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UUCLACLA COACHESCOACHES ANDAND STAFFSTAFF HEAD COACH BEN HOWLAND Ben Howland appearances. Also in 2008, Howland 97-17 (.851, 114 games) in his last knows how became one of just three coaches in NCAA three seasons as the Bruins’ head coach. to rebuild Division I history to win at least 30 games Howland’s career mark is 294-144 (.671, a collegiate in three consecutive seasons, joining 438 games). basketball Adolph Rupp (Kentucky 1947-49) and He garnered two National Coach of program. John Calipari (Memphis 2006-08). the Year honors in 2006 - the Jim Phelan He did it at In 2007, the Bruins went undefeated at Award (CollegeInsider.com) and from Pittsburgh home (16-0) and ended the season with Collegehoops.net. Howland was the 2006 and again a 30-6 overall record and a 15-3 mark in Pac-10 Coach of the Year and earned at Northern the Pac-10. Additionally, the Bruins’ 65 numerous other Conference Coach of the Arizona. And wins over the last two seasons are the Year honors as well as being named the he’s done it at most in a two-year span in UCLA men’s USBWA Dist. IX and Basketball Times All- UCLA. basketball history. West Coast Coach of the Year. Entering In 2006, he directed UCLA to the NCAA He has led a team to the “Sweet 16” his sixth year Championship game (for the fi rst time fi ve times in the last seven years — as the Bruins’ head coach in 2008-09, since the Bruins’ 1995 national title run) Pittsburgh in 2002 and 2003 and UCLA in Howland has led UCLA to back-to-back-to- and to an NCAA Regional Championship, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Howland recorded back Pacifi c-10 titles (2006-08) and back- 32 victories (tying the then-school record his 50th Bruin win vs. Oregon State (Feb. to-back-to-back Final Four appearances of 32 wins set in 1995) and a 12-game 23, 2006), his 200th career win on Nov. (2006-08). He also guided the Bruins winning streak (longest since 1997) 19, 2005, vs. Delaware State and won his to a school-record 35 victories in 2008. entering the NCAA title contest. UCLA 250th game in the 70-65 home win over Additionally, he has won more games in a also won the 2006 Pac-10 Tournament 19th-ranked USC on Feb. 7, 2007. three-year span (97 from 2006-08) than Championship (fi rst since 1987). After a two-year hiatus, Howland led any other coach in UCLA history. UCLA In his 15th year as a collegiate head the Bruins back to the NCAA Tournament also won the 2008 Pac-10 Tournament coach (he’s been a Conference Coach in 2005 and joined an elite list of college Championship and fi nished the year with of the Year selection in three different coaches who have led three teams to an overall record of 35-4 and a 16-2 mark leagues - 2006, Pac-10 Coach of the Year the “Big Dance” -- 2006 UCLA (NCAA in the Pac-10. at UCLA/2002, Big East Coach of the Year Finalist)/2005 UCLA, 2003 Pittsburgh He became the fi rst UCLA coach at Pittsburgh/1997, Big Sky Coach of the (“Sweet 16), 2002 Pittsburgh (“Sweet since John Wooden to win three straight Year at Northern Arizona) and in his 28th 16”) and 1998 Northern Arizona. Following conference championships in 2008 and season of collegiate basketball (as an the 2005 NCAA Tournament, there were is the only other UCLA coach other than assistant and head coach), he’s 126-45 only 28 coaches in Tournament history Wooden to earn three straight Final Four (.737, 171 games) at UCLA, including who had guided three different schools to Coach Howland with Coach John R. Wooden Has Won 97 Games in the Last Three Years 2007 NABC District 15 Coach of the Year 38 NCAA Final Four Appearances - ’62, ’64, ’65, ’67, ’68, ’69, ’70, ’71, ’72, ’73, ’74, ’75, ’76, ’80, ’95, ’06, ’07, ’08 HEAD COACH BEN HOWLAND the Tournament. Howland’s overall NCAA entire country, and he is the man we want victories were the most in school history. record is 17-7 (13-4 at UCLA, 4-2 at to run our program,” Guerrero said. “He UCLA made its national-leading 18th Final Pittsburgh and 0-1 at NAU), and in 2006 has built winning programs throughout his Four appearance in 2008. Since 1975, he made his fi rst trip to the Final Four as a career, and we expect that he will return the Bruins have advanced to 17 NCAA head coach. UCLA basketball to the nation’s elite. Ben Regionals, including six since 2000 and Howland’s sound philosophies about understands that championships are built nine since 1995. coaching and recruiting have the