364, North Carolina) and Mike Krzyzewski (264, Duke) have more conference wins.
National Prominence
For Williams, now in his 20th season, the accomplishments of the past 15 years have been particularly sweet for a coach whose roots with the program extend to his playing days in the late 1960s, and whose earliest seasons as head coach were tormented by NCAA sanctions he inherited. The two-time Final Four architect and ACC championship mentor is himself a Maryland alumnus, who found glory for a program whose history is filled with a myriad of some of the most prominent names in college basketball annals: Shue, Lucas, Elmore, McMillen, Albert King, Bias, Buck Williams and Walt Williams.
Guiding his Maryland team to the 2004 ACC title remains a poignant source of pride for Williams and all of the Terrapin faithful. Coaching the most youth-filled team in college basketball to an incredible weekend of success, in a year where the ACC was rated the nation's most competitive conference, is not an accomplishment soon to be forgotten by Maryland's fans or the coach himself. The weekend featured three hard-fought, instant-classic contests. In the end, the Terrapins emerged victorious, with their first tournament title since 1984 and only the third in the storied history of the Maryland program. In only three days - three days that were the result of a season's worth of determination, diligence and lessons learned - the Terps were transformed from a team teetering on the edge of the NCAA bubble to a No. 4 seed in the national tournament.
The excitement of the 2004 ACC Tournament conjured images of the Terrapins' NCAA title run only two years earlier. Williams followed a remarkable 2001 Final Four season by compiling the most wins in Maryland history, going 32-4 in 2002. He engineered the school's best regular season ever (25-3), its first outright ACC regular season title since 1980, its first No. 1 seed in an NCAA Tournament, and a return to the Final Four. He earned billing as the league's coach of the year for the first time in his career and later was honored with various national awards, the Victor Award and the New York Athletic Club's Winged Foot Award as the coach of the national champions.
Capping his personal ascent to college basketball's highest pinnacle, Williams added author to his resume in summer 2002 by completing an autobiography entitled "Sweet Redemption", with award-winning journalist David Vise. The book captures the essence of Williams' arrival at Maryland, the Terps' rebuilding efforts, their return to the NCAA Tournament in 1994 and their tournament climb ever since.
The rise of the Maryland program has run parallel with Williams' ascent among the most notable in the collegiate coaching fraternity. Williams was one of only five coaches to boast a string of 11 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament from 1994-2004. He has produced more than 20 wins in 10 of his last 14 seasons, and a school-record eight straight from 1996-97 to 2003-04. Williams' 16 career 20-win seasons places him eighth among active coaches.
Williams, 397-215 at Maryland, boasts a 604-343 overall record including four years at American (1979-82), four at Boston College (1983-86) and three at Ohio State (1987-89). In 30 seasons as a Division I head coach, Williams has coached in 15 NCAA Tournaments and guided nine different teams to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. One of 26 coaches ever to take three different schools to the NCAA Tournament, Williams has guided teams to the NIT or NCAA Tournament at each of his four coaching stops.
During his run of 11 straight NCAA Tournaments at Maryland, he forged his way to becoming the winningest NCAA Tournament coach in Maryland history with 23 wins and 11 losses - nearly 70 percent. He boasts a 27-14 NCAA Tournament record overall, and has carried Maryland to the Sweet Sixteen in five of the past 11 years.
Terp Alumnus
Williams is one of just two 600-win coaches who now engineer the programs at their respective alma maters, joining Jim Boeheim at Syracuse. With Roy Williams of North Carolina, those three also are the only active coaches to direct their alma maters to multiple Final Four appearances.
In 2001, Williams became just the sixth coach since 1980 to direct his alma mater to the Final Four. A year later, he became the first coach since 1974 to guide his alma mater to a national title. Williams is the only active coach to take his alma mater to consecutive Final Four appearances. He is only the eighth mentor ever to guide his alma mater to consecutive Final Fours, and the first since Houston's Guy Lewis in 1982, 1983 and 1984.
