Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim is the oldest coach in NCAA Division I history. The former UNC star guard was also on staff for the program's 2017 national title. Krzyzewski is not only among the oldest coaches in college basketball history, but also its longest-tenured coaches. Were going to proceed by ranking all 68 of these coaches from top to bottom. This is Prohm's second stint at Murray State; he had served there from 20112015. Hes won the Big South regular season title twice and the conference tournament title twice, going to the NCAA Tournamentsecond round a couple of times. Frericks would always be Donohers AD. A point guard for Marshall during the late 60s, he was a high school coach for 30 years before joining his brother and serving as an assistant on the Suns, Knicks and Lakers. Donoher is a Dayton man and always has been. Dayton star Don May hit 13 consecutive shots and the Flyers rolled over the Tar Heels by 14 points. The highest-ranked head coach younger than 45 checks in at No. The 2021 edition of March Madness tastes extra sweet after last seasons cancellation due to the national pandemic. Pitino is proving that he's still got it even at age 70. Many of the wins and seasons during those years were later vacated by the school. Im looking at them on the floor right now, he said. (1986-87 - 2002-03); Talladega (1964-65 - 1966-67); Tuskegee (1996-97 - 1999-00), Idaho (1990-91 - 1992-93); Utah St. (1993-94 - 1997-98); Iowa St. (1998-99 - 2002-03); Southern Miss. With the passing of Joe B. 10:38 am, February 24, 2023 Selection show. Theres no reason to believe that anyone on this list couldnt work their way up the coaching echelon in the coming years. The difference between one Mountain West team being in the bracket and the other being outtemporarily, in both instancesmight be the four points that decided these two thrilling meetings. Unbeaten UCLA, a wizard named John Wooden and an unstoppable towering sophomore then called Lew Alcindor put an end to that. At 67, he may be entering the twilight phase of his coaching journey, but he continues to lead the Spartans to the NCAA Tournament on an annual basis. For the first time in MVC history the Conference has five teams with 20+ wins prior to the league tournament. His Cougars are again expected to compete for the national title this season. Drew took over at Baylor in 2003 with the program in the depths of despair. WithVillanova'sJay Wright retiring at 60, Tubby Smith calling it a career and others like Tom Crean and Ben Howland out of work after last season, some of the sport's more recognizable names are no longer in the game. Dont know? Chapter 4: Redeeming USA Basketball He was born on November 17, 1944. Some of these coaches are living legends of the game while others are just thrilled on making their first trips to the NCAA Tournament. That number does not take into account 64-year-old Mike. Dates, TV schedule, locations, odds & more for the NCAA Tournament. This is McKay's second stint at Liberty; he had served there from 20072009. Joining the Southeastern Conference no later than July 2025. 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Krzyzewski is among the sport's most decorated coaches: He has 15 ACC Tournament championships, 13 regular-season championships, 12 Final Four appearances, five national titles and 1,170 wins and counting. His postseason track record is tepid, but his reputation as a program builder is rock solid. NCAA Basketball: Analyzing final 4 options for FIU transfer Antonio Daye Jr. 2021 NCAA Tournament Midwest Region roundtable, key questions. Unless, say, 48-year-old Nate Oats (27) breaks through this year with Alabama or Lloyd does it with Arizona, chances are we will have another coach in his 50s or 60s cutting down the nets in Houston. Dana Altman (39), Oregon. Seven seasons have passed since Kentucky last made a Final Four, and those years have featured their share of disappointing final outcomes. Coaches going to the tournament in the first year at their schools: Mark Adams, Texas Tech; Chris Beard, Texas; Hubert Davis, North Carolina; Tommy Lloyd, Arizona; Steve Lutz, Texas A&M-Corpus. Ohio State begins Holtman's sixth season unranked, but the Buckeyes found their way into the top 15 at some point during each of his first five years. While he lacks the high-end NCAA Tournament success experienced by those above him on the list, he is among the most consistently successful coaches in the sport. Now in Year 16 at West Virginia, Huggins could use a good season to get the Mountaineers back on the trajectory they enjoyed earlier in his tenure. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski is venerable, but not oldest in college basketball history | Sporting News US (EN) ILST BRAD 71 69 OT - 4:34 MSST ALA 2 43 36 2nd Half - 15:11 CSF. If not for a farcical NCAA investigation that resulted in a five-year show-cause during his second season at Indiana in 2008, Sampson would be even more accomplished. Fisher left Michigan in 1997, and took the Aztecs job in 1999. But as he told a local reporter about almost never leaving his wife, This is where I think I belong. To think that a decade later, we would be in the same game, it was almost unimaginable, Donoher said. Everything the man has said and done since the horrific (yet appallingly routine) gun violence on the East Lansing campus last week has underscored how much he means to the school and how much the school means to him. He doesnt go to games anymore The steps and the parking at my age, I feel more comfortable watching it on TV, he said but he keeps a close eye on things. Each week, The Minutes highlights a team that has found a way to construct a winning roster during these transient times in the sport. While the sport has lost some