Which coaches have a maximum of four appearances in the history of NCAA male tournament?

Best coaches in Men’s Faculty Basketball History has the same in common: numerous last four appearances.

Currently, some of the best coaches in sports have their teams in the last four men’s basketball tournament NCAA 2025, including Kelvin Sampson (Houston) and Bruce Pearl (Aburn), accompanied by a pair of potential stars in the emergence in coaching ranks in Jon Scheyer (Duke) and Todd Golden (Florida). Being in mind, which trainers in the history of sports did the most last weekend of the tournament?

Here are 10 coaches with the most important four appearances in the history of the NCAA tournament.

Note: Increased performances are not included. For example, Rick Pitino would have seven if they got involved in the performances.

10 coaches with the most beautiful four appearances in the history of NCAA for a male tournament

T-8. Guy Lewis: 5

Lewis is the most successful coach in Houston’s history, which boasts a program of a record 592 wins during his 30 years at the helm. This range was presented with 14 NCAA tournament appearances, but, more precisely, shooting in the last four five times, including the years of return (1967 and 1968) and then in three consecutive seasons (1982-84). In the second half of the 1960s, Houston boasted like Elvin Hayes and Ken Spain, and then among the other 1980s were Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler, among other things Nba Players.

T-8. Bob Knight: 5

Knight took over Indiana Hoosiers‘The 1971 men’s basketball program, and the rest is history. Winning the programming of 659 games during the 29-year-old part, Indiana made the finals four times five times, made the NCAA tournament in all except five seasons and won three national championships. Training characters Isiah Thomas, Scott May, Steve Alford and many others, Knight is a permanent picture of basketball in Indiana and did Hoosiers to one of the backlogs Big Ten Male basketball.

T-8. Lute Olson: 5

Everywhere Olson left, his team won and in a mix of state titles. After a season 24-2 in Long Beach state In 1973-74, Olson became the main coach in Iowa And, after the first four years, they helped Hawkeyeus make the NCAA tournament in five consecutive seasons and Final Four in the 1979-80 season. Olson then left ArizonaWhich is Final Four four times under him four times during his 24-year reign and won the 1997 national championship, the only title in the history of the program. This championship team presented more future NBA players, including Mike Bibby and Jason Terry.

T-8. Jim Boeheim: 5

The Syracuse Male Basketball Program has 2,109 victories of all time, and the head coach Jim Boeheim is responsible for 1,116 of those victories, which is far and far from the program. By taking over the main coach for the 1976-77 season, Boeheim sat on the throne at Syracuse for 43 years, and the school made NCAA tournament in season 31 of 43, reaching the last four five times and winning the 2003 national championship. Recently announced hall of celebrities Carmelo Anthony He helped lead the way for Syracuse in that year. After serving for eight years as an assistant coach for Orange under Roy Danfort, Boeheim, who played four seasons in Syracuse, spent his entire training career with Orange.

T-8. Rick Pitino: 5

In only his second season on Transparency (1986-87), the Pitino Friars reached the last four. Then, after a two -year training New York KnicksPitino went to Kentuckywho reached the last three times three times and won the 1996 national championship. Then, after a four -year stay with Boston CelticsPitino has become a major coach in Louisvillewho reached the last four three times and won the 2013 national championship. However, two of these four appearances and the title of 2013 left for NCAA investigation to relate to an alleged sex scandal that included the Louisville Male Basketball Program with recruits. All in all, Pitino trained Donovan MitchellAntoine Walker, Terry RozierRuss Smith and many other professionals.

T-6. Adolph Rupp: 6

When you train a team for 41 years, you get a lot of things. In the case of Rupp, Kentucky’s Home Arena, Rupp Arena, is named after him. She spent her training career in her entirety in Lexington (Season 1930-31 by the 1971-72 season, minus 1952-53), Wildcats won four national titles, made the last four six times, make the NCAA tournament 20 times and win 13 Sec Tournament titles. Rupp finished with a program record of 876 wins. Cliff Hagan, Louie Dampier, Frank Ramsey and Pat Riley were some of the countless players Rupp coached.

T-6. Denny Crum: 6

In CRM’s first season in Louisville (1971-72), the Cardinals reached the Final Four, which was a view of what would come, as Final Four would have made five more times under the main coach for over 30 years in position. Furthermore, Louisville won two national titles during this range, doing so in the 1979-80 season and the 1985-86 season. Darrell Griffith and Derek Smith helped Crum asking for the first title, and Billy Thompson and Pervis Ellison helped him win another.

5. Tom Izz: 8

Izo was an auxiliary coach in Michigan State 13 years he received a promotion to the main coach in 1995 and never looked back. Just ending her 30th season at work, Michigan State made a NCAA tournament in all complete seasons in all season, in addition to two seasons of 2019-20 (the 2019-20 season, she interrupted because of Pandemija Covid-19), she made the last four times eight times and won the 2000 national championship in the IZZ, which boasted for all by the 737 WINS program. Morris Peterson and Mateen Cleaves led the Spartans to the 2000 triumph, and Izo also coached Jason Richardson, Jaren Jackson Jr,, Zach Randolph and Draymond GreenAmong others, during his career.

4. Roy Williams: 9

Williams had an iconic trainer in both Kansas (15 seasons) i North Carolina (18 seasons). In Kansas, Williams missed the NCAA tournament once (his first season), won in a combined 418 games and made Final Four in four seasons. Then in North Carolina Williams won 485 games, made a big dance in all, except two seasons, reached the final four five times and won three national championships. Paul PierceKirk Hinrich, Harrison BarnesTy Lawson and Cameron Johnson are some of the players that Williams trained. Williams is the second among the coaches in North Carolina in victories, and a third among the coaches from Kansas.

3. Dean Smith: 11

Call him “Dean” North Carolina, while Smith helped the UNC to ask for two national championships, make NCAA tournament in seasons 27 of 36 and make the last four times. Furthermore, Alumni Tar Heels under Smith’s rival of any school with their coach, such as Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Bob McADoo, Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison and Jerry Stackhouse just some of the high players who will be held accountable for North Carolina between 1962 and 1998 Careful careers.

2. John Wooden: 12

John Wooden is synonymous for Ucla basketball. During their 27 seasons as the main coach of Bruins (the 1948-49 season until the 1974-75 season), they won 80.8% of their games (program-Record 620 victories for the main coach), had two-digit losses in just five seasons, reached NCAA’s turn 16 times, reached 12 and won 12. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Gail Goodrich, Jamaal Wilkes and Sidney Wicks are just some of the players who left the wooden era to Ucla.

1. Mike Krzyzewski: 13

Mike Krzyzewski is Duke of basketball. To the devil, a representation of the Blue Devils’ Mascute profile is basically Doppelgänger from Krzyzewski. Surely, that’s just a coincidence! Duke’s main coach for 42 seasons (1980-81 to 2021-22 season), Blue Devils won in a combined 1,129 games-Krizyzewski are 1.202 career victories (trained in Army Five seasons before he took his duty in Duke) is the most for the main coach in the history of basketball for men’s faculties – he made the tournament 36 times at the NCAA, he reached the last four 13 times and won the national championship under Krzyzewski five times. The list of future NBA stars playing in Duke under Krzyzewski is an endless but Grant Hill, Elton Brand, Kyrie Irving,, Jayson Tatum and Zion Williamson are among these players.

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