Pete Newell
Alma Mater:
Loyola (CA)
Class of:
Hometown:
Vancouver, British Columbia
- Guided California to back-to-back NCAA Final Four appearances in 1959 (1st) and 1960 (2nd)
- Named national coach of the year by UPI and the USBWA in 1960
- Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978
- Coach of gold medal-winning 1960 U.S. Olympic Team
- Led San Francisco to 1949 NIT title
- Final Top 20 Rankings (five: AP/UPI)--1949 (8), 1950 (12), 1957 (13/6), 1959 (11/9) and 1960 (2/1)
- All-Americans (three): San Francisco's Don Lofgran (1949 and 1950) and California's Larry Friend (1957) and Darrall Imhoff (1959 and 1960).
Record:
Season | School | Overall | League | Finish | Conference (Division) | Postseason (Record) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
13-14 | DNP | |||||
13-11 | DNP | |||||
25-5 | NIT (4-0) | |||||
19-7 | DNP | |||||
10-11 | 5-9 | 7th | DNP | |||
13-9 | 6-8 | T-5th | DNP | |||
13-9 | 11-7 | T-3rd | DNP | |||
9-13 | 4-10 | 8th | DNP | |||
9-16 | 1-11 | 4th | PCC-S | DNP | ||
17-8 | 10-6 | T-3rd | PCC | DNP | ||
21-5 | 14-2 | 1st | PCC | NCAA (1-1) | ||
19-9 | 12-4 | T-1st | PCC | NCAA (1-1) | ||
25-4 | 14-2 | 1st | PCC | NCAA (4-0) | ||
28-2 | 11-1 | 1st | AAWU | NCAA (4-1) |
- 14-Year Coaching Record: 234-123 (.655) overall
- 70-37 (.654) in four years at San Francisco
- 45-42 (.517) in four years at Michigan State
- 119-44 (.730) in six years at California
- 26-34 (.433) in Big Ten Conference
- 62-26 (.705) in Pacific Coast Conference/AAWU (forerunner of Pacific-10)
- 10-3 (.769) in NCAA Tournament
- 4-0 (1.000) in NIT