UUCLACLA CCOACHESOACHES AANDND SSTAFFTAFF UUCLACLA CCOACHINGOACHING SSTAFFTAFF BBENEN HHOWLANDOWLAND HHeadead CCoachoach • 88thth YYearear AAlmalma MMater:ater: WWebereber SStatetate ‘‘7979 Entering his eighth year as the contest. UCLA also won the 2006 Pac-10 Bruins’ head coach in 2010-11, Ben Tournament Championship, its fi rst Pac-10 Howland became the fi rst UCLA coach Tournament title since 1987. since the late Coach John R. Wooden In his 17th year as a collegiate head to win three straight Pac-10 Conference coach (he’s been a Conference Coach championships (2006-08) and is the only of the Year selection in three different other UCLA coach other than Wooden to leagues - 2006, Pac-10 Coach of the Year earn three straight Final Four appearances at UCLA/2002, Big East Coach of the Year (2006-08). at Pittsburgh/1997, Big Sky Coach of the Also in 2008, Howland became one Year at Northern Arizona) and in his 29th of just three coaches in NCAA Division I season of collegiate basketball (as an history to win at least 30 games in three assistant and head coach), he’s 166-72 consecutive seasons, joining Adolph Rupp (.697, 238 games) at UCLA, including (Kentucky 1947-49) and John Calipari 137-44 (.757, 181 games) in his last fi ve (Memphis 2006-08). seasons as the Bruins’ head coach. He also Howland and his staff are in a has a Pac-10 record of 84-44 (.656, 128 rebuilding year, but have loaded the games). Howland’s career mark is 334-171 roster with back-to-back-to-back Top 15 (.661, 505 games). recruiting classes. After fi nishing 14-18 He garnered two National Coach of overall and 8-10 (T-5th) in the Pac-10 last the Year honors in 2006 - the Jim Phelan year, the Bruins are poised to be among Award (CollegeInsider.com) and from the nation’s elite teams in 2010-11. Collegehoops.net. Howland was the 2006 Howland guided the Bruins to a 26-9 Pac-10 Coach of the Year and earned overall record and a 13-5 league mark to numerous other Conference Coach of the place second in the Pac-10 in 2008-09. Year honors as well as being named the His Bruins have fi nished in the top three USBWA Dist. IX and Basketball Times All- in the rugged Pac-10 for fi ve out of the West Coast Coach of the Year. last six seasons. He has led a team to the “Sweet 16” fi ve He also guided the Bruins to a school- times in the last nine years — Pittsburgh record 35 victories in 2008. Additionally, in 2002 and 2003 and UCLA in 2006, 2007 he won more games in a three-year span and 2008. Howland recorded his 50th Bruin (97 from 2006-08) than any other coach win vs. Oregon State (Feb. 23, 2006), his in UCLA history. UCLA also won the 2008 200th career win on Nov. 19, 2005, vs. Pac-10 Tournament Championship and Delaware State and won his 300th game fi nished the year with an overall record in the 72-54 win over DePaul in the John of 35-4 and a 16-2 mark in the Pac-10. R. Wooden Classic at Honda Center on In 2007, the Bruins went undefeated at Dec. 13, 2008. home (16-0) and ended the season with After a two-year hiatus, Howland led a 30-6 overall record and a 15-3 mark in the Bruins back to the NCAA Tournament the Pac-10. in 2005 and joined an elite list of college In 2006, he directed UCLA to the NCAA coaches who have led three teams to Championship game (for the fi rst time the “Big Dance” -- 2006 UCLA (NCAA since the Bruins’ 1995 national title run) Finalist)/2005 UCLA, 2003 Pittsburgh and to an NCAA Regional Championship. (“Sweet 16), 2002 Pittsburgh (“Sweet The Bruins recorded 32 victories, tying the 16”) and 1998 Northern Arizona. Following then-school record of 32 wins set in 1995, the 2005 NCAA Tournament, there were and posted a 12-game winning streak only 28 coaches in Tournament history (longest since 1997) entering the NCAA title who had guided three different schools 36 NCAA Final Four Appearances - ’62, ’64, ’65, ’67, ’68, ’69, ’70, ’71, ’72, ’73, ’74, ’75, ’76, ’80, ’95, ’06, ’07, ’08 HHEADEAD CCOACHOACH BBENEN HHOWLANDOWLAND to the Tournament. Howland’s overall that works harder than Howland and his to turn programs around. At UCLA, in just NCAA record is 18-8 (14-5 at UCLA, 4- Bruin assistants. his second season (2005), he guided the 2 at Pittsburgh and 0-1 at NAU), and in “It’s nice to be recognized, but you can Bruins to a third-place fi nish (tie) in the 2006 he made his fi rst trip to the Final never rest on what