A former Terrapin point guard and 1968 graduate, Williams was a starter under coach Bud Millikan during the 1965, 1966 and 1967 seasons. He was the team captain as a senior and still lists one of his most memorable basketball moments as his experience as a spectator at the 1966 national championship game conducted at Maryland's legendary Cole Field House, between Texas Western and Kentucky.
The former Terrapin student-athlete is also noted as one of just eight former ACC basketball players ever to return to the league as a head coach. On March 2, 2003, Williams became the sixth ACC alumnus to win at least 500 games as Drew Nicholas nailed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to down NC State, 68-65. With 397 wins as Maryland's head coach, Williams is only the sixth ACC coach to reach the 300 milestone.
Williams Era
Inducted into the University of Maryland Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 and the University's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2005, Williams has placed his alma mater's program back among the elite in the always-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference. The Terps have become synonymous with Duke and North Carolina among the league's most dominant programs, and nationally have become a fixture among weekly polls.
Another success story during the Williams Era at Maryland was the coveted home-court win streak over non-conference foes, which spanned more than 12 years and 87 games. Maryland did not lose a non-league home game under Williams for well over a decade after just his fourth home game as head coach: Dec. 12, 1989 vs. Coppin State. The Terps went undefeated against non-conference foes during the final 12 years of competition at Cole Field House, and ran the record to 87 games before a five-point loss to No. 14 Florida on Dec. 14, 2002 at Comcast Center.
The decade of the 1990s was certainly a decade of resurgence for the Maryland basketball team.
Since Williams' arrival as head coach in the summer of 1989, the Terps have soared to a level of national prominence unmatched during the first century of the program - and unmatched by the vast majority of programs nationwide. Included among the many superior accomplishments during the Williams Era are: a school-record 11 straight NCAA Tournament appearances (1994-04) which included consecutive trips to the Final Four, a national crown and seven Sweet Sixteen appearances; the 2004 ACC title; 11 consecutive upper-division finishes in the ACC including runner-up distinction in 1999, 2000 and 2003; an outright regular season ACC title in 2002 and a shared one in 1995; a school-record 28 victories during the 1999 season which was shattered again with 32 in 2002; four NBA lottery picks, one national Player of the Year, a senior of the year and two ACC Players of the Year; an ACC Tournament MVP; and the first recipient of the nation's Senior CLASS Award.
Added for good measure are a NBA Co-Rookie of the Year in Steve Francis (2000), and a preseason top-five ranking three times in four seasons (1999-2002). The result is a program and a coach who have reached icon status.
Williams is the only head coach in school history to guide the Terps to 15 postseason tournament appearances. After guiding his first two Maryland teams to winning records and overcoming an NCAA probationary period resulting from the previous regime, he guided the Terps to an NCAA Tournament appearance in just his fifth season, 1994, and earned a share of the ACC regular-season title in just his sixth, 1995.
Williams' past 15 seasons have brought Maryland from striving for contention in the Atlantic Coast Conference to the realization of the tournament title in 2004; from endeavors to become nationally competitive to the reality of 12 NCAA berths, seven Sweet Sixteen appearances, two Final Fours and of course, the 2002 NCAA championship.
In 2003, Williams took a group of experienced but mostly untested Terps to a third-straight Sweet Sixteen. Along the way, the squad earned its fourth final Top 10 ranking in five seasons, posted a seventh-straight 20-win season, recorded a school-record sixth straight finish in the upper echelon of the ACC by capturing second place, and posted a school-record sixth straight season of double-digit ACC victories. The Terrapins helped Williams to his 600th career coaching victory at Boston College on February 6, 2008.
