Record at Carleton: 506-439 through 2021-22
Career Record: same
The 2021-22 season marked Guy Kalland's 38th and final year on the Knights' bench. He is one of only five coaches in the MIAC with more than 500 wins at his respective institution. Kalland earned MIAC Coach-of-the-Year honors three times, 2006, 2011, and 2017.
Kalland is Carleton's all-time leader in coaching victories and has led the Knights to winning seasons 25times. The Knights have qualified for the MIAC Playoffs in 15 out of the last 21 seasons and 24 times overall under Kalland's watch, including 23 of the last 33 seasons.
His teams are well prepared and play an intelligent, hard-nosed style at both ends of the floor. The Knights ranked first in the MIAC in scoring defense each season from 2014-15 through the 2017-18 season before finishing second in 2018-19. Carleton has allowed 63.4 points per game over the last 10 seasons. The squad has led all NCAA schools in fewest fouls per game five out the past 10 seasons, including during the 2019-20 season.
A 1974 graduate of Concordia College-Moorhead, Kalland is a professor in the Physical Education, Athletics, and Recreation department at Carleton. Kalland and his wife, Linda, have a daughter, Abby Kershaw, a 2004 graduate of Carleton.
Kalland and the Knights made an improbable run to get into the 2010 MIAC Playoffs by going 9-1 in the conference's second half of the regular season. In the postseason, they upset nationally-ranked St. Thomas in the MIAC Playoff Semifinals and toppled Gustavus Adolphus in the conference championship to qualify for the NCAA Tournament for the second time in Kalland's tenure.
The 2009-10 run mirrored that of the 2005–06 season, when Kalland and the Knights reeled off 17 straight MIAC regular-season wins en route to the program's first conference title since 1965–66. The Knights advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history, and Kalland was recognized as the MIAC and West Region coach of the year.
The 2010-11 season saw the Knights win a share of the MIAC's regular-season title, the program's 20th overall conference title.
In 2016-17, the Knights went on a 14-game win streak and finished in third place in the MIAC standings. The Knights bowed out in the MIAC Playoffs semifinals with a loss to the eventual champion, Bethel.
