Head coach

Mike Poeta

Head coach · Illinois · NCAA tournaments 2022–2025 (4)

Mike Poeta was head coach of Illinois at four NCAA championships, 2022–2025. Poeta's teams finished in the top ten once. Poeta's wrestlers won one individual title and earned three All-American places.

Team
0team titles
0top-four finishes
1top-ten finish
Individual
1individual title
3All-Americans
20tournament entries
11wrestlers
41wins
38losses
6wins by fall

By school

Mike Poeta's NCAA tournament totals by school
SchoolNCAA tournamentsTeam titlesTop fourTop tenChampionsAll-AmericansEntriesWrestlersRecordFalls
Illinois2022–2025 (4)00113201141–386

    As a wrestler

    Michael Poeta wrestled for Illinois at four NCAA championships, 2006–2009, and went 14–5. Poeta placed third at 157 lb in 2007, and second at 157 lb in 2008 and 2009.

    Michael Poeta NCAA tournament career, one row per year
    YearSchoolWeightSeedFinishW–LMatches
    2009Illinois15722nd4–1
    2008Illinois15722nd3–1
    2007Illinois15753rd5–1
    2006Illinois1659Lost consolation round 42–2

    Michael Poeta's full wrestler record, every bout →

    How these are counted

    • NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Mike Poeta 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: “Mike Poeta, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_78e9ebbff4d64193/mike-poeta/