Stan Watts

For the artist, see Stanley J. Watts.

Stan Watts
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Basketball
Born	(1911-08-30)August 30, 1911 Murray, Utah
Died	April 6, 2000(2000-04-06) (aged 88)
Alma mater	BYU
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1949–1972	BYU
Head coaching record
Overall	371–254 (.594)
Tournaments	NCAA: 4-10 (.286) NIT: 6-2 (.750)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2x NIT Champion (1951, 1966) 3x MSC Champion (1950, 1951, 1957) 5x WAC Champion (1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972)

Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1986 (profile)
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006

Stanley H. Watts (August 30, 1911 – April 6, 2000) was a college men's basketball coach, well known for coaching Brigham Young University to a 372-254 record between 1949 and 1972. The Murray, Utah native was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on May 6, 1986.

Stan Watts became the sixth coach in history to win 100 games in his first five years, and on and off the court was a man of integrity and sportsmanship. Watts' BYU teams were disciplined and well-drilled units that favored an up-tempo style and relentless defensive pressure. In 23 seasons, Watts compiled a 371-254 (.594) record and established a strong basketball tradition and a national athletic identity for the Mormon school. His Cougars teams won eight conference titles, appeared in 11 postseason tournaments and captured the 1951 and 1966 National Invitation Tournament championships. Highly respected by his peers for his dedication to coaching and his community, Watts began his coaching career in 1938 at Millard High, then coached Dixie Junior College from 1941 to 1945 and Jordan High from 1945 to 1947. Watts was chosen as BYU's freshman coach in 1947 and inherited the varsity team in 1949. A master teacher, Watts' highly acclaimed book, Developing an Offensive Attack in Basketball (1958), became a standard manual on the fast break offense. From 1965 to 1966, Watts' "Runnin' Cougars" scored more than 100 points 21 times and at least 95 points 32 times. Watts' teaching skills were in constant demand at coaching clinics across the nation and in Europe, the Far East and South Africa. Watts served his coaching organization, the NABC, on numerous committees. He served on the Board of Directors from 1958 to 1968 and as president in 1970.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
BYU Cougars (Mountain States Conference) (1949–1962)
1949–50	BYU	22-12	14-6	1st	NCAA Elite 8
1950–51	BYU	28-9	15-5	1st	NCAA Eilte 8 NIT Champions
1951–52	BYU	14-10	9-5	T-2nd
1952–53	BYU	22-8	11-3	2nd	NIT 1st Round
1953–54	BYU	18-11	9-5	3rd	NIT 1st Round
1954–55	BYU	13-13	10-4	2nd
1955–56	BYU	18-8	10-4	2nd
1956–57	BYU	19-9	11-3	1st	NCAA Sweet 16
1957–58	BYU	13-13	9-5	T-2nd
1958–59	BYU	15-11	8-6	4th
1959–60	BYU	8-17	5-9	5th
1960–61	BYU	15-11	9-5	3rd
1961–62	BYU	10-16	5-9	T-4th
BYU Cougars (Western Athletic Conference) (1962–1972)
1962–63	BYU	12-14	6-4	2nd
1963–64	BYU	13-12	5-5	3rd
1964–65	BYU	21-7	8-2	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
1965–66	BYU	20-5	6-4	2nd	NIT Champions
1966–67	BYU	14-10	8-2	T-1st
1967–68	BYU	13-12	4-6	T-4th
1968–69	BYU	16-12	6-4	T-1st	NCAA 1st Round
1969–70	BYU	8-18	4-10	7th
1970–71	BYU	18-11	10-4	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
1971–72	BYU	21-5	12-2	1st	NCAA 1st Round
BYU:		371-254	194-112
Total:		371-254
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

BYU Cougars head baseball coaches

Fred Bennion (1909)
No team (1910)
Fred Bennion (1911–1912)
No team (1913)
Dell Webb (1914–1915)
No team (1916–1917)
E. L. Roberts (1918)
No team (1919)
E. L. Roberts (1920)
No team (1921–1947)
Stan Watts (1948)
Wayne Soffe (1949–1951)
Dave Crowton (1952–1955)
Wayne Tucker (1956)
Jay VanNoy (1957–1959)
Glen Tuckett (1960–1976)
Gary Pullins (1977–1999)
Vance Law (2000–2012)
Mike Littlewood (2013– )

BYU Cougars men's basketball head coaches

W. A. Colton (1903)
Coach unknown (1903–1905)
Clayton Teetzel (1906–1908)
Fred Bennion (1908–1910)
Henry Rose (1911)
E. L. Roberts (1912–1920)
Alvin Twitchell (1920–1925)
E. L. Roberts (1926–1928)
G. Ott Romney (1928–1935)
Eddie Kimball (1935–1936)
Fred Dixon (1936–1938)
Eddie Kimball (1938–1941)
Floyd Millet (1941–1949)
Stan Watts (1949–1972)
Glenn Potter (1972–1975)
Frank Arnold (1975–1983)
LaDell Andersen (1983–1989)
Roger Reid (1989–1997)
Tony Ingle # (1997)
Steve Cleveland (1997–2005)
Dave Rose (2005– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

BYU Cougars athletic directors

G. Ott Romney (1928–1936) Eddie Kimball (1937–1963) Floyd Millet (1963–1970) Stan Watts (1970–1976) Lu Wallace (women's, 1972–1995) Glen Tuckett (1976–1993) Clayne Jensen (1993–1995) Rondo Fehlberg (1995–1999) Elaine Michaelis (women's, 1995–2004) Val Hale (1999–2004) Tom Holmoe (2005– )

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1986

Players	Billy Cunningham Tom Heinsohn

Coaches	Red Holzman Fred Taylor Stan Watts

Referees	Red Mihalik

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (100)

Alexeeva Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Calipari Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gaze Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hatchell Heinsohn Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Izzo Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Leonard Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire McLendon Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nelson Nikolić Novosel Olson Pitino Ramsay Richardson Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Tarkanian Taylor Teague Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens G. Williams R. Williams Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players Italics indicates those who are also inducted as contributors.

Contributors (67)

Abbott Barksdale Bee Biasone H. Brown W. Brown Bunn Buss Clifton Colangelo Cooper Davidson Douglas Duer Embry Fagan Fisher Fleisher Gavitt Gottlieb Granik Gulick Harrison Hearn Henderson Hepp Hickox Hinkle Irish Jones Kennedy Knight Lemon Liston Lloyd McLendon Mokray Morgan Morgenweck Naismith Newell Newton J. O'Brien L. O'Brien Olsen Podoloff Porter Raveling Reid Reinsdorf Ripley Sanders Saperstein Schabinger St. John Stagg Stanković Steitz Stern Taylor Tower Trester Vitale Wells Wilke Winter Zollner

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches.

Players (174)

Guards	Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Dampier Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Guerin Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Isaacs Iverson Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Marčiulionis Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers R. Miller Monroe Murphy Page Payton Petrović Phillip Posey Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Staley Steinmetz Stockton Swoopes Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West White Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards	Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley R. Brown Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Haywood Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson King Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Pettit Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman Walker White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Beaty Bellamy Chamberlain Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Leslie Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Mourning Murphy Mutombo Olajuwon O'Neal Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton Yao

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (16)

Bavetta Enright Garretson Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nichols Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

Teams (10)

1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team All American Red Heads Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters Immaculata College New York Renaissance Original Celtics Texas Western

Awards

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