With 40 years of head coaching experience, 26 of those at the University of Connecticut, Jim Calhoun is one of the most successful coaches in the history of Division I men’s college basketball.
Coach Calhoun’s UConn Huskies won three national championships, an NIT championship and 17 Big East championships in his 26 years as head coach. He is one of only five Division I coaches to have won three national titles.
Coach Calhoun retired in 2012 with a career record of 873-380, and is one of only eight Division I coaches to have reached the 800-win plateau. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2006 he was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of its founding class. 26 of Coach Calhoun’s former UConn players went on to play in the NBA.
