John Patrick Beilein is an American professional basketball coach who currently serves as the Senior Player Development Advisor for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association.
42 Facts About John Beilein
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John Beilein has won 754 career games at four-year universities and 829 games altogether, including those at the junior college level.
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John Beilein 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.
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John Beilein is known for his attention to details, focus on fundamentals and knack for developing under-the-radar players.
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John Beilein is widely respected in collegiate sports as one of the cleanest and most rule-abiding coaches.
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John Beilein turned around the school's losing program and helped it earn two National Invitation Tournament bids and one NCAA tournament appearance in five years.
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John Beilein moved on to West Virginia, where his teams reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament twice, and twice went to the NIT, including one championship.
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John Beilein is the eighth of nine children of a millworker and an apple farmer.
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John Beilein received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1975.
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John Beilein went on to earn a Master of Science degree in education from Niagara University in 1981.
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John Beilein has never served as an assistant coach; he has held head-coaching positions throughout his career.
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John Beilein first applied to coach Division I basketball at Canisius in 1987, but he was not hired.
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In John Beilein's final season at Le Moyne, the team was an independent team unaffiliated with a conference.
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John Beilein was inducted into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame on September 24,2019, for his tenure and success with the program.
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In 1997, John Beilein moved to become the coach of the Richmond Spiders.
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John Beilein won his fourth Coach of the Year award that season.
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John Beilein was selected for the award over Charlie Woollum of William and Mary who beat John Beilein for the CAA coach of the year award.
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The victory over West Virginia is credited with being a large part of why John Beilein was eventually hired at West Virginia.
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The day before the championship game, John Beilein was announced as one of three finalists for the Michigan Wolverines' head coaching job.
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John Beilein replaced Tommy Amaker, who was fired after failing to reach the NCAA Tournament in his six seasons.
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John Beilein inherited a Big Ten Conference team that was in the final year of a scholarship reduction due to the involvement of former players in the Ed Martin scandal, in which NCAA rules had been violated.
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Three days later, John Beilein's Wolverines earned a bid to the 2009 NCAA tournament, the school's first appearance in 11 years.
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Michigan won by its third-largest margin in its NCAA tournament history, and the game marked the ninth straight time that John Beilein led a team to victory in its first game of a postseason tournament.
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The win clinched John Beilein's first winning record in Big Ten play.
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John Beilein was selected as an assistant coach for the 2013 World University Games.
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John Beilein was one of ten finalists for the USBWA's Henry Iba Award for Coach of the Year.
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John Beilein was named one of five finalists for the Naismith College Coach of the Year and one of fifteen finalists for the Jim Phelan Award.
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On March 22 in Michigan's second game of the 2014 NCAA tournament, against Texas, John Beilein earned his 700th career win to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season.
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Beilein became the second coach in program history to reach 200 wins with the Wolverines, joining Johnny Orr, who was the all-time leader with 209 until Beilein surpassed him with a win over Illinois on March 9,2017 at the 2017 Big Ten tournament.
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In June 2017, John Beilein's title was renamed as the David and Meredith Kaplan Men's Basketball Head Coach at Michigan.
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On May 13,2019, John Beilein was named head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association, signing a five-year contract.
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John Beilein was criticized for bringing his college game coaching style to the pros, including too much of an emphasis on fundamentals and an offense not suited to the NBA.
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On February 19,2020, John Beilein resigned as the head coach of the Cavaliers, with the team stating that he "will be reassigned to a different role within the organization".
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John Beilein became the third first-year head coach since 1990, after Jerry Tarkanian of the Spurs and Randy Ayers of the 76ers, to coach the season opener without completing the season.
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In Fall 2020, John Beilein taught a course at Michigan titled "Coaching as Leading and Leading as Coaching" in the School of Education.
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John Beilein serves as a college basketball analyst on the Big Ten Network.
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On June 2,2021, the Detroit Pistons appointed John Beilein to be the senior advisor for player development.
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John Beilein modeled his offense from the Princeton system, which emphasizes constant motion, back-door cuts, picks on and off the ball, and precise shooting.
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John Beilein is married to Kathleen John Beilein since 1978.
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John Beilein 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.
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When Patrick was a highly recruited high school basketball player, John Beilein 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.
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John Beilein had to follow recruiting rules when visiting his son at a basketball camp.