Ted Owens (basketball)

Ted Owens is an American college basketball coach. He was the coach of the University of Kansas men's basketball team from 1964 to 1983. He is the fourth-winningest coach in Jayhawks basketball history.[1]

Owens' overall Kansas record was 348-182 (.657), and his Big Eight Conference record was 170-96 (.639). In Owens' tenure at KU, he won six Big Eight Conference titles and advanced to the NCAA tournament seven times. His 1971 and 1974 teams made it to the Final Four, and in 1968 the Jayhawks lost to Dayton in the finals of the National Invitation Tournament. Owens was named Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year five times and was Named National Coach of the Year in 1978 by Basketball Weekly. He coached five All-Americans: Jo Jo White, Darnell Valentine, Dave Robisch, Bud Stallworth and Walt Wesley. He was fired following the 1982-83 season after the Jayhawks posted back-to-back losing seasons. Kansas has not suffered a losing season since, and has only missed the NCAA tournament once since then, in 1988-89 when the program was on probation for recruiting violations committed by Owens' successor, Larry Brown.

A three-year letterman at the University of Oklahoma (1949–51), Owens honed his coaching skills as head coach at Cameron State Junior College in Lawton, Oklahoma. In four seasons his teams never won fewer than 20 games and three times advanced to the NJCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship semifinals. At Cameron, he amassed a 93-24 record and boasted four junior college All-Americans.

Owens then accepted an assistant's position under Dick Harp in 1960, and was promoted to head coach when Harp resigned following the 1963-64 season.

Owens had a brief stint of coaching in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv at the 1989-90 season, in which he was sacked in February 1990.

Owens was inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame on August 3, 2009.

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight) (1964–1983)
1964-1965 Kansas 17-8 9-5 2nd
1965-1966 Kansas 23-4 13-1 1st NCAA Elite 8
1966-1967 Kansas 23-4 13-1 1st NCAA 2nd Round/Midwest 3rd Place
1967-1968 Kansas 22-8 10-4 2nd NIT Final
1968-1969 Kansas 20-7 9-5 T-2nd NIT 1st Round
1969-1970 Kansas 17-9 8-6 2nd
1970-1971 Kansas 27-3 14-0 1st NCAA Final 4
1971-1972 Kansas 11-15 7-7 T-4th
1972-1973 Kansas 8-18 4-10 T-6th
1973-1974 Kansas 23-7 13-1 1st NCAA Final 4
1974-1975 Kansas 19-8 11-3 1st NCAA 1st Round
1975-1976 Kansas 13-13 6-8 T-4th
1976-1977 Kansas 18-10 8-6 4th
1977-1978 Kansas 24-5 13-1 1st NCAA 1st Round
1978-1979 Kansas 18-11 8-6 T-2nd
1979-1980 Kansas 15-14 7-7 T-4th
1980-1981 Kansas 24-8 9-5 T-2nd NCAA Sweet 16
1981-1982 Kansas 13-14 4-10 7th
1982-1983 Kansas 13-16 4-10 T-6th
Kansas: 348-182 170-96
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (Midwestern City) (1985–1987)
1985-1986 Oral Roberts 10-19 5-7 5th
1986-1987 Oral Roberts 11-17 5-7 T-5th
Oral Roberts: 21-36 10-14
Total: 369-218

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Coaching tree

Ted Owens' coaching tree.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "KU Men's Basketball Coaches".

External links