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The men's college basketball program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was founded in 1919 and is known competitively as the UCLA Bruins. The team has had 13 head coaches in its history, and they have won 11 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's Division I Basketball Championships, the most of any school. [1]
According to UCLA player and future Olympian Frank Lubin, Works was "more of an honorary coach" with little basketball knowledge. [8] Dick Linthicum was UCLA's first All-American in any sport, earning selections in 1931 and 1932. [9] Wilbur Johns was the UCLA basketball head coach from 1939 to 1948, guiding the Bruins to a 93–120 record.
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Starting in 1962, UCLA won 10 national titles in 12 years, including a record seven straight from 1966-73. Wooden's 10 national titles are twice as many as the next coach on the all-time list ...
The following year, his team went to the Final Four. Cronin arrived at UCLA having previously served as the head coach at the University of Cincinnati for 13 seasons. Cronin had been named the coach of the year of the American Athletic Conference (AAC) in 2014 and guided Bearcats' program to nine straight NCAA tournament appearances (through ...
In the Final Four at Louisville, Kentucky, UCLA had a two-point lead at halftime over #11 Drake and won 85–82 to advance to the championship game against sixth-ranked Purdue. Wooden graduated from Purdue in 1932, after earning All-American honors as a guard on the school's basketball team that he captained during his junior and senior years.
The 1955–56 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1955–56 NCAA men's basketball season and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. The Bruins were led by eight year head coach John Wooden. They finished the regular season with a record of 22–6 and won the PCC regular ...
The 1969–70 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won its fourth consecutive NCAA National Basketball Championship, the sixth in seven years under head coach John Wooden, [1] despite the departure of Lew Alcindor to the NBA, with a win over Jacksonville. [2] The team was honored forty years later in 2010, at halftime of the UCLA-Oregon game on ...