Greatest College Basketball Coaches by Career Winning Percentage

John Wooden has the most national titles and Mike Krzyzewski has the most wins, but which college basketball coach has the highest career winning percentage?

Recruiting talented players and devising winning game plans weren’t always the only job requirements for a successful college basketball coach. In the early 20th century, many college coaches had to wear more than one hat and coach two or three sports per year. And they still won frequently on the hardwood.

So how do we compare great college basketball coaches from different eras?

We could rank coaches by number of national titles (John Wooden) or career wins (Mike Krzyzewski). Those are both legitimate parameters. But for this list, college coaches are ranked by career winning percentage, spanning at least 10 years at major (Division I or equivalent) programs.

These 50 coaches — all of whom won close to or more than three out of every four games they coached — exemplify sustained excellence.

50. Joe Lapchick

St. John’s coach Joe Lapchick, center, with his team after winning the 1944 NIT tournament. John Lindsay / AP Photo

Coaching career: 20 years (1936-47, 1956-65)

Schools: St. John’s

Record: 334-130

Winning percentage: .7198

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Joe Lapchick was a popular professional basketball player with the Original Celtics. He coached St. John’s from 1936 to 1947, went back to the NBA and coached the New York Knicks for 10 years, then returned to head up the Red Storm from 1957 to 1965.

He led St. John’s to four NIT championships (1943, 1944, 1959, 1965), but made just one NCAA tournament appearance.

The primary source for win-loss records is Sports Reference. Records for active coaches are updated through April 2, 2019.

49. Cam Henderson

Cam Henderson in 1936. Marshall University

Coaching career: 20 years (1935-55)

Schools: Marshall

Record: 283-110

Winning percentage: .7201

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Cam Henderson is credited with pioneering the fast break and the 2-3 zone defense. At Marshall, he served as the athletic director as well as head coach of the football and baseball teams.

On the hardcourt, Henderson’s teams finished with a .500-or-better record in all but one of his years as coach.

48. Gregg Marshall

Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall during a 2018 NCAA tournament game against Marshall. Denis Poroy / AP Photo

Coaching career: 21 years (1998-present)

Schools: Winthrop, Wichita State

Record: 502-195

Winning percentage: .7202

National championships: 0

Bottom line: He’s taken his squads to the NCAA tournament 14 times and led the Wichita State Shockers to the Final Four in 2013.

Marshall also has been to the NIT three times, and won that title in 2011, topping Alabama, 66-57.

46. (tie) Fred Schaus

Fred Schaus in 1955. University of West Virginia

Coaching career: 12 years (1954-60, 1972-78)

Schools: West Virginia, Purdue

Record: 250-97

Winning percentage: .7205

National championships: 0

Bottom line: As a player at West Virginia, Schaus was the first NCAA player to score 1,000 points. After retiring from the NBA, he came back to his alma mater and took the Mountaineers to five straight NCAA berths.

He left to coach the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA, then returned to the college ranks as coach at Purdue, where he led the Boilermakers to the NIT championship in 1974.

46. (tie) Dave Rose

BYU coach Dave Rose argues with an official during a game against Gonzaga in 2018. Rick Bowmer / AP Photo

Coaching career: 14 years (2005-19)

Schools: Brigham Young

Record: 348-135

Winning percentage: .7205

National championships: 0

Bottom line: As a player, Dave Rose was co-captain of the University of Houston ‘Phi Slamma Jamma” team that lost the 1983 NCAA tournament final to North Carolina State.

Coaching BYU in the Mountain West Conference, Rose won 20 games or more in his first 13 seasons. But in November 2018, the NCAA ruled that his 2015-16 and 2016-17 teams had to vacate 47 wins due to a player’s involvement with boosters.

Still, Rose went to the NCAA tournament eight times (posting a 4-8 record) and NIT tournament five teams (going 6-5).

He retired after the 2018-19 season. “I’m 61-years old. I still haven’t worked a day in my life,” Rose said.

45. Joe B. Hall

Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall gets a hug from cheerleaders after a 1978 NCAA tournament win over Michigan State. AP Photo

Coaching career: 16 years (1961-64, 1972-85)

Schools: Regis, Kentucky

Record: 334-129

Winning percentage: .7214

National championships: 1 (1978)

Bottom line: Joe. B Hall coached Kentucky from 1972 to 1985, after a three-year stint at Regis from 1961 to 1964 (and touring as a competing player with the Harlem Globetrotters).

