John Beilein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American basketball player and coach
Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1953
Place of Birth: Niagara County, New York, United States
Profession: basketball coach
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About John Beilein
- John Patrick Beilein ( BEE-lyne; born February 5, 1953) is an American basketball coach and current head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- He has previously coached the Michigan Wolverines (2007–2019), West Virginia Mountaineers (2002–2007), Richmond Spiders (1997–2002), Canisius Golden Griffins (1992–1997) in NCAA Division I as well as Le Moyne College (1983–1992), Nazareth College (1982–1983) and Erie Community College (1978–1982).
- Beilein has won 754 career games at four-year universities and 829 games altogether, including those at the junior college level.
- Beilein was the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels—junior college, NCAA Division III, NCAA Division II, and NCAA Division I.
- Beilein is one of only six Division I coaches with 700 or more career wins.
- He has been recognized as conference coach of the year five times: in 1981 at Erie Community College, in 1988 at LeMoyne, in 1994 at Canisius, in 1998 at Richmond, and in 2014 at Michigan.
- In addition, Beilein was the seventh of only ten coaches to have taken four different schools to the NCAA Division I Tournament.
- He is known for his attention to details, focus on fundamentals and knack for developing under-the-radar players.
- Beilein is also widely respected in collegiate sports as one of the cleanest and most rule-abiding coaches.
- In a poll conducted by CBS in 2017, Beilein was voted the cleanest coach in college basketball, gathering 26.6% of the votes vs.
- the next highest candidate's 10.5%.Beilein's first Division I head coaching position was at Canisius, a hometown school of which he had been a fan.
- He turned around the school's losing program and helped it earn two National Invitation Tournament (NIT) bids and one NCAA Tournament appearance in five years.
- Next, at Richmond, he reached the NCAA Tournament once and NIT twice in five years.
- He moved on to West Virginia, where his teams reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament twice, and also twice went to the NIT, including one championship.
- At Michigan, where he became the school's winningest coach, he won two Big Ten regular-season championships, two Big Ten Tournament titles, and in the NCAA Tournament twice advanced as far as the national championship game.
- He has a 26–13 career record in the NCAA tournament, with championship game appearances in 2013 and 2018, as well as a 13–6 record in the NIT.
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