Yale Bulldogs basketball
Yale Bulldogs basketball history
Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Payne Whitney Gymnasium
Ivy League
Current head coach: James Jones (1999-)
- Assoc. HC: Matt Kingsley (2005-)
- Assoc. HC: Justin Simon (2011-)
- Asst: Brandon Sherrod (2023-)
- DBO: Matt Elkin (2020-)
Post-Season:
- National Championships: 0
- Final Four Appearances: 0
- Sweet Sixteen Appearances: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 7 (1949, 1957, 1962, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2024)
- NCAAT Overall Record: 2-8
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2002, 2023)
- NIT Overall Record: 1-2
- CIT Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2014)
- CIT Appearances: 2 (2012, 2014)
- CIT Overall Record: 4-2
- Premo-Porretta National Championships: 4 (1896, 1897, 1899, 1900)
- Helms Foundation National Championships: 2 (1901, 1903)
Conference Titles (Ivy League):
- Ivy League Regular Season Championships: 17 (1902, 1903, 1907, 1915, 1917, 1923, 1933, 1949, 1957, 1962, 1963, 2002, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023)
- Ivy League Tournament Championships: 3 (2019, 2022, 2024)
Award Winners:
- Naismith Player of the Year: 0
- John R. Wooden Award: 0
- Oscar Robertson Trophy: 0
- AP All-Americans: 2 (Tony Lavelli, 1948 & 1949)
- Ivy League Player of the Year: 5 (last = Paul Atkinson, 2020)
Yale head coaches:
| Coach | Tenure | Record | Conf. Titles | NCAA Apps. | Nat. Champ |
| James Jones | 1999-Pres | 396-311 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Dick Kuchen | 1986-99 | 151-189 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tom Brennan | 1982-86 | 46-58 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ray Carazo | 1975-82 | 68-114 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Vancisin | 1956-75 | 206-242 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Howard Hobson | 1947-56 | 121-118 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ivy Williamson | 1946-47 | 7-18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Red Rolfe | 1942-46 | 48-28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ken Loeffler | 1935-42 | 61-82 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elmer Ripley | 1929-35 | 82-50 | 1 | – | – |
| George Taylor | 1925-29 | 39-45 | 0 | – | – |
| Joseph Fogarty | 1922-25 | 31-29 | 1 | – | – |
| Orson Kinney | 1921-22 | 6-21 | 0 | – | – |
| Albert Sharpe | 1919-21 | 25-26 | 0 | – | – |
| Walter Mace | 1917-19 | 14-16 | 0 | – | – |
| Bernie Tommers | 1916-17 | 19-5 | 1 | – | – |
| Robert Stowe | 1914-16 | 26-11 | 1 | – | – |
| Haskell Noyes | 1913-14 | 11-7 | 0 | – | – |
| Pop Foster | 1912-13 | 5-7 | 0 | – | – |
| R.B. Hyatt | 1911-12 | 1-9 | 0 | – | – |
| William Lush | 1906-11 | 73-47-1 | 1 | – | – |
| no coach | 1898-1906 | 98-65-1 | 2 | – | – |
| Dr. Henry S. Anderson | 1895-98 | 30-19-1 | – | – | – |
Key: Conf. Titles= Regular Season only, NCAA Apps= NCAA Tournament Appearances, Nat. Champ= NCAA Tournament Champions
NOTE: Overall program records on this page do not include anything later vacated by the NCAA.
