List of NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four appearances by coach

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This is a list of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Regional Championships by coach. The current names of the NCAA Tournament regions are the East, Midwest, South, and West. The winners of the four regions are awarded an NCAA Regional Championship Trophy and advance in the Men's Division I basketball tournament to play in the Final Four.

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Final Four appearances by coach

NumberCoachYearsTeam(s)
13 Mike Krzyzewski 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2022 Duke
12 John Wooden 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 UCLA
11 Dean Smith 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997 North Carolina
9 Roy Williams 1991, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017 Kansas (4), North Carolina (5)
8 Tom Izzo 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2019 Michigan State
6 Denny Crum 1972, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1986 Louisville
6 Adolph Rupp 1942, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1966 Kentucky
5 Jim Boeheim 1987, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016 Syracuse
5 Bob Knight 1973, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992 Indiana
5 Guy Lewis 1967, 1968, 1982, 1983, 1984 Houston
5 Lute Olson 1980, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2001 Iowa (1), Arizona (4)
5 Rick Pitino 1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2012*, 2013* Providence (1), Kentucky (3), Louisville (3*)
4 Jim Calhoun 1999, 2004, 2009, 2011 UConn
4 John Calipari 1996*, 2008*, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 UMass (1*), Memphis (1*), Kentucky (4)
4 Billy Donovan 2000, 2006, 2007, 2014 Florida
4 Jack Gardner 1948, 1951, 1961, 1966 Kansas State (2), Utah (2)
4 Henry Iba 1945, 1946, 1949, 1951 Oklahoma State
4 Harold Olsen 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946 Ohio State
4 Bill Self 2008, 2012, 2018, 2022 Kansas
4 Jerry Tarkanian 1977, 1987, 1990, 1991 UNLV
4 Fred Taylor 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968Ohio State
4 Jay Wright 2009, 2016, 2018, 2022 Villanova
3 Phog Allen 1940, 1952, 1953Kansas
3 Forddy Anderson 1950, 1954, 1957 Bradley (2), Michigan State (1)
3 Vic Bubas 1963, 1964, 1966Duke
3 Harry Combes 1949, 1951, 1952 Illinois
3 Joe B. Hall 1975, 1978, 1984Kentucky
3 Ben Howland 2006, 2007, 2008UCLA
3 Ed Jucker 1961, 1962, 1963 Cincinnati
3 Nolan Richardson 1990, 1994, 1995 Arkansas
3 Eddie Sutton 1978, 1995, 2004Arkansas (1), Oklahoma State (2)
3 John Thompson 1982, 1984, 1985 Georgetown
3 Phil Woolpert 1955, 1956, 1957 San Francisco
2 Gene Bartow 1973, 1976Memphis (1), UCLA (1)
2 John Beilein 2013, 2018Michigan
2 Dale Brown 1981, 1986 LSU
2 Larry Brown 1980*, 1986, 1988UCLA (1*), Kansas (2)
2 Bruce Drake 1939, 1947 Oklahoma
2 Hugh Durham 1972, 1983 Florida State (1), Georgia (1)
2 Mark Few 2017, 2021 Gonzaga
2 Slats Gill 1949, 1963 Oregon State
2 Bill Guthridge 1998, 2000North Carolina
2 Bill Henderson 1948, 1950 Baylor
2 Lou Henson 1970, 1989 New Mexico State (1), Illinois (1)
2 Terry Holland 1981, 1984 Virginia
2 Nat Holman 1947, 1950 CCNY
2 Bob Huggins 1992, 2010Cincinnati (1), West Virginia (1)
2 Doggie Julian 1947, 1948 Holy Cross
2 Lon Kruger 1994, 2016Florida (1), Oklahoma (1)
2 Harry Litwack 1956, 1958 Temple
2 Ken Loeffler 1954, 1955 La Salle
2 Thad Matta 2007, 2012Ohio State
2 Branch McCracken 1940, 1953Indiana
2 Al McGuire 1974, 1977 Marquette
2 Frank McGuire 1952, 1957 St. John's (1), North Carolina (1)
2 Ray Meyer 1943, 1979 DePaul
2 Pete Newell 1959, 1960 California
2 Bucky O'Connor 1955, 1956Iowa
2 Ted Owens 1971, 1974Kansas
2 Lee Rose 1977, 1980 Charlotte (1), Purdue (1)
2 Bo Ryan 2014, 2015Wisconsin
2 Kelvin Sampson 2002, 2021Oklahoma (1), Houston (1)
2 George Smith 1959, 1960Cincinnati
2 Brad Stevens 2010, 2011 Butler
2 Dave Strack 1964, 1965 Michigan
2 Gary Williams 2001, 2002 Maryland
2 Tex Winter 1958, 1964Kansas State
1 Dana Altman 2017 Oregon
1 Rick Barnes 2003 Texas
1 Sam Barry 1940 USC
1 Chris Beard 2019 Texas Tech
1 Dick Bennett 2000 Wisconsin
1 Tony Bennett 2019Virginia
1 John Brady 2006LSU
1 Earl Brown 1944Dartmouth
1 Howard Cann 1945 NYU
1 P. J. Carlesimo 1989 Seton Hall
1 Doc Carlson 1941 Pittsburgh
1 Lou Carnesecca 1985St. John's
1 Ben Carnevale 1946North Carolina
1 Everett Case 1950 NC State
1 John Castellani 1958 Seattle
1 Osborne Cowles 1942 Dartmouth
1 Frosty Cox 1942 Colorado
1 Tom Crean 2003Marquette
1 Mick Cronin 2021UCLA
1 Bobby Cremins 1990 Georgia Tech
1 Roy Danforth 1975Syracuse
1 Chick Davies 1940 Duquesne
1 Hubert Davis 2022North Carolina
1 Mike Davis 2002Indiana
1 Everett Dean 1942Stanford
1 Don Donoher 1967 Dayton
1 Scott Drew 2021Baylor
1 Tippy Dye 1953 Washington
1 Bob Feerick 1952Santa Clara
1 Steve Fisher 1989, 1992*, 1993*Michigan
1 Bill Foster 1978Duke
1 Harold E. Foster 1941Wisconsin
1 Jack Friel 1941 Washington State
1 Dave Gavitt 1973Providence
1 Bully Gilstrap 1943Texas
1 Jack Gray 1947Texas
1 Elmer Gross 1954 Penn State
1 Dick Harp 1957Kansas
1 Jim Harrick 1995UCLA
1 Don Haskins 1966 UTEP
1 Doc Hayes 1956SMU
1 Jud Heathcote 1979Michigan State
1 Paul Hewitt 2004Georgia Tech
1 Bernard Hickman 1959Louisville
1 Howard Hobson 1939Oregon
1 Bill Hodges 1979 Indiana State
1 George Ireland 1963 Loyola Chicago
1 Maury John 1969 Drake
1 George King 1969Purdue
1 Eugene Lambert 1945Arkansas
1 Jim Larrañaga 2006 George Mason
1 Bebe Lee 1955Colorado
1 Rick Majerus 1998Utah
1 Gregg Marshall 2013 Wichita State
1 Frank Martin 2017 South Carolina
1 Rollie Massimino 1985Villanova
1 Bones McKinney 1962 Wake Forest
1 Louis Menze 1944 Iowa State
1 Mike Montgomery 1998Stanford
1 Porter Moser 2018Loyola Chicago
1 Kevin Ollie 2014UConn
1 Johnny Orr 1976Michigan
1 Bruce Pearl 2019 Auburn
1 Vadal Peterson 1944Utah
1 Digger Phelps 1978Notre Dame
1 Nibs Price 1946California
1 Harry Rabenhorst 1953LSU
1 Elmer Ripley 1943Georgetown
1 Glen Rose 1941Arkansas
1 Lou Rossini 1960NYU
1 Fred Schaus 1959West Virginia
1 Alexander Severance 1939Villanova
1 Everett Shelton 1943 Wyoming
1 Norm Sloan 1974NC State
1 Shaka Smart 2011 VCU
1 Tubby Smith 1998Kentucky
1 Gary Thompson 1965Wichita State
1 John Thompson III 2007Georgetown
1 Billy Tubbs 1988Oklahoma
1 Forrest Twogood 1954USC
1 Jim Valvano 1983NC State
1 Butch van Breda Kolff 1965Princeton
1 Bruce Weber 2005Illinois
1 Bob Weinhauer 1979 Penn
1 Larry Weise 1970 St. Bonaventure
1 Joe Williams 1970 Jacksonville
1 Richard Williams 1996 Mississippi State
1 Tom Young 1976Rutgers

