Who is John Beilein

John Beilein (pronounced bee-line; born February 5, 1953) is the men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2009?10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball season is his third at Michigan, with whom he has a six-year contract. Entering the 2009?10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Beilein had won 507 career games (including games that were not at the Division I level, but excluding junior college games). He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers, Richmond Spiders, Canisius College Golden Griffins in Division I as well as Le Moyne College, Nazareth College and Erie Community College of Pennsylvania.

Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels—junior college, NAIA, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division I. He has been recognized as Coach of the Year four times: in 1981 at Erie Community College, in 1988 at LeMoyne, in 1994 at Canisius, and in 1998 at Richmond. In addition, Beilein is one of only seven coaches in history (along with Lefty Driesell, Jim Harrick, Lon Kruger, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and Eddie Sutton) to have taken four different schools to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Tournament.