older coaching fixtures in recent years in Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Jay Wright, their places in the pecking order have not been filled by fast-rising youngsters. Lafayette were only 6-24, OHanlons worst season at the helm. 1. Chaney who experienced success in both Division I and II but who is perhaps best known for his success at Temple retired at the age of 74 following the completion of the 2005-06 season. Even with that blemish, which led to a six-year detour into the NBA assistant ranks, Sampson has proven himself as one of the profession's elite minds. For years, people have scoffed at the notion of vacated victories (31) as any sort of real NCAA penalty. Cronin wasn't even close to being UCLA's first choice, but as he embarks on his fourth season with the Bruins, it's clear he was the right choice. He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. Ranking third in that category is another ACC coach and another legend in Duke's Mike Krzyzewski. Since the most recent came only seven years after the last one, Donoher joked to the organizer, You dont have much confidence in my longevity. The Wildcats would not be in the tournament without having the Volunteers number. The veteran coach on a double-digit seed will still be higher than an up-and-coming mid-major coach. Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices. The 65-year-old Sampson is making the most out of his tenure coaching the Cougars following an NCAA ban that cost him his job at Indiana. Overlooked? We celebrated too much, Donoher said. 32. The answer, from athletic director Josh Heird, was that doing so could get the school dragged back in front of the NCAA Committee on Infractions to face new sanctions. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. Its motivation to take care myself, he said. He, along with . Eight national titles have been won by coaches in their 30s (most recently Jim Valvano in 1983), and several all-time greats won their first championship by 45 (Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan, Bill Self). Pittsburgh (35) sweeping North Carolina. So, as the 2022-23 season gets underway, who are the sport's best coaches? While each panelist brought their own criteria to the evaluation, the overarching theme was to rank the coaches off who is the best at running a program. He is 55-29 with Incarnate Word since joining the Southland conference. He's made it past the NCAA Tournament's first weekend only once but has been a Coach of the Year in all three conferences where he's worked. After time in the NBA, he won 81.4% of his games and the 1996 national title during an eight-year run at Kentucky that began with the adversity of a two-year postseason ban because of the program's past transgressions. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: collegebasketball | pageType: stories | So was born the University of Dayton Arena, which hosts the First Four and 125 overall NCAA tournament games, more than any building in America. Daniel Wilco has worked at the AJC, Sports Illustrated, and SEC Country. With Roy Williams, Mike Krzyzewski and Jay Wright out of the sport and others of their generation nearing the end, Self is the dean of the sport's coaches. Since taking the Temple job, hes been to the tourney 7 times, winning his first American conference regular season championship with the Owls last season. Here are the 10 longest-tenured active NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches (stats as of Feb. 18, 2023): T-10. When thirsty in the basketball holy land of Bloomington, Ind., The Minutes always recommends finding any and all products from locally based Upland Brewery (40). He was the Oklahoma State and Miami coach before taking the Seminoles job in 2002. The Wolf Pack won a controversial first meeting at home in double overtime, in part thanks to a questionable flagrant foul call, then backed it up with a Kenan Blackshear paint jumper that bounced twice and rolled in at the buzzer. I am? Chapter 1: Ending the era The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NCAA or its member institutions. The embarrassment of having the only vacated mens basketball national title was profound, and the ongoing inability to fully recognize that team remains a sore point in Louisville. That would make him the oldest active player in the sport. But the former head coach of the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors has been an absolute rockstar at Arkansas. 6-keys: media/spln/collegebasketball/reg/free/stories, at If not for the premature ending to the 2020 season, he may have a third national title to his credit. We got off to a horrible start, he said. Hes been a leader, a consoler and a rallyer when Michigan State needed one. At just 52, he is already a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year and Baylor's winningest coach by nearly 200 games. He dug the Volunteers out of that hole and has created a steady winner with both a SEC regular season title (2018) and tournament title last season that was the program's first since 1979. After winning 30 games at Little Rock in his only season, he took Texas Tech to the Elite Eight during Year 2 and to the national title game in Year 3. Games 1-8 (MVC TV Network) Game 9-10 -- Semifinals (CBS Sports Network) Game 11 -- Championship (CBS) State Farm MVC Tournament Notebook (PDF) 20 Something. Virginia missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013 last season, but it looks like just a momentary downturn for a program that was either a No. 2 seed last season following its second regular season conference title of his tenure. Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. I like to think if we had a day and had a little more preparation, we could have done some things to slow down the pace of the game. The Final Four made it all happen. We sort of gained on UCLA from the first time, Donoher said. A four-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, Painter has led the Boilermakers to the past seven NCAA Tournaments. Now in his 24th season with the Bulldogs, Few is 658-129 and has never missed an NCAA Tournament. He was born on Feb. 13, 1947. Davis is another second-year coach keeping elite company because of what he accomplished in Year 1 and because of his noteworthy history as a high-profile assistant. And Miami, coached by 73-year-old Jim Larranaga, isn't far outside at No. In his 47th season, Boeheim is Syracuse basketball. Top 25 And 1 college basketball coaches -- As selected by voting from CBS Sports' Gary Parrish, Matt Norlander, Kyle Boone and David Cobb 1. The breakthrough season, which ended with the program's first Sweet 16 appearance since 1997, resulted in Cooley earning Naismith Coach of the Year. (1987-88 - 1995-96); Indiana (PA) (1996-97 - 2005-06); Francis Marion (2006-07 - 2019-20), CSU Bakersfield (1987-88 - 1996-97); Mont. Rick Pitino quickly turned Iona into a winner. By 1967, Donoher was in his third season as head coach, having taken over for his mentor Tom Blackburn, who had died of cancer. We did regroup and went to New York for the NIT. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel/USA Today Network. Coastal Carolina's Cliff Ellis is 819-541 after wrapping up his 44th season coaching at the DI level. stunned the reigning national champs, 2023 NC skiing championship selections announced. He was an assistant at Penn from 1989 to 1995, and then was hired to coach the Leopards. In 202223, at least, the upper echelon of the sport is the province of middle-aged (at least) coaches who have built their resumes over time. He took over the Marshall job in 2014, so far posting a 28-37 record with the Thundering Herd. Howard represents the best of a recent trend that has seen several former star players return to coach their alma maters after playing and/or coaching stints in the NBA. Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where its time to at least consider the possibility of Northwestern and Pittsburgh winning the Big Ten and ACC, respectively: FIRST HALF: Story lines for the final stretch. is a zero percent chance Wake wouldn't have landed Forbes in 2021. . It seemed like every time we were in that tournament, we were going up against one of those big guys, Donoher said. To decide the Top 25 And 1 best college basketball coaches, Gary Parrish, Matt Norlander, Kyle Boone and David Cobb each submitted their own ballots that were then combined to make a composite ranking. Current Dayton coach Anthony Grant once played for him, and was a freshman on the 1984 Elite Eight team. Will Wade, LSU Tigers-- Wade is the lone coach in this tournament who never played high school basketball -- he played golf and was a four-year student manager at . The January win was especially big, with Iowa State running hot at that point and Oklahoma State barely above .500. 1:10 pm -- MVC Championship Game. But 1967 was not the last memorable March for Donohers program. 31. McDermott took Creighton to its first Sweet 16 since 1974 in 2021, lost all five starters from that team and still won an NCAA Tournament game last season. The Pokes trailed by as many as 16 points and didnt take their first lead until 3:09 remaining. Joining the Big 12 Conference in July 2023. Of all the championship games, that had to be listed as one of the worst because we were definitely a no-show. His resume is missing a national title but not much else. 2022-23. The rest of the story: The banner on display downtown was a replica of the original, but not the original, The Minutes was told. Never bad, rarely great just lacking distinction. Born on October 5, 1948, Dunphy has been a head coach at the division I level since 1989. Since taking over theyre been to the NCAA tournament three times, last time in 2015. Coach K staying busy: 'I don't miss coaching' Duke Blue Devils. Fisher, born on March 24, 1945, is mostly known for his time as the Michigan head coach, which included winning the 1989 NCAA Tournament (he was an interim coach) and his turbulent time in the Fab Five era, which included losing in the NCAA Tournament final back-to-back in 1992 and 1993. Its undoubtedly easier to make a name for oneself as a football assistant than a basketball assistant. Cooley led Providence to a school-record five straight NCAA Tournament appearances between 2014 and 2018, but his finest work yet came last season. The Flyers program having faded by 1989, he would also be the man who stood in front of the microphones to tell the world that Don Donoher had been fired. Bob Knight won three of them by age 46. Playing the bellicose victim card, while fun for some in theory, has its limitations in the real world. They didnt just go to New York, back when the NIT had a higher profile than now, but won the championship. Is a team's performance in the single-elimination conference tournament a good predictor of how it will do on the biggest stage? Krzyzewski certainly didn't earn those numbers, staggering as they are, overnight. MORE: When is March Madness 2022? 1d. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Men's Basketball history has announced that he will retire at the end of this season. 1 seed in each of the past three Big Dances as their talent has increased along with the program's national profile. They might be ready to do it now, in their 50s. NCAA Tournament Futures; . But with Final Four appearances at both Cincinnati and WVU on his resume, Huggins' place as a great among his coaching peers -- both active and all-time -- is secure. 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