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NEW YORK — He has more than 500 wins combined at Penn and Temple. He won 66 percent of his games at Penn and he’s at 64 percent at Temple.
His teams have won 20 or more games 17 times.
He’s taken 16 teams to the NCAA Tournament, and only 12 active coaches have made more trips to the NCAA Tournament.
His .650 career winning percentage of is 20th-best among active coaches.
He’s won an astounding 16 conference titles — 10 regular-season titles at Penn and then three Atlantic 10 Tournament titles, two A-10 regular-season championships and this year’s American Athletic Conference regular-season title at Temple.
Fran Dunphy is also one of the worst coaches in NCAA Tournament history.
Thanks to 3-15.
That's his record in the NCAA Tournament. Three out of 18.
What else is Dunphy? A stand-up guy.
On Thursday, he was asked about his coaching resume — the NCAA Tournament part of it — and he answered with typical class.
“Well, we haven't had great success, no question about it,” he said. “We haven't been wearing white shirts too many of those years either, but that's the way life goes.
“So would I like to have more wins as a basketball coach in the NCAA? Sure. When I think about it, when I used to walk my dog, I would think about it all the time.
“I'd like to reverse the number, but that's not what life has presented to me.”
Dunphy coached at Penn for 17 years and he’s now been at Temple for 10 years.
The Quakers won one NCAA Tourney game while he was coaching in West Philly — they upset Nebraska in Uniondale, New York in 1994. That’s Penn’s only tournament win in the last 36 years.
At Temple, Dunphy has won single games in two of its last three trips to the NCAA Tournament — over Penn State in 2011 in Tucson, Arizona and North Carolina State in 2013 in Dayton, Ohio.
But he remains without a trip to the second weekend in 27 years.
He’ll try again this weekend at the Barclays Center, where Temple is the No. 10 seed in the South Region. The Owls open play at 3 p.m. Friday against No. 7 seed Iowa.
Dunphy was asked if he believes there’s too much emphasis on what a coach does in the NCAA Tournament and whether it’s unfair for people to judge him more for his postseason losses than all his other accomplishments.
Again, a classy answer from a classy guy.
“Not necessarily,” he said. “I think, when we sign the papers to be head coaches in this world, we know what the pressures are.
“You're judged how people are going to judge you. Do we think about it? Sure. Sure, we do. We'd love to win every game. But I think overall, the bigger picture we're looking at is have we done our best? And hopefully we have.”
Dunphy played at La Salle in the late 1960s and was an assistant at La Salle and then Penn before his first head coaching job at Penn in 1989.
“What amazes me about Fran is that, when he was at La Salle, La Salle basketball was at the top of Philly," said Villanova coach Jay Wright, whose Wildcats will meet Temple if both win on Friday.
"When he went to Penn, he had Penn basketball at the top of Philly and nationally a great program, as well as La Salle, when he was an assistant at La Salle, and when he played at La Salle. And then he went to Temple, and he's got that Temple program right back nationally, NCAA Tournament.
“He's a guy that's a winner, and he gets it, and most importantly, he's respected by everybody. You don't see that many people that are successful and respected by everyone, and it's a rare combination.”
What about judging him by those 18 NCAA games he’s coached? And by that 3-15 tourney record?
“I think that nationally it's the only fair way to do it,” Wright said. “I think it's fair. Because nationally … people in Texas and California, they don't get to see us coach every day. What do they see? They see you in the NCAA Tournament. What do you do? So that's your national perspective. I think that's fair.
“If you ask anybody in Philadelphia, they'd say Fran Dunphy is one of the best college basketball coaches in the country, based on what they see him do every day. It's just reality, and I do think it's fair.”