Coaches whose only appearance has been vacated

CoachYearsProgram(s)
Clem Haskins 1997* Minnesota
Dana Kirk 1985*Memphis
Jack Kraft 1971*Villanova
Jim O’Brien 1999*Ohio State
John Oldham 1971* Western Kentucky
Jack Ramsay 1961* Saint Joseph’s

NCAA Division I Championships by coach

This is a list of NCAA men's basketball coaches who have won multiple championships. This list includes only championships since 1939 when the National Association of Basketball Coaches began the formal national championship tournament that would be taken over by the NCAA the following year.

NumberCoachYearsProgram(s)
10 John Wooden 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 UCLA
5 Mike Krzyzewski 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015 Duke
4 Adolph Rupp 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958 Kentucky
3 Bob Knight 1976, 1981, 1987 Indiana
3 Jim Calhoun 1999, 2004, 2011 UConn
3 Roy Williams 2005, 2009, 2017 North Carolina
2 Branch McCracken 1940, 1953 Indiana
2 Henry Iba 1945, 1946 Oklahoma State
2 Phil Woolpert 1955, 1956 San Francisco
2 Ed Jucker 1961, 1962 Cincinnati
2 Denny Crum 1980, 1986 Louisville
2 Dean Smith 1982, 1993 North Carolina
2 Billy Donovan 2006, 2007 Florida
2 Jay Wright 2016, 2018 Villanova
2 Bill Self 2008, 2022 Kansas

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