His teams went 20-9 in 10 NCAA tournaments, including three Final Fours and a national championship in 1978.

He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.

44. James Usilton

James Usilton, Temple coach from 1926 to 1939. Temple University

Coaching career: 13 years (1926-39)

Schools: Temple

Record: 205-79

Winning percentage: .7218

National championships: 0

Bottom line: He spent 13 years as head coach at Temple, and during his tenure, he won the first NIT championship. That 1937-38 team that went 23-2 was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

43. Larry Brown

Kansas coach Larry Brown during the 1988 NCAA championship game against the Oklahoma Sooners. AP Photo

Coaching career: 11 years (1979-81, 1983-88, 2012-16)

Schools: UCLA, Kansas, Southern Methodist

Record: 262-100

Winning percentage: .7238

National championships: 1

Bottom line: Larry Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NBA title (Detroit Pistons, 2004) and NCAA championship (Kansas, 1988).

In the college ranks, he took eight teams to the NCAA tournament and compiled a 19-7 record, including the title and three Final Four appearances.

42. Tom Izzo

Michigan State guard Cassius Winston, left, puts his arm around coach Tom Izzo after the team’s win over LSU in a 2019 NCAA tournament game. Patrick Semansky / AP Photo

Coaching career: 24 years (1995-present)

Schools: Michigan State

Record: 606-231

Winning percentage: .7240

National championships: 1 (2000)

Bottom line: “Mr. March” has excelled in the NCAA tournament and won the championship in 2000.

In 24 years, he’s been in the Big Dance 22 times, including a loss in the 2009 title game and eight Final Fours.

He’s also won nine Big Ten championships and six conference tournament titles.

41. Lou Carnesecca

St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca is carried by his team after winning the Big East championship at Madison Square Garden in 1983. G. Paul Burnett / AP Photo

Coaching career: 24 years (1965-70, 1973-92)

Schools: St. John’s

Record: 526-200

Winning percentage: .7245

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Known for his sense of humor and colorful sweater collection, Lou Carnesecca coached 24 seasons at St. John’s and took his teams to the postseason (NCAA or NIT tournament) every year.

His best season with the Red Storm was 1985, when the team went 31-4 and made its only Final Four appearance.

Carnesecca was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

42. Tony Bennett

Virginia coach Tony Bennett during a 2019 NCAA tournament game against Purdue. Timothy D. Easley / AP Photo

Coaching career: 13 years (2006-present)

Schools: Washington State, Virginia

Record: 321-122

Winning percentage: .7246

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Often considered one of the best defensive coaches in college basketball, Tony Bennett has been at Virginia since 2009, and turned the Cavaliers into a perennial ACC powerhouse.

With Virginia, he’s won the regular-season title four times and has been to the postseason 11 times, including a 2018 first-round loss in the NCAA tournament, the first time a No. 1 seed lost to a No. 16 seed.

His team rebounded from that dubious mark the next season and made the 2019 Final Four, his first Final Four appearance.

39. Lew Andreas

Syracuse coach Lew Andreas with members of the 1927-28 team. Orange Hoops

Coaching career: 25 years (1924-50)

Schools: Syracuse

Record: 358-135

Winning percentage: .7262

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Lew Andreas played football and baseball at Syracuse. After graduation, he started coaching football and basketball.

His greatest basketball team was the 1925-26 Orangemen (now just Orange), which went 19-1 and was retroactively named national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

38. Dana Kirk

Memphis State coach Dana Kirk signals to his team during a 1985 NCAA tournament game against Boston College. Carlos Osorio / AP Photo

Coaching career: 10 years (1976-86)

Schools: Virginia Commonwealth, Memphis

Record: 215-81

Winning percentage: .7264

National championships: 0

Bottom line: This isn’t a pretty story. Dana Kirk built Memphis into a powerhouse in the early 1980s, with five straight trips to the NCAA tournament and a Final Four appearance in 1984-85.

A year later, Kirk was found to have committed severe recruiting violations, and Memphis State had all of its NCAA tournament games from 1982 to 1985 vacated.

