Al McGuire
Alma Mater:
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Hometown:
Brooklyn, NY
- Named national coach of the year by AP, UPI, and the USBWA in 1971, and by the NABC in 1974
- Coached Marquette to the NIT title in 1970 and the NCAA championship in 1977. His 1974 Marquette squad finished runner-up to North Carolina State in the NCAA Tournament and his 1967 team lost to southern Illinois in the NIT final
- Guided Marquette to nation's best record among more than 50 independent schools in 1971
- Marquette's all-time winningest coach
- Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991
- Assistant coach at Dartmouth under Doggie Julian
- Major-college career playing statistics under Frank McGuire (8.1 ppg, 57.9 FT%)
- Final Top 20 Rankings (10: AP/UPI)--1968 (NR/10), 1969 (14/14), 1970 (8/10), 1971 (2/2), 1972 (7/7), 1973 (5/4), 1974 (3/5), 1975 (11/6), 1976 (2/2) and 1977 (7/14)
- Major-College All-Americans (eight): Marquette's Jim Chones (1972), Bo Ellis (1975 through 1977), Butch Lee (1977), Maurice Lucas (1974), Dean Meminger (1970 and 1971), Earl Tatum (1976), George Thompson (1969) and Lloyd Walton (1976).
Record:
Season | School | Overall | League | Finish | Conference (Division) | Postseason (Record) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Belmont Abbey | 24-3 | |||||
Belmont Abbey | 21-2 | |||||
Belmont Abbey | 19-6 | |||||
Belmont Abbey | 17-7 | |||||
Belmont Abbey | 16-9 | NAIA (0-1) | ||||
Belmont Abbey | 6-19 | |||||
Belmont Abbey | 6-18 | |||||
8-18 | DNP | |||||
14-12 | DNP | |||||
21-9 | NIT (3-1) | |||||
23-6 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
24-5 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
26-3 | NIT (4-0) | |||||
28-1 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
25-4 | NCAA (1-2) | |||||
25-4 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
26-5 | NCAA (4-1) | |||||
23-4 | NCAA (0-1) | |||||
27-2 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
25-7 | NCAA (5-0) |