Bo Ryan
Title	Head coach
College	Wisconsin
Sport	Basketball
Team record	167-59 (.739)
Born	December 20, 1947 (1947-12-20) (age 60)
Place of birth	Chester, Pennsylvania
Career highlights
Overall	550-162 (.772)
Championships
NCAA Men's Division III Tournament Championship (1991, 1995, 1998, 1999) Big 10 Tournament Championship (2004, 2008) Big 10 Regular Season Championship (2002, 2003, 2008)
Awards
Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (2007) Big 10 Coach of the Year (2002, 2003)
Playing career
1965–1969	Wilkes
Position	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976–1984 1984–1999 1999–2001 2001–present	Wisconsin (asst.) UW-Platteville UW-Milwaukee Wisconsin

William "Bo" Ryan (born December 20, 1947 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States) is the current head coach of the University of Wisconsin-Madison men's basketball team. Ryan is the current leader in overall winning percentage in the entire NCAA among coaches with at least twenty years of head coaching experience (including Divisions II and III). This List of colleges and universities in the United States includes colleges and universities in the U.S. that grant four-year baccalaureate and/or post-graduate masters and doctorate degrees. ... The Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. ... This article is about the sport. ... is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population 36,854 at the 2000 census. ... The NCAA holds an annual tournament to determine the Division III Mens Basketball Championship. ... For other uses of the term Big Ten see Big Ten (disambiguation). ... For other uses of the term Big Ten see Big Ten (disambiguation). ... The Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award honors the active Division I basketball coach who has made the most significant positive contributions to his sport during the preceding year. ... For other uses of the term Big Ten see Big Ten (disambiguation). ... Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... The head coach in sports coaching is the coach who is in charge of the other coaches. ... The Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. ... is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population 36,854 at the 2000 census. ... The Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. ... NCAA redirects here. ...

Playing career

Bo Ryan began playing basketball at a very young age. His father, Butch Ryan, coached basketball to under-privileged children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Butch Ryan taught his son all the skills to be a successful point guard, generally the position of the team leader. With the skills Ryan had learned he became a star basketball player, leading the team to a 25-1 record in his senior year. Ryan lettered in football, basketball and baseball, and was President of his class. Future St. Joseph's University and Orlando Magic star Jameer Nelson surpassed most of Ryan's records that had stood for nearly thirty years. After high school, Ryan starred as a point guard at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His love for the game drove him to remain involved with the sport, choosing to delve into the coaching profession. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Saint Josephs University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ... The Orlando Magic is a professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. ... Jameer Nelson (born February 9, 1982 in Chester, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the NBA. He is most famous for being one of the most popular stars of mens college basketball in the early 2000s, representing Saint Josephs University of Philadelphia. ... Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. ... Wilkes-Barre (IPA: , , or [1]) is the central city of the Wyoming Valley and county seat of Luzerne County in northeastern Pennsylvania. ...

Coaching career

Early years

After graduating from Wilkes University, Ryan began graduate work at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. After not once seeing his reflection at the College of Racine in Wisconsin, Ryan became head coach at Sun Valley High School in Aston, Pennsylvania, where he was named conference coach of the year in 1976. His success at the College of Racine and Sun Valley led to a job as assistant head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under head coaches Bill Cofield and Steve Yoder from 1977-84. Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. ... Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. ... Villanova is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Aston Township is a township located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. ... University of Wisconsin redirects here. ... Steve Yoder is a former college basketball coach and is currently scout with the New York Knicks. ...

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

After his stint as an assistant, Ryan accepted the head coaching position at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. At Platteville, he became the premiere coach in Division III basketball. From 1984 until 1999 Ryan's Platteville team posted a 352-76 overall record, a winning percentage of 82%. Ryan guided the UW-Platteville Pioneers to four national championships (1991, 1995, 1998, 1999). He also won eight Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and set a Division III scoring defense record in 1997 with his team only allowing 47.5 points per game. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAAs Division III. As the name implies, member teams are located in the state of Wisconsin; in fact, all of its members are campuses in the University of Wisconsin System. ...

