Louisville defeated Michigan 82-76 led by Luke Hancock's five 3-pointers and Pitino became the first coach to win titles with different schools.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino, the first coach to win national championships at different schools, gave the record crowd another reason to roar in his postgame interview.
He previously spent seven seasons coaching USA Hockey's National Team development program, where he became the first coach to lead the U.S. Under-18 team to win three gold medals.
If the Portuguese coach succeeds in delivering "La Decima" to the Bernabeu, he will become the first coach to win the trophy with three different teams following previous successes with Porto and Inter Milan.
Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk -- who lost out on the chance to have become the first coach since 1970 to have led a side through World Cup qualifying and the finals unbeaten -- conceded Spain had deserved to win.
"I think it's quite normal because people think they know me, but they don't, " added Mourinho, who is bidding to become the first coach to win the Champions League with three different clubs following his triumphs with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010.
"They played better than us today and they deserved to win, " said Becker, who was attempting to become the first league coach to win the conference title both times in his first two seasons.
Chovanec became the first Czech coach to lead his side to the European Championship finals without dropping a single qualifying point.
Hamer also clarified the new role of head of coaching, saying that it is "not a replacement" for the first XI coach as "it is a strategic role and not a 'tracksuit'-based on the field coaching role".
"I know the concept is good and something we need to do, " said Tony Dungy, who was with the Indianapolis Colts during the 2006 season when he became the first black coach to win a Super Bowl.
Kearney was the first African-American coach to win an NCAA national team championship in Division I track and field, and she was the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas.
Notes: Former Devils captain Muller returned to New Jersey for the first time as the head coach of the Hurricanes.
The first target for the new coach's motivation will be qualifying for the 2004 Nations' Cup, a tournament that Burkina Faso have been ever-present at since 1996.
"There are a lot of new faces in this squad, in both the playing ranks and the coaching staff, " said New Zealander Deans, the first non-Australian coach of the Wallabies.
So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.
But Sampson, the first American-born coach to make the US national team staff, insists giant strides have still been made.
McRae guided St Helens to the League and Cup double in 1996 and was the only man to hold the position of head coach throughout the first nine seasons of Super League.
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Leekens, a man who could not make his mind up about preferred personnel or tactics, gave way to the experienced and decisive Wallonian (the first to be national coach) who, whatever the merits of his vision, took his side in one direction.
The first-year coach's intention was to make clear that he's not going to jump to any quick conclusions regarding quarterback.
The 19-year-old was among the replacements for last year's Millennium Magic game, but now he is one of the first names on coach Steve McNamara's team-sheet.
Depending on the number of first-class seats available, if a coach takes one over a player, then one player, as determined by the union, is entitled to be paid the difference between the value of the first-class seat and the value of the coach seat he was forced to endure.
Before the game, first team coach Wally Downes denied reports defender Matthew Upson would miss the rest of the season with an Achilles tendon injury.
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If Louisville beats Michigan Monday night, the former Kentucky coach would be the first to win NCAA finals at two schools.
When Djokovic got back to the locker room, his team delivered the news that his first coach, Jelena Gencic, had died earlier Saturday in Belgrade, Serbia, at the age of 76.
One person who has no doubt that Djokovic will eventually fulfill his dream is the Serbian's first coach Jelena Genric, who spotted his incredible potential when he was a young boy learning the game.
But if the missed opportunities of the first period bothered Rangers coach John Tortorella, he didn't have much to worry about over the final 40 minutes.
"I am satisfied because it is the first time I am a coach when they changed the decision of the referee, " he said.
There is work to do, but the Sabres appear ready to listen to a new coach for the first time since 1997.
And the central defender said the death of first-team coach Burns last week was an added incentive for the players.
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