The 2002 championship itself was a product of maturity and steadfast dedication to a common goal - and included a magical ride through the final season of play at venerable Cole Field House. Williams molded a cast of seven returning players from its national semifinalists of 2001, while senior captains Lonny Baxter, Juan Dixon and Byron Mouton keyed a consistent effort from the beginning of practice in October, through an undefeated (15-0) home campaign at Cole, all the way to a net-cutting evening at the Georgia Dome on April 1. The Terrapins overcame personal obstacles and handled the ACC's and the NCAA Tournament's stiffest challenges. After winning the ACC regular season crown with a 15-1 record, the Terps' ascent to the national championship game included successive victories over perennial powers Wisconsin, Kentucky, Connecticut and Kansas - and a 64-52 defeat of Indiana in the title game. Maryland won the first national title in school history, and earned its very first No. 1 ranking, after becoming the first team in NCAA history to reach the championship game by defeating the highest possible seed in every round.
A year earlier, the Terrapins began the season with a lofty No. 5 ranking by the Associated Press and finished with the No. 4 spot by USA Today/ESPN. The Terps butted heads weekly during an ACC schedule that included five nationally ranked teams, but found their stride late in the year to win 10 of their last 12 games. Of those 10, seven nationally ranked foes fell in the Terps' path to the Final Four, with their only losses coming to eventual NCAA and ACC champion Duke. Local rival Georgetown was dispatched in the Sweet Sixteen, and an 87-73 win over No. 2-ranked and top-seeded Stanford earned Maryland its first NCAA regional title.
The 2000 season may have been one of Williams' greatest coaching accomplishments ever - guiding a "rebuilding" Terrapin team to 25 wins, a second straight second-place finish in the ACC and its first trip to the conference tournament final since 1984. All with a freshman point guard (Steve Blake), three first-year starters (Baxter, Blake, Dixon) and only one senior following the loss of three players to the NBA draft. Two years later, those three first-year starters would become seasoned veterans and national champions.
Four years after tying for his first ACC regular season championship in 1995, Williams led Maryland to a then school-record 28 victories and a school-record 13 ACC victories during the 1999 season. The Terps finished the season ranked No. 5 by the Associated Press - then the highest final ranking since 1975 and only the third time in school history that the program had earned a top five final national ranking. Maryland peaked at No. 2 as it won its first 10 games of the season, and its No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament matched the highest tournament seed in school history.
Williams has been voted as a national coach of the year finalist five times, including his selection in 2002 as the national coach of the year by Basketball America and CBSSportsline.com, and in 2001 by Playboy. Besides the ACC coaching honor, other accolades after the 2002 championship season included the Winged Foot Award as presented by the N.Y. Athletic Club; the Victor Award as presented by the National Academy of Sports Editors; the Harry Litwack Award as Eastern Coach of the Year, presented annually by the Herb Good Club of Philadelphia; and Seaboard Region Coach of the Year honors as named by Basketball Times and Eastern Basketball. In 1998, ACC Athlete Magazine voted him as the ACC Coach of the Year. He received the same honor from College Hoops Illustrated in 2000. Following Maryland's 1997 season, when the Terps advanced to the NCAA Tournament and finished with a 9-7 record in the ACC, he was named as the Seaboard Region Coach of the Year by Basketball Times and Eastern Basketball. He was honored as the district coach of the year in 1981, and in 1983 he was named as the Eastern Coach of the Year.
Williams has cemented his legacy as one of America's greatest recruiters and college coaches -- a statement backed not just by consecutive Final Four appearances or 25 winning records in 30 seasons, but by 29 NBA draft choices and the numerous former assistant coaches who now guide their own programs. Williams has mentored seven first-round selections and six NBA lottery picks: Walt Williams (#7 pick, 1992), Joe Smith (#1, 1995), Steve Francis (#2, 1999) and Chris Wilcox (#8, 2002); and Ohio State standouts Jim Jackson (#5, 1992) and Dennis Hopson (#3, 1987). Two-time European player of the year Sarunas Jasikevicius played for four years under Williams and starred in Europe before signing with the Indiana Pacers in the summer of 2005.
Williams was hired on June 13, 1989. He inherited a team that had won only nine games the year before and finished in last place in the ACC. Displaying his coaching abilities immediately, he helped the Terps to 19 wins while advancing to the second round of the National Invitation Tournament - and making him the first coach in school history to lead a team into the postseason in his first year. In addition, Maryland's 10-game improvement in the win column during Williams' first season was the largest in school history and second largest in the annals of the ACC by a first-year coach. Only the legendary Press Maravich, who improved NC State's winning ledger by 13 games in his inaugural season (1965), can boast a higher first-year improvement in the win column.
