Head coach
Stan Abel
Stan Abel was head coach of Oklahoma and Cincinnati (OH) at 22 NCAA championships, 1972–1993. Abel's teams won one official NCAA team title and finished in the top four nine times. Abel's wrestlers won 15 individual titles and earned 76 All-American places.
By school
| School | NCAA tournaments | Team titles | Top four | Top ten | Champions | All-Americans | Entries | Wrestlers | Record | Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 1973–1993 (21) | 1 | 9 | 17 | 15 | 76 | 178 | 83 | 451–263 | 62 |
| Cincinnati (OH) | 1972 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1–3 | 0 |
As a wrestler
Stan Abel wrestled for Oklahoma at three NCAA championships, 1958–1960, and went 13–1. Abel won two titles at 130 lb in 1959 and 1960 and placed third at 130 lb in 1958.
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Oklahoma | 130 | 1 | 1st | 4–0 | 4 bouts |
| 1959 | Oklahoma | 130 | 1 | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 1958 | Oklahoma | 130 | No seed listed | 3rd | 4–1 | 5 bouts |
Stan Abel's full wrestler record, every bout →
Coach and wrestler matched from Stan Abel, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Biography, paragraph beginning "As a wrestler, he was a three-time collegiate All-American").
How these are counted
- NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Stan Abel 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: “Stan Abel, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_0e55dc5e284e4425/stan-abel/