37. Henry Lannigan

Henry Lannigan was the Virginia basketball coach for 24 years. Big Blue History

Coaching career: 24 years (1905-29)

Schools: Virginia

Record: 254-95

Winning percentage: .728

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Henry Lannigan was the first basketball coach at the University of Virginia. His 1914-15 basketball team finished with a perfect 17-0 record.

Lannigan also coached the track team (the university’s track and field venue is named in his honor) and formed the Cavaliers’ first boxing team.

36. Nat Holman

Nat Holman and 1950 City College of New York basketball team

City College of New York coach Nat Holman, surrounded by his 1950 championship basketball team and school officials, holds the NCAA trophy in Madison Square Garden after becoming basketball’s first “grand slam” team by beating Bradley in the finals of both the NCAA and NIT tourneys. Matty Zimmerman / AP Photo

Coaching career: 37 years (1919-52, 1954-50)

Schools: City College of New York

Record: 405-150

Winning percentage: .7297

National championships: 1 (1950)

Bottom line: Even while he played professional basketball until 1930, Nat Holman started as the City College of New York (CCNY) coach in 1919.

“Mr. Basketball” won both the NCAA and the NIT tournaments in 1950 (before the tourneys were run concurrently).

In 1951, CCNY players were caught in a multi-team point-shaving scandal. Holman was cleared, but the scandal led to CCNY dropping to Division III.

35. Jim Boeheim

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim reacts to a call during a 2019 game against North Carolina. Ben McKeown / AP Photo

Coaching career: 43 years (1976-present)

Schools: Syracuse

Record: 1,047-385

Winning percentage: .7311

National championships: 1 (2003)

Bottom line: Jim Boeheim often doesn’t look chipper — even though winning more than 1,000 games should cheer up any coach.

In 43 seasons, he’s gone to the NCAA Tournament an astounding 34 times, where he’s 60-33.

The Orange have been in five Final Fours, and are 1-2 in championship games, with the national title coming in 2003.

34. Lute Olson

Arizona coach Lute Olson holds up the net after his team beat Kentucky in overtime to win the 1997 national championship. Ed Reinke / AP Photo

Coaching career: 34 years (1973-2007)

Schools: Long Beach State, Iowa, Arizona

Record: 776-285

Winning percentage: .7314

National championships: 1 (1997)

Bottom line: Lute Olson was head coach at Arizona for 25 years, where he won 11 Pac-10 regular-season titles and a national championship in 1997.

He took teams to the NCAA tournament 28 times, compiling a 46-28 record that included five trips to the Final Four.

Olson was inducted into both the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

33. Doc Meanwell

Walter “Doc” Meanwell in 1912. University of Wisconsin

Coaching career: 22 years (1911-34)

Schools: Wisconsin, Missouri

Record: 280-101

Winning percentage: .7349

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Walter Meanwell, a native of Leeds, England, led Wisconsin to perfect 15-0 records in 1911-12 and 1913-14.

Nicknamed “Doc” after he earned a doctorate degree in 1915, Meanwell had an astounding 126-11 win-loss record in his first eight seasons as a college coach, including two years at Missouri.

32. Ott Romney

Ott Romney in 1928. Montana State University

Coaching career: 13 years (1922-35)

Schools: Montana State, Bigham Young

Record: 283-102

Winning percentage: .7351

National championships: 0

Bottom line: A relative of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, George Ottinger “Ott” Romney coached basketball, football and track at Montana State Agricultural College (now Montana State) and Brigham Young.

Over his college coaching career, Romney never won fewer than 18 games in a season, and went 36-2 in 1927-28.

31. Phog Allen

Kansas coach Phog Allen explains play formations to players in preparation for a game in New York with Fordham in 1940. Tom Sande / AP Photo

Coaching career: 49 years (1905-09, 1912-56)

Schools: Baker University, Kansas, Central Missouri

Record: 719-259

Winning percentage: .7352

National championships: 1 (1952)

Bottom line: Forrest Clare “Phog” Allen got his nickname from his foghorn-like voice, and is known as the “Father of Basketball Coaching.”

In 39 seasons at Kansas, his teams won 24 conference championships.

His 1951-52 Jayhawks won the NCAA championship, and were runners-up in 1940 and 1953.

