Ben Howland College coach
Benjamin Clark Howland (born May 28, 1957) is an American college basketball coach and former player. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Northern Arizona University from 1994 to 1999, the University of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2003, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2003 to 2013. Howland became the first men's coach in college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title.Howland is among a handful of NCAA Division I coaches to take three different teams to the NCAA tournament: Northern Arizona, Pittsburgh, and UCLA. He is one of only three active coaches to compete in three consecutive Final Fours (with UCLA from 2006-2008). The other two are Tom Izzo and Mike Krzyzewski.
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overall record | 398–205 () |