A 1968 graduate of Maryland, Williams lettered as the Terps' starting point guard from 1965-67 under head coach Bud Millikan, serving as team captain during his senior season. It was as a player in the ACC that Williams began developing his basketball philosophy. Playing beside three-year teammates Joe Harrington and Jay McMillen, he studied the game under Millikan, and it was then that he developed his penchant for the full-court pressure defenses for which his teams are now known. He learned his half court man-to-man defense from Millikan, who learned from the legendary Hank Iba. The fast-breaking offense that Williams' teams employ is similar to the style Vic Bubas' Duke teams used when Williams was a player.
Path Back To College Park
Williams began his coaching career alongside Harrington as graduate students at Maryland under freshman coach Tom Davis. The 1969 freshman team finished with a 12-4 record as Williams bonded with Davis in a relationship that would serve him well as his coaching career progressed.
After earning a degree in business, he continued his coaching career as an assistant at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, N.J. After one year, he took over as the head coach and guided his first team to a perfect 27-0 record and the state title. Williams has called that season "the ultimate -- there wasn't another game to win." Upon winning the NCAA West Region championship in 2001, he fondly recalled his championship at Camden as the "only other time I've ever got to cut down a net."
Williams spent one more year at Woodrow Wilson before accepting an invitation from Davis in 1972 to become an assistant at Lafayette College. While an assistant at Lafayette, Williams also served as the head soccer coach. In 1978, Williams accompanied Davis to Boston College. After one year there, Williams became the head coach at American University.
Williams immediately began making his mark. His 1981 squad set the still-standing school record for victories with a 24-6 mark, won the East Coast Conference championship, and played in the NIT. Williams was named the district coach of the year. American returned to postseason play the next season as the Williams-led Eagles went 21-9 and played in the NIT for the second consecutive year. Only once prior to Williams' arrival had AU attended a postseason tournament, and the Eagles have not returned since. Williams' four-year record at AU was 72-42.
In 1983, Williams succeeded Davis at Boston College. He was once again an instant success, posting a 25-7 record and leading the Eagles to the regular-season championship of the Big East in his first season. Making his first appearance in the NCAA Tournament, Williams directed the Eagles to the Sweet 16. He finished third in the balloting for national coach of the year, and was honored again as the Eastern Coach of the Year by his peers. He went on to duplicate that NCAA Tournament success again in 1985, leading B.C. back to the Sweet Sixteen.
In 1987, Williams accepted the head coaching job at Ohio State, becoming the 10th basketball coach in that school's illustrious history. He succeeded Eldon Miller and once again enjoyed success. In three years, the Buckeyes made three postseason appearances. His first squad defeated then-No. 1 and unbeaten Iowa (coached by Tom Davis) in the regular season, in what would be the first of many giant-killings. During Williams' three-year term at Ohio State, OSU defeated a second-ranked Purdue team, perennial power Kansas and highly regarded Big Ten powers Michigan and Illinois. Each of Williams' three Ohio State teams advanced to postseason play, and he laid the groundwork for the highly successful teams that followed when he left Columbus for College Park.
Williams' recent charity work has benefited:
Coaches vs. Cancer
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
National Autism Research
National Physical Education Council
The Salvation Army
The Babe Ruth Museum
The Gary Williams File
Year-By-Year Head Coaching Record
Overall
Conference
Year
School
W
L
Pct.
W
L
Pct.
Finish
NCAA Tournament Participation
1978-79
American
14
13
.519
7
4
.636
4th
1979-80
American
13
14
.481
5
6
.455
5th
1980-81
American
24
6
.800
11
0
1.000
1st
1981-82
American
21
9
.700
8
3
.727
3rd
1982-83
Boston Coll.
25
7
.781
12
4
.750
T-1st
NCAA West Region Semifinals (1-1)
1983-84
Boston Coll.
