John Beilein is an American basketball and current head coach of Cleveland Cavaliers!
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about him!
- His full name is John Patrick Beilein
- He was born on February 5, 1953
- He is an American basketball coach
- And current head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers
- He has previously coached the Michigan Wolverines
- From 2007 to 2019
- West Virginia Mountaineers
- From 2002 to 2007
- Richmond Spiders from 1997 to 2002
- Canisius Golden Griffins
- From 1992 to 1997
- He coached all the teams above in NCAA Division I
- As well as Le Moyne College
- From 1983 to 1992
- Nazareth College
- From 1982 to 1983
- And Erie Community College
- From 1978 to 1982
- John Beilein has won 754 career games
- At four-year universities
- And 829 games altogether
- Including those at the junior college level
- Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels
- These are junior college, NCAA Division III, NCAA Division II, and NCAA Division I
- Beilein is one of only six active Division I coaches with 700 or more career wins
- He has been recognized as conference coach of the year five times
- In 1981 at Erie Community College
- In 1988 at LeMoyne
- In 1994 at Canisius
- In 1998 at Richmond
- And in 2014 at Michigan
- In addition, Beilein was the seventh of only ten coaches to have taken four different schools to the NCAA Division I Tournament
- Beilein’s first Division I head coaching position was at Canisius
- A hometown school of which he had been a fan
- He turned around the school’s losing program and helped it earn two National Invitation Tournament (NIT) bids
- And one NCAA Tournament appearance in five years
- Next, at Richmond, he reached the NCAA Tournament once
- And NIT twice in five years
- He moved on to West Virginia
- There his teams reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament twice
- And also twice went to the NIT
- Including one championship
- At Michigan, he has won two Big Ten regular-season championships
- Two Big Ten Tournament titles
- And in the NCAA Tournament has twice advanced as far as the national championship game
- He has a 26 – 13 career record in the NCAA tournament
- With championship game appearances in 2013 and 2018
- As well as a 13 – 6 record in the NIT
- Beilein married the former Kathleen Griffin in 1978
- The Beileins have three sons
- Patrick, who played for his father at WVU and is the current head basketball coach at Niagara University
- Mark, a former football player at Richmond and WVU grad who currently works for Alro Steel
- And Andrew, a Michigan grad who currently works for the Business Roundtable in Washington, D.C.
- And a daughter, Seana Hendricks
- Patrick was the 2002 Virginia Independent Schools Division I Player of the Year
- He had intended to play at Richmond with his father
- And instead went to West Virginia when his father moved there
- Patrick was a 2008-2009 season graduate assistant coach at University of Michigan
- He has since held posts as assistant coach at Dartmouth, Director of Men’s Basketball Operations at Bradley University, and head coach of West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Before his current role at Le Moyne
- When Patrick was a highly recruited high school basketball player, John was restricted by NCAA rules from some normal behaviors regarding his son
- Such as giving his son’s teammates a ride home from practice, talking with his son at a basketball camp or discussing his son’s abilities with news media
- Because the interactions of college coaches with recruits are restricted
- The relevant NCAA rules for recruiting (Bylaw article 13) are quite extensive
- Beilein had to follow recruiting rules when visiting his son at a basketball camp
- According to rule 13.12.1.3 coaches wishing to attend a camp as observers must comply with appropriate recruiting contact and evaluation periods
- According to 13.02.3, a contact includes any face-to-face encounter between a prospective student-athlete
- And an institutional staff member or athletics representative during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting
- In short, talking to coaches not employed by a camp is not allowed during the camp
- Which left Beilein unable to offer his son milk money
