David Taylor
Head coachOklahoma State, NCAA tournaments 2025–2026 (2)
NCAA championship record, 2011–2014. Regular-season results are not included.
David Taylor wrestled for Penn State at four NCAA championships, 2011–2014, and went 18–2. Taylor won two titles at 165 lb in 2012 and 2014 and placed second at 157 lb in 2011 and second at 165 lb in 2013.
NCAA career
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Penn State | 165 | 1 | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 2013 | Penn State | 165 | 2 | 2nd | 4–1 | 5 bouts |
| 2012 | Penn State | 165 | 1 | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 2011 | Penn State | 157 | 3 | 2nd | 4–1 | 5 bouts |
Every NCAA bout · 20
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 · 165 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Joe Brewster · South Dakota State | 1 | No seed listed | Fall 2:59 |
| Round of 16 | W | Jim Wilson · Stanford (CA) | 1 | 16 | Fall 6:55 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Michael Moreno · Iowa State | 1 | 8 | Fall 3:19 |
| Semifinal | W | Steven Monk · North Dakota State | 1 | 4 | MD 13–5 |
| Final | W | Tyler Caldwell · Oklahoma State | 1 | 2 | Dec 6–0 |
| 2013 · 165 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | John Michael Staudenmayer · North Carolina | 2 | No seed listed | Fall 2:52 |
| Round of 16 | W | Zachary Strickland · Appalachian State (NC) | 2 | No seed listed | Fall 2:42 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Conrad Polz · Illinois | 2 | 7 | Fall 0:24 |
| Semifinal | W | Pete Yates · Virginia Tech | 2 | 3 | Fall 3:25 |
| Final | L | Kyle Dake · Cornell (NY) | 2 | 1 | Dec 4–5 |
| 2012 · 165 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Corey Lear · Bucknell (PA) | 1 | No seed listed | Fall 1:40 |
| Round of 16 | W | Brandon Wright · Tennessee-Chattanooga | 1 | No seed listed | Fall 1:52 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Robert Kokesh · Nebraska | 1 | 8 | Fall 0:30 |
| Semifinal | W | Bekzod Abdurakhmanov · Clarion (PA) | 1 | 4 | Fall 4:44 |
| Final | W | Brandon Hatchett · Lehigh (PA) | 1 | 11 | TF 22–7 |
| 2011 · 157 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Neil Erisman · Oklahoma State | 3 | No seed listed | MD 13–2 |
| Round of 16 | W | David Bonin · Northern Iowa | 3 | No seed listed | TF 20–5 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Derek St. John · Iowa | 3 | 6 | Dec 6–3 |
| Semifinal | W | Steven Fittery · American (DC) | 3 | 2 | Dec 7–1 |
| Final | L | Bubba Jenkins · Arizona State | 3 | 4 | Fall 4:14 |
Scoring · 2012 to 2014
The scoring record begins in 2012; earlier bouts are in the table above.
The sums over the bouts in scope.
| Opponent | Round | Result | Score | Mat time | TD | E | R | NF | Stall | RT | Pts | Sheet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | A | F | A | F | A | F | A | D | C | F | A | F | A | ||||||
| 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Joe Brewster · South Dakota State | Round of 32 | W Fall | – | 2:59 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | Sheet |
| Jim Wilson · Stanford (CA) | Round of 16 | W Fall | – | 6:55 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | Sheet |
| Michael Moreno · Iowa State | Quarterfinal | W Fall | – | 3:19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| Steven Monk · North Dakota State | Semifinal | W Major decision | 13–5 | 7:00 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | Sheet |
| Tyler Caldwell · Oklahoma State | Final | W Decision | 6–0 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | Sheet |
| 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||
| John Michael Staudenmayer · North Carolina | Round of 32 | W Fall | – | 2:52 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | Sheet |
| Zachary Strickland · Appalachian State (NC) | Round of 16 | W Fall | – | 2:42 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | Sheet |
| Conrad Polz · Illinois | Quarterfinal | W Fall | – | 0:24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| Pete Yates · Virginia Tech | Semifinal | W Fall | – | 3:25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | Sheet |
| Kyle Dake · Cornell (NY) | Final | L Decision | 4–5 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Sheet |
| 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Corey Lear · Bucknell (PA) | Round of 32 | W Fall | – | 1:40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| Brandon Wright · Tennessee-Chattanooga | Round of 16 | W Fall | – | 1:52 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | Sheet |
| Robert Kokesh · Nebraska | Quarterfinal | W Fall | – | 0:30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| Bekzod Abdurakhmanov · Clarion (PA) | Semifinal | W Fall | – | 4:44 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | Sheet |
| Brandon Hatchett · Lehigh (PA) | Final | W Technical fall | 22–7 | 5:50 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | Sheet |
TD takedowns · E escapes · R reversals · NF near-fall points · Stall stalling drawn / called · RT riding-time points · Pts points; F for, A against.
How these are counted
Every figure here is counted from the scoring record, bout by bout, from the counts on each scoring sheet.
A bout counts once for each side: a wrestler's for columns are their own counts and the against columns are the opponent's; a team's are the sums over its qualifiers' bouts that year.
- Takedowns
- For: takedowns scored. Against: takedowns allowed.
- Escapes
- For: escapes. Against: escapes allowed.
- Reversals
- For: reversals. Against: reversals allowed.
- Near-fall points
- For: near-fall points. Against: near-fall points allowed.
- Stalling calls
- For: drawn, the stalling calls against the opponent. Against: called, the stalling calls against this side.
- Riding-time points
- For: riding-time points. Against: riding-time points allowed.
- Points
- For: points scored. Against: points allowed.
Points is the sum of every scoring row credited to that side, penalties and riding time included; points allowed is the opponent's sum. Cautions, penalty points and the tiebreak riding-time rows are carried in the data and shown on the bout page, not in these tables.
Statistics include only bouts whose scoring sheet is reconciled: the sheet's rows add up to every printed period total and to the scoreboard. A sheet that does not reconcile, and a bout with no wrestling, are left out, and the scoring record's hub says how many and why.
The scoring record begins in 2012, the first championship with full bout-level data: every bout's scoring sheet, not only its result. Earlier championships have their brackets and results in the record, but not their scoring sheets.
Totals are the sums over the bouts in scope. Per qualifier divides the totals by the record's qualifier count for that program and year, the same count the program page prints (team rows only). Per bout divides the totals by the bouts in scope. Per 7 min is the totals times 420 divided by the sum of the mat time, in seconds, over the bouts in scope: one pooled rate, never a mean of per-bout rates. A bout with no mat time is left out of both the numerator and the denominator of that unit, and the page says how many are left out.
Rates list wrestlers with three or more bouts; a wrestler with fewer is left out of the per-bout and per-7-minute lists.
In the articles
Cite this page: “David Taylor”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_wzkufgym5lvmzaur/david-taylor