18
12
.600
8
8
.500
4th
1984-85
Boston Coll.
20
11
.645
7
9
.438
6th
NCAA Midwest Region Semifinals (2-1)
1985-86
Boston Coll.
13
15
.464
4
12
.250
7th
1986-87
Ohio State
20
13
.606
9
9
.500
6th
NCAA Southeast Region Second Round (1-1)
1987-88
Ohio State
20
13
.606
9
9
.500
6th
1988-89
Ohio State
19
15
.559
6
12
.333
8th
1989-90
Maryland
19
14
.576
6
8
.429
T-5th
1990-91
Maryland
16
12
.571
5
9
.357
7th
1991-92
Maryland
14
15
.483
5
11
.313
8th
1992-93
Maryland
12
16
.429
2
14
.125
8th
1993-94
Maryland
18
12
.600
8
8
.500
T-4th
NCAA Midwest Region Semifinals (2-1)
1994-95
Maryland
26
8
.765
12
4
.750
T-1st
NCAA West Region Semifinals (2-1)
1995-96
Maryland
17
13
.567
8
8
.500
T-4th
NCAA West Region First Round (0-1)
1996-97
Maryland
21
11
.656
9
7
.563
T-4th
NCAA Southeast Region First Round (0-1)
1997-98
Maryland
21
11
.656
10
6
.625
3rd
NCAA West Region Semifinals (2-1)
1998-99
Maryland
28
6
.824
13
3
.813
2nd
NCAA South Region Semifinals (2-1)
1999-00
Maryland
25
10
.714
11
5
.688
2nd
NCAA Midwest Region Second Round (1-1)
2000-01
Maryland
25
11
.694
10
6
.625
3rd
NCAA Final Four, West Region Champions (4-1)
2001-02
Maryland
32
4
.889
15
1
.938
1st
NCAA Final Four, NATIONAL CHAMPIONS (6-0)
2002-03
Maryland
21
10
.677
11
5
.688
T-2nd
NCAA South Region Semifinals (2-1)
2003-04
Maryland
20
12
.625
7
9
.438
6th
NCAA Denver Regional Second Round (1-1)
2004-05
Maryland
19
13
.594
7
9
.438
T-6th
2005-06
Maryland
19
13
.594
8
8
.500
6th
2006-07
Maryland
25
9
.735
10
6
.625
T-2nd
NCAA Midwest Second Round (1-1)
2007-08
Maryland
19
15
.559
8
8
.500
T-5th
4 Years
American
72
42
.632
31
13
.705
4 Years
Boston Coll.
76
45
.628
31
33
.484
NCAA - 3-2
3 Years
Ohio State
59
41
.590
24
30
.444
NCAA - 1-1
19 Years
Maryland
397
215
.649
165
136
.548
NCAA - 23-11 (.676)
30 Years
Overall
604
343
.638
251
212
.542
NCAA - 27-14 (.659)
Coaching Honors
Naismith National Coach of the Year Finalist, 1995, 1997, 2002
National Coach of the Year, 2002 (Basketball America, CBSSportsline.com)
Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, 2002
Victor Award, 2002 (National Academy of Sports Editors)
Winged Foot Award, 2002 (N.Y. Athletic Club)
Harry Litwack Eastern Coach of the Year Award, 2002 (Herb Good Basketball Club of Philadelphia)
District Coach of the Year, 2002 (Basketball Times)
Seaboard Region Coach of the Year, 1997, 2002 (Basketball Times & Eastern Basketball)
National Coach of the Year, 2001 (Playboy)
Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, 2000 (College Hoops Illustrated)
Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, 1998 (ACC Athlete Magazine)
U.S. Olympic Team Selection Committee, 1988
Eastern Coach of the Year, 1983
National Coach of the Year, second runner-up, 1983
District Coach of the Year, 1981
International Experience
Five-game, 12-day tour of Italy with Maryland basketball team in August of 2004
Six-game, nine-day tour of France with Maryland basketball team in August of 1994
Six-game, nine-day tour of Germany with ACC All-Star Team in July of 1990
Eight-game, 12-day tour of Yugoslavia with Big East All-Star Team in July of 1984
Playing Experience
1965-67, University of Maryland, basketball letterwinner
1964, University of Maryland, freshman basketball team
1961-64, Collingswood High School, lettered four years in basketball and baseball
Playing Honors
Maryland team captain, 1967
Maryland field goal percentage record (1.000, 8-8) vs. South Carolina, 12-10-66
Member 1965 Sugar Bowl Tournament title team and 1966 Charlotte Invitational Tournament championship team
Personal Education: University of Maryland, 1968, B.S. in business; Collingswood (N.J.) High School, 1964
Date of Birth: March 4, 1945 in Collingswood, N.J.
