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Wooden had immediate success, fashioning an " instant turnaround " for an undistinguished, faltering program.

In 1948, he took a UCLA team that had a 12 – 13 record the previous year and transformed it into a Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ) Southern Division Champion with a 22 – 7 record, the most wins in a season for UCLA since it started playing basketball in 1919.

He surpassed that number the next season with 24 – 7 and a second Southern Division Championship and PCC outright, and won a third and fourth straight Southern Division Championship his first four years.

Up to that time, UCLA had collected a total of two such championships the previous 30 years.