you’ve done,” Howland Pac-10 and back to the NCAA Tournament Four as a head coach. said. “You have to keep working, keep for the fi rst time since 2002. At Pittsburgh, Howland’s sound philosophies about pushing to get better. You’ve got to have he took over a losing program, and by his coaching and recruiting have the Bruins good players. No one understands that third year (2002), the Panthers were in pointed in a winning direction as he more than me. I hope to think every year the NCAA “Sweet 16” and Howland was enters his eighth season as UCLA’s head I’m a better coach than I was the year the consensus National Coach of the Year. coach. before. You hope to always improve.” In his fourth season (1998) at Northern Howland and his talented staff have Arizona, he led the Lumberjacks to their landed back-to-back-to-back Top 15 fi rst-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. nationally-ranked recruiting classes. In “I am honored to be the head In 2008, Howland guided the Bruins 2010, the Bruins’ recruiting class ranked basketball coach at UCLA, and I am to a No. 3 fi nal ranking in the Associated No. 15 by ESPN and includes Joshua grateful to Dan Guerrero for giving Press Poll and a No. 4 ranking in the Smith, 6-10, C; Lazeric Jones, 6-0, G; me this opportunity. Having grown ESPN/USA Today Poll, a 35-4 overall Tyler Lamb, 6-4, G; and Matt Carlino, 6- up in Southern California as a Bruin record and a 16-2 Pac-10 record, winning 1, G. In 2009, the Bruins’ recruiting class the Bruins’ third straight regular season fan, watching the televised replays ranked No. 4 by Scout.com. The class league title and their second Pac-10 of the games was special for me. includes fi ve players that are all 6-foot- Tournament title in three years. The 35 7-inches or taller (Tyler Honeycutt, 6-7, To now be the head coach of this victories were the most in school history. F; Brendan Lane, 6-9, F; Mike Moser, 6- program is something I dreamed UCLA made its national-leading 18th 8, F; Reeves Nelson, 6-8, F and Anthony about but never thought possible. Final Four appearance in 2008. Since Stover, 6-10, C). The 2008 recruiting I have an appreciation for what 1975, the Bruins have advanced to 17 class was ranked No. 1 in the country by UCLA means in the world of college NCAA Regionals, including six since 2000 many scouting services and national Web basketball. We should be competing and nine since 1995. sites. The class included the Gatorade In 2007, Howland guided the Bruins for the Pacifi c-10 title and a high National Player of the Year, Jrue Holiday, to a No. 3 fi nal national ranking in the seed in the NCAA Tournament year- and four other top 50 players (Drew ESPN/USA Today Poll and a No. 7 ranking Gordon, Jerime Anderson, Malcolm Lee in and year-out, and I look forward in the Associated Press Poll (entering the and a late addition in J’mison Morgan). to that challenge.” NCAA Tournament), a 30-6 overall record In 2004, the Bruins recruited the — UCLA Basketball Coach and a 15-3 Pac-10 record, winning UCLA’s nation’s No. 4 (HoopMasters.com) Ben Howland second-straight regular season conference incoming freshman class -- led by championship and the school’s 29th league McDonald’s All-Americans, point guard title. UCLA made its 17th Final Four Jordan Farmar and guard Arron Affl alo, UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero appearance in 2007, surpassing North along with Parade Magazine All-American knew he had hired a winner on April 3, Carolina for the most ever Final Four guard Josh Shipp and CalHi Sports All- 2003, when Howland was announced appearances. State center/forward Lorenzo Mata-Real. as the Bruins’ 12th head coach in the In 2006, Howland directed the Bruins The 2005 class featured fi ve of high 87-year storied history of UCLA men’s to a No. 7 national ranking (entering the school basketball’s top seniors, considered basketball. NCAA Tournament), a 32-7 overall record to be among the best 100 players in North “Ben Howland is an outstanding (32 victories tied the then-school record for America -- Alfred Aboya, Darren Collison, basketball coach, one of the best in the most wins set in 1995) and a 14-4 Pac-10 Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Michael Roll entire country, and he is the man we want record, winning UCLA’s fi rst regular season and Ryan Wright.