On January 27, 2007 the University of Wisconsin-Platteville officially honored Ryan's 15-year tenure by naming their basketball court "Bo Ryan Court". Ryan, along with the 2007 Wisconsin Badger team attended the event. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

On the strength of his phenomenal success at Platteville, Ryan was hired as head coach at UW-Milwaukee for the 1999-2000 season. UW-Milwaukee had been a desolate Division I basketball program for several years when Ryan arrived, but, in his two seasons as coach, the team had its first back-to-back winning seasons in nearly a decade.[1] Ryan also brought a 1.61% increase in home attendance at UW-Milwaukee, giving the program a new energy that continued into the tenure of his successor Bruce Pearl. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (also known as UW-Milwaukee, UWM or Milwaukee) is a public research university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... Bruce Pearl is an American college basketball coach who currently serves as the head coach of the University of Tennessee mens basketball team. ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Following the Badgers' 2000 Final Four run, head coach Dick Bennett retired two games into the 2000-2001 season. Assistant coach Brad Soderberg finished the season as interim head coach, but was not retained by the University. The coaching search began to concentrate on Rick Majerus of the University of Utah (who was a Milwaukee native) and Bo Ryan. Majerus pulled his name out of consideration, and the decision was made to hire Bo Ryan as head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team. This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Brad Soderberg while at the University of Wisconsin. ... Rick Majerus (born February 17, 1948 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is a former American mens basketball coach, most notably at the University of Utah. ... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. ... The Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. ...

Ryan's first season was much more successful than anticipated. The team was predicted to finish as low as ninth in the Big Ten in pre-season polls. The team, lead by Kirk Penney, surprisingly tied with three other teams for the 2002 Big Ten Championship and received an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. The Badgers once again won the Big Ten championship in the 2002-2003 season and advanced to the "Sweet Sixteen" in the NCAA Tournament. The Badgers won the Big Ten Tournament Championship in 2004, led by Devin Harris, and once again received an NCAA Tournament invitation. In the 2004-2005 season, Wisconsin advanced to the "Elite Eight" in the NCAA Tournament, losing to the eventual national champion, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels. On December 10, 2005, Ryan recorded his 100th victory as Wisconsin head coach by defeating in-state rival Marquette. For other uses of the term Big Ten see Big Ten (disambiguation). ... This article is about NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship. ... Devin Lamar Harris (born February 27, 1983 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States of America. ...

In the 2006-2007 season, Ryan led the Badgers to the pinnacle of college basketball, helping them achieve their first top-five ranking and #1 ranking in the AP poll in the school's history. However, this would last only a week, as they lost their following two games to Michigan State and Ohio State. The Wisconsin-Ohio State game on February 25, 2007, featured two teams ranked #1 in that week's national polls, with Ohio state securing the top ranking in the Coaches poll. The following week they rebounded with a 52-50 win at home over Michigan State, and again defeated Michigan State in the Big Ten tournament, before losing the Big Ten Tournament championship game to Ohio State. In 2007, Bo was named the winner of the Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award. The Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award honors the active Division I basketball coach who has made the most significant positive contributions to his sport during the preceding year. ...

Head coaching record

Trivia

• As of the beginning of the 2007-08 season Ryan has a .721 winning percentage at Wisconsin. [2]
• He has a .774 career winning percentage. Among coaches with 500 career wins his percentage ranks second only to Roy Williams.
• In Big Ten Conference play Ryan has a .737 winning percentage. That ranks first all time among Big Ten coaches with at least five years of experience.

Roy Williams (born August 1, 1950 in Marion, North Carolina) is head coach of the mens basketball team at the University of North Carolina. ...

External links

• Bo Ryan's Biography on UWBadgers.com