Jerry Tarkanian

Alma Mater: 
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Hometown: 
Euclid, OH
  • UPI national coach of the year in 1983
  • Coach of 1990 NCAA champion
  • Reached NCAA Final Four with UNLV four times (1977, 1987, 1990 and 1991)
  • Coach of eight conference tournament champions--seven in Big West (1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991 with UNLV) and one in Western Athletic (2000 with Fresno State)
  • Guided UNLV to nation's best record among more than 70 independent schools in 1977
  • UNLV's all-time winningest coach
  • Compiled a 9-11 record (.450) in brief stint with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs at the start of 1992-93 season
  • Compiled a 212-26 record (.891) in seven seasons as coach for two California community colleges--145-22 (.868) at Pasadena City in five seasons from 1961-62 through 1965-66 and 67-4 (.944) at Riverside City in two seasons in 1966-67 and 1967-68
  • College career playing statistics under Clark Van Galder and Bill Vandenburgh (2 ppg, 60 FT%)
  • Final Division I Top 20 Rankings (17: AP/UPI/USA)--1970 (19/15), 1971 (16/14), 1972 (5/6), 1973 (3/3), 1975 (17/14), 1976 (3/4), 1977 (4/6), 1983 (6/6/18), 1984 (13/13/10), 1985 (9/9/20), 1986 (11/10/13), 1987 (1/1/2), 1988 (12/11/22), 1989 (15/14/9), 1990 (2/2/1), 1991 (1/1/2) and 1992 (7/NR/NR)
  • Final Division II Top 20 Rankings (one)--1969 (11)
  • All-Americans (seven): Long Beach State's Ed Ratleff (1972 and 1973), UNLV's Stacey Augmon (1991), Armon Gilliam (1987), Sidney Green (1983), Larry Johnson (1990 and 1991) and Eddie Owens (1977) and Fresno State's Courtney Alexander (2000).
Record: 

Season

School

Overall

League

Finish

Conference (Division)

Postseason (Record)

1968-69

Long Beach State

23-3

11-1

1st

CCAA

DNP

1969-70

Long Beach State

24-5

10-0

1st

PCAA

NCAA (1-2)

1970-71

Long Beach State

24-5

10-0

1st

PCAA

NCAA (2-1)

1971-72

Long Beach State

25-4

10-2

1st

PCAA

NCAA (2-1)

1972-73

Long Beach State

26-3

10-2

1st

PCAA

NCAA (2-1)

1973-74

UNLV

20-6

10-4

3rd

WCAC

DNP

1974-75

UNLV

24-5

13-1

1st

WCAC

NCAA (2-1)

1975-76

UNLV

29-2

NCAA (1-1)

1976-77

UNLV

29-3

NCAA (4-1)

1977-78

UNLV

20-8

Probation

1978-79

UNLV

21-8

Probation

1979-80

UNLV

23-9

NIT (3-2)

1980-81

UNLV

16-12

DNP

1981-82

UNLV

20-10

NIT (1-1)

1982-83

UNLV

28-3

15-1

1st

PCAA

NCAA (0-1)

1983-84

UNLV

29-6

16-2

1st

PCAA

NCAA (2-1)

1984-85

UNLV

28-4

17-1

1st

PCAA

NCAA (1-1)

1985-86

UNLV

33-5

16-2

1st

PCAA

NCAA (2-1)

1986-87

UNLV

37-2

18-0

1st

PCAA

NCAA (4-1)

1987-88

UNLV

28-6

15-3

1st

PCAA

NCAA (1-1)

1988-89

UNLV

29-8

16-2

1st

Big West

NCAA (3-1)

1989-90

UNLV

35-5

16-2

T-1st

Big West

NCAA (6-0)

1990-91

UNLV

34-1

18-0

1st

Big West

NCAA (4-1)

1991-92

UNLV

26-2

18-0

1st

Big West

Probation

1995-96

Fresno State

22-11

13-5

3rd

WAC

NIT (2-1)

1996-97

Fresno State

20-12

12-4

T-1st

WAC (Pacific)

NIT (0-1)

1997-98

Fresno State

21-13

10-4

2nd

WAC (Pacific)

NIT (3-2)

1998-99

Fresno State

21-12

9-5

T-2nd

WAC (Pacific)

NIT (0-1)

1999-00

Fresno State

24-10

11-3

2nd

WAC

NCAA (0-1)

2000-01

Fresno State

26-7

13-3

1st

WAC

NCAA (1-1)

2001-02

Fresno State

19-15

9-9

T-5th

WAC

NIT (0-1)

NOTE: Vacated nine NCAA Tournament games with Long Beach State from f1971 through 1973 and a total of 49 victories with Fresno State in 1999 (20), 2000 (12 plus 0-1 NCAA playoff record) and 2001 (17).