30. Everett Case

Everett Case in 1951. Wikipedia

Coaching career: 19 years (1946-65)

Schools: North Carolina State

Record: 377-134

Winning percentage: .7378

National championships: 0

Bottom line: The “Gray Fox” compiled an impressive record over 19 years at North Carolina State, where he won nine ACC regular-season titles and notched 11 conference tournament wins.

He made the NCAA Final Four one time.

As a high school coach, Case went 726-75 over 23 years, winning four Indiana state championships.

29. Sean Miller

Arizona coach Sean Miller during a game against Arizona State in 2019. Rick Scuteri / AP Photo

Coaching career: 15 years (2004- present)

Schools: Xavier, Arizona

Record: 384-136

Winning percentage: .7385

National championships: 0

Bottom line: He’s a three-time gold medalist with USA Basketball — once as a player, once as an assistant coach and once as a head coach.

In NCAA tournament play, Sean Miller has taken teams to the Big Dance 11 times, compiling a 19-11 record, with no trips to the Final Four.

28. Rick Pitino

Kentucky coach Rick Pitino offers advice from the bench during an NCAA tournament game in 1997. Paul Sakuma / AP Photo

Coaching career: 32 years (1975-76, 1978-83, 1985-87, 1989-97, 2001-17)

Schools: Hawaii, Boston University, Providence, Kentucky, Louisville

Record: 770-271

Winning percentage: .7397

National championships: 2 (1996, 2013)

Bottom line: In 21 visits to the NCAA tournament, Rick Pitino compiled a 54-19 record, including seven Final Four appearances and a pair of national championships.

The first title with Kentucky in 1996, after the Wildcats finished the regular season with a 34-2 record.

Pitino’s 2013 championship with Louisville was later forfeited after the NCAA found the program guilty of several infractions.

27. Thad Matta

Ohio State head coach Thad Matta, center, during a game against Maryland in 2017. Patrick Semansky / AP Photo

Coaching career: 17 years (2000-17)

Schools: Butler, Xavier, Ohio State

Record: 439-154

Winning percentage: .7403

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Thad Matta got his start as a college head coach at his alma mater, Butler. After short stints there and at Xavier (wining conference coach of the year at both stops), he got the top spot at Ohio State.

Matta coached the Buckeyes for 13 years (2004-17), took two Ohio State teams to the Final Four, and won four Big Ten conference tournaments.

26. Edward McNichol

Edward McNichol and 1920 Penn basketball team

Penn coach Edward McNichol with the 1920 team. Penn University Archives and Record Center

Coaching career: 10 years (1920-30)

Schools: Penn

Record: 186-63

Winning percentage: .7470

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Edward McNichol played on Penn’s basketball team from 1914 to 1917, and in his junior year was named a consensus All-American by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

In his first year coaching the team (1920), the Quakers finished with a 21-2 record and were retroactively named the Helms Athletic Foundation national champions.

25. Chick Davies

Chick Davies with Duquesne basketball players. Duquesne University

Coaching career: 21 years (1924-43, 1946-48)

Schools: Duquesne

Record: 314-106

Winning percentage: .7476

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Charles “Chick” Davies spent his entire coaching career at Duquesne, a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pa.

In 1940 — the first year college basketball appeared on television — Davies took the 20-3 Dukes to both the NCAA and NIT tournaments. In the six-team NIT field, Duquesne lost in the finals to Colorado. Prior to the NIT tourney, Davies’ club had lost in the Final Four of the eight-team NCAA field.

He went 1-1 in NCAA tournament games and 2-3 in the NIT in his career.

24. Fred Bennion

Fred Bennion at BYU in 1911. Wikimedia

Coaching career: 11 years (1908-19)

Schools: Brigham Young, Utah, Montana State

Record: 96-31

Winning percentage: .7559

National championships: 0

Bottom line: During his career at three colleges, Fred Bennion coached basketball at BYU, Utah and Montana Agricultural (now Montana State) — but he also coached football at Utah and baseball at BYU.

His best stint on the hardwood was a 44-9 run (.830 winning percentage) at Utah.

23. Harry Fisher

Harry Fisher in 1905. Wikipedia

Coaching career: 14 years (1904-16, 1921-25)

Schools: Fordham, Army, Columbia, St. Johns

Record: 189-60

Winning percentage: .7590

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Say what? Harry Fisher began coaching the Fordham University team while he was an All-American student-athlete on the Columbia basketball team that won a national championship in 1906.

