# List of Michigan Wolverines men's basketball head coaches

The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball program is a college basketball team that represents the University of Michigan. The team plays at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). They compete in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA, where they have been since 1917. They play their home games at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, named after Fritz Crisler, a former head football coach at Michigan (1938–1947).
The men's team has had 18 head coaches in its history. The team has played in over 2,800 games over 109 seasons of collegiate play from the 1908–09 season to the present (excluding 1910 to 1917, when the Wolverines did not play due to low attendance).
Steve Fisher is the first and only head coach to have led the team to an NCAA Tournament championship, doing so in 1989. He also led the team to six other NCAA Tournament appearances, including two runner-up finishes in 1992 and 1993, but the '92 and '93 Final Fours were later vacated as punishment for the Ed Martin scandal. Before Fisher, Bill Frieder had led the team to four consecutive tournament appearances. Eight coaches have led the team to Big Ten Regular Season Championships: E. J. Mather, George Veenker, Ozzie Cowles, Dave Strack, Johnny Orr, Frieder, John Beilein and Juwan Howard. Four coaches have led the team to a Big Ten tournament championships: Brian Ellerbe, Beilein and Dusty May. Beilein was the winningest head coach for the team, where he led the team to two Big Ten Regular Season Championships in 2012 and 2014 and two Big Ten tournament Championships in 2017 and 2018. He has also led the team to nine NCAA tournament appearances, including eight times in nine years from 2011–19. During these appearances, he led the team to two runner-up finishes in the tournament in 2013 and 2018, two Elite Eight appearances in 2014 and 2018, and three consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance from 2017–19. Juwan Howard led the Wolverines to a 2021 Big Ten Conference Championship and an Elite Eight, as well as Michigan’s fifth consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2022 (NCAA tournament cancellation in 2020). Dusty May won the 2025 Big Ten tournament championship in his first season.

## List of coaches

| | | Overall | Overall | Conference | Conference | |
| Coach | Years | Record | Pct. | Record | Pct. | Note |
| George D. Corneal | 1908–09 | 1–4 | .200 | | | |
| Elmer Mitchell | 1917–19 | 22–20 | .524 | 5–15 | .250 | |
| E. J. Mather | 1919–28 | 108–53 | .671 | 64–43 | .598 | 3 Western (Big Nine) Conference Championships (1921, 1926, 1927) |
| George Veenker | 1928–31 | 35–12 | .745 | 24–10 | .706 | 1929 Western (Big Nine) Conference Championship |
| Frank Cappon | 1931–38 | 78–57 | .578 | 44–40 | .524 | |
| Bennie Oosterbaan | 1938–46 | 81–72 | .529 | 40–59 | .404 | |
| Osborne Cowles | 1946–48 | 28–14 | .667 | 16–8 | .667 | 1948 Western (Big Nine) Conference Championship |
| Ernest McCoy | 1948–52 | 40–47 | .460 | 18–34 | .346 | |
| William Perigo | 1952–60 | 78–100 | .438 | 38–78 | .328 | |
| Dave Strack | 1960–68 | 113–89 | .559 | 58–54 | .518 | 3 Big Ten Conference Championships (1964, 1965, 1966), 2 Final Fours (1964, 1965) |
| Johnny Orr | 1968–80 | 209–113 | .649 | 120–72 | .625 | 2 Big Ten Conference Championships (1974, 1977), 1976 Final Four |
| Bill Frieder | 1980–89 | 191–87 | .687 | 98–64 | .605 | 1984 National Invitation Tournament Championship, 2 Big Ten Conference Championships (1985, 1986) |
| Steve Fisher | 1989–97 | 184*–82* (108–53) | .692* (.671) | 88*–56* (54–36) | .611* (.600) | 1989 NCAA Tournament Championship, 3 Final Fours (1989, 1992*, 1993*), 1997 National Invitation Tournament Championship* |
| Brian Ellerbe | 1997–2001 | 62*–60* (25–32) | .508* (.439) | 26*–38* (10–22) | .406* (.313) | 1998 Big Ten Tournament Championship* |
| Tommy Amaker | 2001–07 | 109–83 | .563 | 43–53 | .448 | 2004 National Invitation Tournament Championship |
| John Beilein | 2007–19 | 278–150 | .650 | 126–92 | .578 | 2 Big Ten Conference Championships (2012, 2014), 2 Big Ten Tournament Championships (2017, 2018), 2 Final Fours (2013, 2018) |
| Juwan Howard | 2019–2024 | 87–72 | .547 | 49–48 | .505 | 2021 Big Ten Conference Championship |
| Dusty May | 2024–present | 25–9 | .735 | 14–6 | .700 | 2025 Big Ten Tournament Championship |
| Total | 1908–present | 1729–1123* (1616–1067) | .606* (.602) | 871*–769* (821–733) | .531* (.528) | |
* Vacated by NCAA