Family: Daughter: Kristin Scott (34), Son-in-law: Geoff Scott, Grandchildren: David Geoffrey Scott (born Nov. 15, 1999), Lauren Kelly Scott and John William Scott (born June 19, 2003)
NCAA DIVISION I COACHING WINS, ACTIVE COACHES
1.
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
803
2.
Jim Calhoun, Connecticut
774
3.
Jim Boeheim, Syracuse
771
4.
Bob Huggins, West Virginia
616
5.
Tom Penders, Houston
608
6.
Gary Williams, Maryland
604
7.
Homer Drew, Valparaiso
593
8.
Roy Williams, North Carolina
560
T9.
Ben Braun, California
556
T9.
Bo Ryan, Wisconsin
556
MOST 20-WIN SEASONS, ACTIVE COACHES
1.
Jim Boeheim, Syracuse
29
2.
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
24
3.
Jim Calhoun, Connecticut
22
4.
Bob Huggins, West Virginia
20
5.
Roy Williams, North Carolina
18
T6.
Gary Williams, Maryland
16
T6.
Rick Pitino, Louisville
16
T6.
Tom Izzo, Michigan State
16
CAREER NCAA TOURNAMENT WINS, ACTIVE COACHES
1.
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
69
2.
Roy Williams, North Carolina
49
3.
Jim Calhoun, Connecticut
41
4.
Jim Boeheim, Syracuse
40
5.
Rick Pitino, Louisville
35
6.
Tubby Smith, Minnesota
29
8.
Gary Williams, Maryland
27
9.
Tom Izzo, Michigan State
25
CAREER WINS - ALL GAMES, WHILE AT ACC SCHOOL
1.
Dean Smith, North Carolina
879
2.
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
730
3.
Gary Williams, Maryland
397
4.
Bobby Cremins, Georgia Tech
354
5.
Lefty Driesell, Maryland
348
6.
Terry Holland, Virginia
326
7.
Norm Sloan, NC State
266
8.
Frank McGuire, UNC & USC
264
9.
Dave Odom, Wake Forest
240
10.
Carl Tacy, Wake Forest
222
CAREER WINS - ACC GAMES
1.
Dean Smith, North Carolina
364
2.
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
285
3.
Gary Williams, Maryland
165
4.
Frank McGuire, UNC & USC
142
5.
Bobby Cremins, Georgia Tech
134
6.
Lefty Driesell, Maryland
122
7.
Terry Holland, Virginia
111
8.
Vic Bubas, Duke
106
9.
Norm Sloan, NC State
103
10.
Dave Odom, Wake Forest
101
*prior to 2008-09 season
Coaches Guiding Their Alma Maters To National Championships
Phog Allen, Kansas
1952
Jim Boeheim, Syracuse
2003
Bud Foster, Wisconsin
1941
Howard Hobson, Oregon
1939
Ed Jucker, Cincinnati
1961, 1962
Branch McCracken, Indiana
1940, 1953
Vadal Peterson, Utah
1944
Norm Sloan, NC State
1974
Fred Taylor, Ohio State
1960
Gary Williams, Maryland
2002
Roy Williams, North Carolina
2005
Coaches Guiding Their Alma Maters To The Final Four Since 1980