Fisher went on to coach at Columbia for a decade, racking up a 101-39 record.

On top of that impressive legacy, Fisher was in the group that wrote the original rules for collegiate basketball.

22. Vic Bubas

Duke coach Vic Bubas, right, and Art Heyman, with a net wrapped around his neck, celebrate their 1963 NCAA tournament victory over St. Joseph’s College of Philadelphia. William A. Smith / AP Photo

Coaching career: 10 years (1959-69)

School: Duke

Record: 213-67

Winning percentage: .7607

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Vic Bubas is credited with pioneering the art of recruiting players on a national basis. He expanded Duke’s program from a regional to a national stage.

His Blue Devil teams won four conference championships and went to the NCAA tournament each time. He made it to three Final Fours and has an 11-4 postseason record.

21. George Keogan

George Keogan never had a losing record as a college basketball coach in 23 NCAA seasons. lelands

Coaching career: 23 years (1915-16, 1919-21, 1923-43)

Schools: Saint Louis, Valparaiso, Notre Dame

Record: 371-116

Winning percentage: .7618

National championships: 0

Bottom line: After one year at Saint Louis and two years at Valpo, George Keogan made his mark as a coach for 20 years at Notre Dame.

In two decades leading the Fighting Irish, he never had a losing season.

Keogan also was the head baseball coach and an assistant to Irish football coach Knute Rockne.

20. Walter Livingston

Walter Livingston at Denison. Denison University

Coaching career: 16 years (1911-27)

School: Denison

Record: 180-56

Winning percentage: .7627

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Walter Livingston served as the basketball, football and track coach at Denison.

From 1911 to 1952, he also was the school’s athletic director.

“Livy” never had a losing season in 16 years on the hardcourt with the Big Red.

19. Bill Self

Kansas coach Bill Self reacts to a play during a 2019 game against Texas in Austin. Eric Gay / AP Photo

Number of seasons coaching: 26 years (1993-present)

Schools: Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Illinois, Kansas

Record: 680-211

Winning percentage: .7632

National championships: 1 (2008)

Bottom line: Bill Self has done his best work at Kansas, where his 16-year winning percentage is .817, including a home win percentage of .957 at Allen Fieldhouse.

He led the Jayhawks to at least a share of 14 straight Big 12 regular-season championships, a Kansas record.

Self has been in the NCAA tournament 21 times, gone to three Final Fours, won the national championship in 2008 and has a 47-19 postseason record.

18. Frank Keaney

Rhode Island coach Frank Keaney, left, and player Al Palmieri, right, give center Ernie Calverley a victory ride at Madison Square Garden after an NIT win over Bowling Green in 1946. AP Photo

Coaching career: 28 years (1920-48)

School: Rhode Island

Record: 401-124

Winning percentage: .7638

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Frank Keaney was an innovator of the run-and-shoot offense during his 28-year tenure at Rhode Island.

He won eight conference championships and participated in four postseasons in the NIT.

After retiring from the college game, he was offered the head coaching post with the Boston Celtics, but his doctor refused to let him take the job.

17. Jack Ramsey

St. Joseph coach Jack Ramsay gets down to business on the sidelines directing his team during win over Manhattan in a 1959 Holiday Festival game at Madison Square Garden in New York. Harry Harris / AP Photo

Coaching career: 11 years (1955-66)

Schools: Saint Joseph’s

Record: 234-72

Winning percentage: .7647

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Before “Dr. Jack” led the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA title and then became an ESPN commentator, he made a mark at Saint Joseph’s.

In his first season, the Hawks made the postseason (NIT) for the first time.

In his 11-year college coaching career, Ramsay took his college squads to the NCAA Tournament seven times and advanced to one Final Four.

16. Mike Krzyzewski

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski signals to his players during a road game against Syracuse in 2019. Nick Lisi / AP Photo

Coaching career: 44 years (1975-present)

Schools: Army, Duke

Record: 1,132-344

Winning percentage: .7669

National championships: 5 (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015)

Bottom line: Still going strong, “Coach K” is the all-time leader in total wins, and only John Wooden has more national championships.

Krzyzewski has taken the Blue Devils to the NCAA tournament 34 times, including 12 Final Fours, while piling up 94 postseason wins.

He also coached three United States men’s basketball teams to Olympic gold medals.

