Head coach
Dan Gable
Dan Gable was head coach of Iowa at 21 NCAA championships, 1977–1997. Gable's teams won 15 official NCAA team titles and finished in the top four 20 times. Gable's wrestlers won 44 individual titles and earned 151 All-American places.
By school
| School | NCAA tournaments | Team titles | Top four | Top ten | Champions | All-Americans | Entries | Wrestlers | Record | Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 1977–1997 (21) | 15 | 20 | 21 | 44 | 151 | 190 | 78 | 759–237 | 133 |
As a wrestler
Dan Gable wrestled for Iowa State at three NCAA championships, 1968–1970, and went 16–1. Gable won two titles, at 130 lb in 1968 and at 137 lb in 1969, and placed second at 142 lb in 1970.
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Iowa State | 142 | 1 | 2nd | 5–1 | 6 bouts |
| 1969 | Iowa State | 137 | 1 | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 1968 | Iowa State | 130 | 2 | 1st | 6–0 | 6 bouts |
Dan Gable's full wrestler record, every bout →
Coach and wrestler matched from Dan Gable, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Bio, paragraph sentence beginning "At Iowa State, he captured three Big Eight titles").
How these are counted
- NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Dan Gable 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: “Dan Gable, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_924e514cfe6c4e4d/dan-gable/