Ben Howland

Alma Mater:

Class of:

Hometown:

Santa Barbara, CA and Cerritos, CA

High School:

Dos Pueblos High School

Named national coach of the year by AP, Naismith and USBWA in 2002
Guided UCLA to three consecutive Final Fours from 2006 through 2008
Won four conference tournament championships (1998 in Big Sky with Northern Arizona, 2003 in Big East with Pittsburgh plus 2006 and 2008 in Pacific-10 with UCLA)
Assistant coach at Gonzaga under Jay Hillock for one season in 1981-82, and at UC Santa Barbara under Jerry Pimm for 12 seasons from 1982-83 through 1993-94
Major-college career playing statistics under Neil McCarthy (9 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 47.4 FG%, 74.8 FT%)
Final Top 20 Rankings (six: AP/USA)--2002 (9/9), 2003 (4/8), 2006 (T7/2), 2007 (4/3), 2008 (3/4) and 2009 (18/18)
All-Americans (four): Pittsburgh's Brandin Knight (2002) and UCLA's Arron Afflalo (2007), Darren Collison (2008 and 2009) and Kevin Love (2008).

Record:

Season	School	Overall	League	Finish	Conference (Division)	Postseason (Record)
1994-95	Northern Arizona	9-17	4-10	7th	Big Sky	DNP
1995-96	Northern Arizona	7-19	3-11	7th	Big Sky	DNP
1996-97	Northern Arizona	21-7	14-2	1st	Big Sky	NIT (0-1)
1997-98	Northern Arizona	21-8	13-3	1st	Big Sky	NCAA (0-1)
1998-99	Northern Arizona	21-8	12-4	2nd	Big Sky	DNP
1999-00	Pittsburgh	13-15	5-11	11th	Big East	DNP
2000-01	Pittsburgh	19-14	7-9	5th	Big East (West)	NIT (1-1)
2001-02	Pittsburgh	29-6	13-3	1st	Big East (West)	NCAA (2-1)
2002-03	Pittsburgh	28-5	13-3	1st	Big East	NCAA (2-1)
2003-04	UCLA	11-17	7-11	T-7th	Pacific-10	DNP
2004-05	UCLA	18-11	11-7	T-3rd	Pacific-10	NCAA (0-1)
2005-06	UCLA	32-7	14-4	1st	Pacific-10	NCAA (5-1)
2006-07	UCLA	30-6	15-3	1st	Pacific-10	NCAA (4-1)
2007-08	UCLA	35-4	16-2	1st	Pacific-10	NCAA (4-1)
2008-09	UCLA	26-9	13-5	2nd	Pacific-10	NCAA (1-1)
2009-10	UCLA	14-18	8-10	T-5th	Pacific-10	DNP
2010-11	UCLA
2011-12	UCLA

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