Coaches Who Won The Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament

1939-1959

  • 1939  Howard Hobson
  • 1940  Branch McCracken
  • 1941  Bud Foster
  • 1942  Everett Dean
  • 1943  Everett Shelton
  • 1944  Vadal Peterson
  • 1945  Henry Iba
  • 1946  Henry Iba
  • 1947  Alvin Julian
  • 1948  Adolph Rupp
  • 1949  Adolph Rupp
  • 1950  Nat Holman
  • 1951  Adolph Rupp
  • 1952  Forrest Allen
  • 1953  Branch McCracken
  • 1954  Kenneth Loeffler
  • 1955  Phil Woolpert
  • 1956  Phil Woolpert
  • 1957  Frank McGuire
  • 1958  Adolph Rupp
  • 1959  Pete Newell

Winning three men’s NCAA championships in three years has never happened outside of the late 1960’s / early 1970’s.