Bruins on defense, intensity, team-work and In 2007, Howland guided the Bruins pointed in a winning direction as he enters fundamentals, and those elements are the to a No. 3 fi nal national ranking in the his sixth season as UCLA’s head coach. foundation of his philosophy. His teams ESPN/USA Today Poll and a No. 7 ranking Howland and his talented staff in 2008 come to play every night, and they do an in the Associated Press Poll (entering recruited a class that ranked No. 1 in the outstanding job on both ends of the fl oor.” the NCAA Tournament), a 30-6 overall country by many scouting services and record and a 15-3 Pac-10 record, winning national web sites. The class includes UCLA’s second-straight regular season the Gatorade National Player of the Year “I am honored to be the head conference championship and the school’s in Jrue Holiday and four other top 50 basketball coach at UCLA, and I am 29th league title. UCLA made its 17th Final Four appearance in 2007, surpassing players (Drew Gordon, Jerime Anderson, grateful to Dan Guerrero for giving Malcolm Lee and a late addition in J’mison North Carolina for the most ever Final me this opportunity. Having grown Morgan). Four appearances. In 2004, the Bruins recruited the up in Southern California as a Bruin In 2006, Howland directed the Bruins nation’s No. 4 (HoopMasters.com) fan, watching the televised replays to a No. 7 national ranking (entering incoming freshman class -- led by of the games was special for me. the NCAA Tournament), a 32-7 overall McDonald’s All-Americans, point guard To now be the head coach of this record (32 victories tied the then-school Jordan Farmar and guard Arron Affl alo, record for most wins set in 1995) and a program is something I dreamed along with Parade Magazine All-American 14-4 Pac-10 record, winning UCLA’s fi rst about but never thought possible. guard Josh Shipp and CalHi Sports All- regular season conference championship State center/forward Lorenzo Mata-Real. I have an appreciation for what since 1997 and good for the No. 1 seed in The 2005 class featured fi ve of high UCLA means in the world of college the Pac-10 Tournament (the Bruins won school basketball’s top seniors, considered basketball. We should be competing the Pac-10 Tournament, for the fi rst time since 1987). The Bruins’ 12-game winning to be among the best 100 players in North for the Pacifi c-10 title and a high America -- Alfred Aboya, Darren Collison, streak going into the NCAA Championship seed in the NCAA Tournament year- Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Michael Roll game was UCLA’s longest since the end and Ryan Wright. in and year-out, and I look forward of the 1997 season (when UCLA’s 12- In 2006, the Bruins signed three to that challenge.” game winning streak was snapped by Minnesota in the NCAA Regional Final in talented players -- McDonald’s and Parade — UCLA Basketball Coach All-American James Keefe, Nikola Dragovic Ben Howland San Antonio). The 2006 Bruins will be and fi rst-team All-CIF guard Russell remembered for their defensive tenacity, Westbrook. allowing opponents only 58.7 points a game overall (39 games/the fourth-lowest In 2007, Howland landed the nation’s HOWLAND AT UCLA top freshman, Gatorade National Player of total in school history), including 59.3 the Year, Kevin Love and the Los Angeles Howland has demonstrated an ability points in conference games (18 games) Times’ Player of the Year, Chace Stanback. to turn programs around. At UCLA, in and just 56.2 points in NCAA Tournament It takes time and hard work to rebuild a just his second season (2005), he guided play (six games). program, and there’s not a collegiate head the Bruins to a third-place fi nish (tie) “Winning championships is all about coach or staff in the United States that in the Pac-10 and back to the NCAA defense,” Howland said. “If you look every works harder than Howland and his Bruin Tournament for the fi rst time since 2002. year at the Final Four, the best teams in assistants. At Pittsburgh, he took over a losing the country always play the best defense. “It’s nice to be recognized, but you can program, and by his third year (2002), Holding teams to under 40 percent from never rest on what you’ve done,” Howland the Panthers were in the NCAA “Sweet the fi eld is something that is pretty said. “You have to keep working, keep 16” and Howland was the consensus consistent among Final Four teams.” pushing to get better.