Frank McGuire
Alma Mater:
Class of:
1936
Hometown:
New York, NY
- Coached 11 years at St. Xavier H.S. (126-39)
- First coach to win more than 100 games for three colleges--St. John's (103), North Carolina (164) and South Carolina (283)
- Directed North Carolina to an undefeated record (32-0) en route to the 1957 NCAA Tournament title
- Led St. John's to back-to-back NIT third-place finishes in 1950 and 1951
- Named national coach of the year by UPI in 1957
- South Carolina's all-time winningest basketball coach
- Also served as head baseball coach at St. John's, where he took the Redmen to the 1949 College World Series
- Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976
- Guided North Carolina to 1957 ACC Tournament title and South Carolina to the 1971 ACC Tournament championship
- Compiled a 49-31 regular-season record (.613) for the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors in 1961-62
- Major-college career scoring average under Joe Lapchick (5.4 ppg)
- Final Top 20 Rankings (15: AP/UPI)--1950 (9), 1951 (9/9), 1952 (10/9), 1956 (13/11), 1957 (1/1), 1958 (13/12), 1959 (9/6), 1960 (NR/14), 1961 (5/6), 1969 (13/20), 1970 (6/6), 1971 (6/6), 1972 (6/5), 1973 (NR/16) and 1974 (19/16)
- All-Americans (12): St. John's Dick McGuire (1949) and Bob Zawoluk (1951 and 1952), North Carolina's Pete Brennan (1958), Tommy Kearns (1957 and 1958), York Larese (1959 through 1961), Doug Moe (1961), Lennie Rosenbluth (1956 and 1957) and Lee Shaffer (1959 and 1960) and South Carolina's Skip Harlicka (1968), Kevin Joyce (1973), Tom Riker (1972) and John Roche (1969 through 1971).
Record:
Season | School | Overall | League | Finish | Conference (Division) | Postseason (Record) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
12-11 | DNP | |||||
16-9 | NIT (0-1) | |||||
24-5 | NIT (2-1) | |||||
26-5 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
25-5 | NCAA (3-1) | |||||
17-10 | 15-6 | 8th | DNP | |||
11-10 | 5-6 | 5th | DNP | |||
10-11 | 8-6 | T-4th | DNP | |||
18-5 | 11-3 | T-1st | DNP | |||
32-0 | 14-0 | 1st | NCAA (5-0) | |||
19-7 | 10-4 | T-2nd | DNP | |||
20-5 | 12-2 | T-1st | NCAA (0-1) | |||
18-6 | 12-2 | T-1st | DNP | |||
19-4 | 12-2 | 1st | Probation | |||
6-17 | 2-12 | 8th | DNP | |||
11-13 | 4-10 | T-6th | DNP | |||
16-7 | 8-4 | 3rd | Probation | |||
15-7 | 9-5 | 4th | Probation | |||
21-7 | 11-3 | 2nd | NIT (1-1) | |||
25-3 | 14-0 | 1st | DNP | |||
23-6 | 10-4 | 2nd | NCAA (0-2) | |||
24-5 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
22-7 | NCAA (2-1) | |||||
22-5 | NCAA (0-1) | |||||
19-9 | NIT (1-1) | |||||
18-9 | DNP | |||||
14-12 | DNP | |||||
16-12 | DNP | |||||
15-12 | DNP | |||||
16-11 | DNP |
- 30-Year College Coaching Record: 550-235 (.701) overall
- 102-36 (.739) in five years at St. John's
- 164-58 (.739) in nine years at North Carolina
- 283-142 (.666) in 16 years at South Carolina
- 15-6 (.714) in southern Conference
- 142-63 (.693) in Atlantic Coast Conference (84-25, .771, at UNC
- 58-38, .604, at USC)
- 0-1 (.000) in southern Conference Tournament
- 17-12 (.586) in ACC Tournament (8-6, .571, at UNC
- 9-6, .600, at USC)
- 14-8 (.636) in NCAA Tournament
- 6-6 (.500) in NIT