Head coach
Mike Sager
Mike Sager was head coach of Colorado, Cincinnati (OH) and Marshall (WV) at nine NCAA championships, 1972–1980. Sager's wrestlers earned two All-American places.
By school
| School | NCAA tournaments | Team titles | Top four | Top ten | Champions | All-Americans | Entries | Wrestlers | Record | Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 1975–1980 (6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 21–27 | 4 |
| Cincinnati (OH) | 1973–1974 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1–4 | 0 |
| Marshall (WV) | 1972 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0–1 | 0 |
As a wrestler
Mike Sager wrestled for Oklahoma at three NCAA championships, 1964–1966, and went 12–3. Sager won the title at 137 lb in 1964 and placed fifth at 137 lb in 1965 and second at 137 lb in 1966.
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Oklahoma | 137 | 4 | 2nd | 3–1 | 4 bouts |
| 1965 | Oklahoma | 137 | 4 | 5th | 4–2 | 6 bouts |
| 1964 | Oklahoma | 137 | No seed listed | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
Mike Sager's full wrestler record, every bout →
Coach and wrestler matched from C.U. names new coach, Columbia Missourian (United Press International) (Single-page newspaper clipping, UPI dispatch datelined BOULDER, Colo.; the last three paragraphs (the third paragraph breaks across the two columns at 'Ohio University and Grant High / in Tulsa, Okla.'). The first paragraph reads: "The University of Colorado, trying to build its wrestling program into a Big Eight contender, has named Mike Sager, a former NCAA wrestling champion at Oklahoma, as its head coach." Read visually from a rendered image; the PDF's own OCR text layer is garbled.).
How these are counted
- NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Mike Sager 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 Sager, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_bd209634c1e64916/mike-sager/