15. Dean Smith

North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith cuts the net after the Tar Heels beat Georgetown to win the 1982 NCAA championship in New Orleans Pete Leabo / AP Photo

Coaching career: 36 years (1961-97)

Schools: North Carolina

Record: 879-254

Winning percentage: .7758

National championships: 2 (1982, 1993)

Bottom line: The legendary “Dean” of college basketball, Smith was a success on the court and so were his players in the classroom, with 96.6 percent of his student-athletes receiving their degrees.

In 36 years as the Tar Heels coach, Smith led his teams to the NCAA tournament 27 times and advanced to the Final Four 11 times. His overall postseason record is 65-27.

14. John Calipari

John Calipari coaching his Massachusetts team against Kentucky in the 1996 Final Four. Ed Reinke / AP Photo

Coaching career: 27 years (1988-present)

Schools: Massachusetts, Memphis, Kentucky

Record: 750-211

Winning percentage: .7804

National championships: 1 (2012)

Bottom line: Including his national championship with Kentucky, John Calipari has taken three different schools to the Final Four: Kentucky (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015), UMass (1996) and Memphis (2008).

Despite run-ins with the media and NCAA, Calipari has been successful. His teams have won 20 games 21 times and collected 30 wins eight times. He also has three 35-win seasons.

13. Francis Schmidt

Francis Albert Schmidt at Texas Christian University in an undated photo. AP Photo

Number of seasons coaching: 17 years (1915-34)

Schools: Tulsa, Arkansas, Texas Christian

Record: 258-72

Winning percentage: .7818

National championships: 0

Bottom line: While at Arkansas, Francis Schmidt coached the basketball, football and baseball teams, all of which were consistent winners.

Schmidt’s contribution to pop culture is the internationally known cliché: “Those fellows put their pants on one leg at a time,” which he uttered as the football coach at Ohio State before a game with Michigan.

12. James Freeman

James Freeman coaching at St. John’s. St. John’s

Coaching career: 10 years (1927-36, 1974-48)

Schools: St. John’s, Scranton

Record: 184-51

Winning percentage: .7830

National championships: 0

Bottom line: James Freeman played for St. John’s, graduated in 1927 and became the head basketball coach the following year.

He left in 1936 with a 177-31 record and a winning percentage of .851, which would have been the best in college basketball history. But one year of coaching at Scranton and a 7-20 record there caused the winning percentage to dip.

11. Al McGuire

Marquette basketball coach Al McGuire shouts to his team during a NCAA semifinal game against Kansas in 1974. AP Photo

Coaching career: 13 years (1964-77)

Schools: Marquette

Record: 295-80

Winning percentage: .7867

National championships: 1 (1977)

Bottom line: What a way to go out. Al McGuire won a national championship in his final season at Marquette.

He took the Golden Eagles to the NCAA tournament nine times (including two Final Fours) and amassed a postseason record of 20-9.

After coaching, McGuire became a color commentator for college games, famously paired on TV with Billy Packer.

10. Roy Williams

Roy Williams cuts down the net after his Kansas team won the Midwest Regional in the 1993 NCAA tournament. Seth Perlman / AP Photo

Coaching career: 31 years (1988-present)

Schools: Kansas, North Carolina

Record: 871-234

Winning percentage: .7882

National championships: 3 (2005, 2009, 2017)

Bottom line: He moved from one national powerhouse to another, coaching Kansas to a .805 winning percentage (1988-2003) and then North Carolina (.774 and counting).

All three of Roy Williams’ national championships came with the Tar Heels, including his second season there (2005).

9. Jerry Tarkanian

UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian raises his arm in victory after his team won an NCAA tournament game in 1986. Nick Ut / AP Photo

Coaching career: 30 years (1969-92, 1995-2002)

Schools: Long Beach State, Nevada-Las Vegas, Fresno State

Record: 761-202

Winning percentage: .7902

National championships: 1 (1990)

Bottom line: The bald-pated, towel-chewing Jerry Tarkanian is best known for coaching success with the Runnin’ Rebels at UNLV. He took those squads to four Final Fours and won a national championship in 1990.

“Tark the Shark” went to the NCAA tournament 18 times, going 38-18.

He revolutionized the college game with a pressing defense that fed into a fast-paced offense.

