Bob Boyd coached the University of Southern California to more than 200 basketball victories and three Top 20 national rankings in the 1960s and ’70s. But he was a victim of unfortunate timing.

Boyd was among the most successful coaches in U.S.C. basketball history, but when he died on Wednesday at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., at 84, he was remembered as well for having collided with college basketball’s greatest dynasty, the reign of Coach John Wooden at U.C.L.A.

“I was at the right place at the wrong time,” Boyd once told The Los Angeles Times. “For the majority of years that I was in the crosstown rivalry, the crosstown teams kept winning national championships.”

Boyd had 11 winning teams in his 13 seasons at U.S.C. and sent 10 players to the N.B.A., most notably the guards Paul Westphal and Gus Williams, both of whom went on to All-Star careers.