Head coach
Bill Dotson
Bill Dotson was head coach of New Mexico and Northern Michigan at 15 NCAA championships, 1980–1998. Dotson's wrestlers earned six All-American places.
Team
0team titles
0top-four finishes
0top-ten finishes
Individual
0individual titles
6All-Americans
40tournament entries
21wrestlers
36wins
65losses
5wins by fall
By school
| School | NCAA tournaments | Team titles | Top four | Top ten | Champions | All-Americans | Entries | Wrestlers | Record | Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 1981–1998 (14) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 38 | 20 | 33–61 | 4 |
| Northern Michigan | 1980 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3–4 | 1 |
- No entrants at New Mexico: 1992–1993, 1995–1996.
As a wrestler
Bill Dotson wrestled for Northern Iowa at three NCAA championships, 1961–1963, and went 10–2. Dotson won the title at 137 lb in 1963 and placed second at 137 lb in 1962.
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Northern Iowa | 137 | 1 | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 1962 | Northern Iowa | 137 | 4 | 2nd | 4–1 | 5 bouts |
| 1961 | Northern Iowa | 147 | No seed listed | Lost round of 16 | 1–1 | 2 bouts |
Bill Dotson's full wrestler record, every bout →
Coach and wrestler matched from Bill Dotson, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Biography paragraph beginning "Bill Dotson was a two-time Iowa state champion for East Waterloo High School").
How these are counted
- NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Bill Dotson was the established head coach of a team with entrants. They are not years of employment; there were no championships in 1943–45 or 2020.
- A year inside the span with no established coach is listed but not counted. A year with two head coaches counts in full for both.
- Team titles are official NCAA titles from the published standings (1928, 1931 and 1933 have none). Top four and top ten come from the same standings.
- Entries count each wrestler once per tournament; All-Americans are counted as each era awarded them; wins and losses include forfeit, default and disqualification results; falls exclude forfeits.
- The head coach for each year, with sources, is on that year's program page. Report a correction.
Cite this page: “Bill Dotson, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_0503d925d01346c6/bill-dotson/