8. Ralph Jones

Ralph Jones, in his 1910 Purdue yearbook, was nicknamed “Curley.” Wikipedia

Coaching career: 17 years (1903-20)

Schools: Butler, Wabash, Purdue, Illinois

Record: 194-51

Winning percentage: .7918

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Ralph Jones was an integral part of the development of high school basketball programs in Indiana and organized a school team as a student in 1899.

As a college coach, he won four conference titles and led three different schools to undefeated seasons: Wabash (1908), Purdue (1912) and Illinois (1915).

7. Thomas Kibler

Thomas Kibler coached basketball, football and baseball at Washington College. Washington College

Coaching career: 12 years (1908-10, 1913-17, 1919-25)

Schools: Ohio State, Washington College

Record: 125-32

Winning percentage: .7962

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Thomas Kibler coached just two years at Ohio State, and with a record of 22-2, he still holds that school’s record for highest winning percentage.

He coached basketball, football and baseball at Washington College, and in 1925, his hoops squad finished the season with a perfect 20-0 record — the last season the school was classified as a major college basketball program (Division I or equivalent).

Kibler coached the Shoremen basketball team until 1939 and won 169 more games, going 272-98 overall.

6. John Kresse

College of Charleston coach John Kresse during a NCAA tournament game against Tulsa in 1999. Daniel Hulshizer / AP Photo

Coaching career: 11 years (1991-2002)

School: College of Charleston

Record: 258-64

Winning percentage: .8012

National championships: 0

Bottom line: John Kresse never had a losing season as coach of the College of Charleston Cougars.

He won nine conference championships but notched just one win in the NCAA tournament, going 1-4 in four appearances.

5. John Wooden

UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, holding his signature rolled-up program in his hand, reacts from the sidelines during a Bruins game. AP Photo

Coaching career: 29 years (1946-75)

Schools: Indiana State, UCLA

Record: 664-162

Winning percentage: .8039

National championships: 10 (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975)

Bottom line: The Wizard of Westwood set the standard for college basketball greatness.

John Wooden won 10 national championships in a 12-year stretch, including an astounding seven in a row. During that run, his UCLA Bruins teams won an NCAA-record 88 consecutive games.

His pyramid of success is legendary, and he was national coach of the year a record seven times.

4. Adolph Rupp

University of Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp and his team admire their 1949 NCAA basketball title hardware. Paul Wagner / AP Photo

Coaching career: 41 years (1930-72)

School: Kentucky

Record: 876-190

Winning percentage: .8218

National championships: 4 (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958)

Bottom line: Adolph Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1969, and his name is on the arena where the Kentucky Wildcats play their home games.

Rupp was an early innovator of the fast break and set offense.

He won four national titles while recruiting 80 percent of his players from Kentucky.

3. Mark Few

Gonzaga coach Mark Few during the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge in 2006. Paul Connors / AP Photo

Coaching career: 20 years (1999-present)

Schools: Gonzaga

Record: 568-122

Winning percentage: .8232

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Mark Few is just 56 years old, so he likely has many years left to add to his streak of 20 winning seasons (above .500).

In his college coaching career, Few has lost 10 or more games in a season only twice, led Gonzaga to 18 West Coast Conference championships and made the NCAA tournament every year, advancing to the Final Four in 2017.

2. Clair Bee

Former Long Island coach Clair Bee during ceremonies honoring him at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., in 1972. Ron Frehm / AP Photo

Coaching career: 21 years (1928-31, 1931-51)

Schools: Rider, Long Island University

Record: 413-88

Winning percentage: .8244

National championships: 0

Bottom line: Clair Bee’s teams won 95 percent of their games from 1931 to 1951, including 43 in a row from 1935-37.

Credited with the creation of the 1-3-1 zone, he twice helmed undefeated seasons at Long Island University and won NIT titles in 1939 and 1941.

1. Sam Burton

Sam Burton at West Texas A&M. kidsinc.org

Coaching career: 12 years (1921-33)

School: West Texas A&M

Record: 210-42

Winning percentage: .8333

National championships: 0

Bottom line: When Sam Burton first joined the West Texas State Teachers College, he was asked to coach basketball, baseball, football and track.

He was known as “Sad Sam” for the dour expression he wore on the bench — but none of his basketball teams ever lost more than five games in a season.