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2020-21 Coaches Database Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year:
@BUKnightsMBB
's Scott Davenport. In just their first year at the D-I level, the Knights were just one win away from an A-Sun title and enter next week's tournament as the 2-seed.
@Bellarminehoops
2020-21 Coaches Database MEAC Coach of the Year:
@NCATMBB
's Will Jones. In his first full year on the job, Jones led the Aggies to a league-best 7-1 record and a MEAC South Division title.
Countdown to tipoff: 70 days
Today's featured coach: Perry Watson
Leading the
#DetroitMercy
Titans for 15 years, Watson won 258 games, 2 Horizon titles and 2 Horizon Tournaments. He was the league's COY in 1998.
Countdown to tipoff: 65 days
Today's featured coach: Joe Gallo
The head coach at new Division I program Merrimack College has won 61 games through his first three seasons at the helm. Led the Warriors to three-straight Div-II NCAA Tournaments.
Countdown to tipoff: 41 days
Today's featured coach: M. K. Turk
A fixture at
#SouthernMiss
, Turk led the Golden Eagles for twenty years and won an even 300 games. He won the Metro in 1991, one of just two D-I conference titles in program history.
2020-21 Coaches Database Big West Coach of the Year:
@UCRMBB
's Mike Magpayo. Success on the court [13-7 (8-4)] and ground-breaking off of it, Magpayo is the first D-I men's head coach of full Asian descent.
Countdown to tipoff: 20 days
Today's featured coach: Branch McCracken
Before Bobby there was Branch, the winner of 364 games and two NCAA titles in 24 seasons as the
#Hoosiers
’ head coach. Coached
#BallState
before arriving at alma mater
#IUBB
in 1938.
2020-21 Coaches Database Patriot League Coach of the Year:
@NavyBasketball
's Ed DeChellis. Battled back from a stroke to go 15-2 (12-1) and lead the Midshipmen to their first Patriot League regular season title since 2000.
First career head coaching victory for Tevon Saddler is a HUGE one, as his
#Nicholls
squad just beat LSU in Baton Rouge for only the second time in program history.
Saddler is a former Nicholls player and staffer who at just 28 years old is the youngest HC in D-I men’s hoops.
Since joining D-I in 2005, Kennesaw State men's basketball has never finished above .500. Their best record was 14-18 in 2016-17. Today the Owls improved to 14-6 (6-1) on the season. What a job by fourth-year head coach Amir Abdur-Rahim! Went 1-28 in year one...
2020-21 Coaches Database OVC Coach of the Year:
@MSUEaglesMBB
's Preston Spradlin. It was quite a turnaround for the Eagles, increasing their conference win total by 10 games to finish 2nd in the league standings.
@CoachPSpradlin
The SWAC has its second men's basketball upset in as many days, as
@Alcorn_St_MBB
takes down Wichita State on the road. Grambling (
@gmensbasketball
) beat Colorado at home yesterday.
What a job Grant McCasland has done at North Texas. In just four seasons, he has won a CBI Championship (2018), a Conference USA title (2020) and a Conference USA Tournament for a NCAA bid (2021). Will be a hot name for the next major job opening in the South/Southwest.
8 head coaches retired after 2021-22. Here's how their replacements did YoY:
Corey Gipson (NW St) +13 wins
Mo Williams (JSU) +3
Mike Jordan (Laf) +1
Eric Duft (Weber) -3
Jon Scheyer (Duke) -5
Matt McKillop (Dav) -11
Kyle Neptune (Nova) -13
Rob Lanier (SMU) -14
There's been lots of praise (and deservedly so) for the job that Bryan Mullins is doing at SIU, having the Salukis in great position to get back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007. They already have 17 wins with 10+ games to go, the best win total under Mullins.
For anyone interested, here are the schools with the most alums currently serving as D-I head men's basketball coaches:
1) Duke - 9
T-2) Indiana - 5
T-2) Kentucky - 5
T-2) Princeton - 5
T-5) North Carolina - 4
T-5) Seton Hall - 4
Completely missed this over the weekend, but congrats to Paul Mills and Oral Roberts on being the second team to clinch a share of a conference title in 2023!!
ORU can win the Summit outright with one more victory (or one SDSU loss).
They may not be eligible for the NCAA Tournament, but helluva job by Tony Pujol and the North Alabama Lions to reach the Atlantic Sun Tournament title game.
@una_basketball
If you aren’t already listening, Wr can’t recommend the Titus & Tate podcast enough for college basketball fans. Definitely the most entertaining podcast in the CBB space but also informative and comprehensive.
@titusandtate
From the archive: Bob Huggins coaching at Walsh College (now University) in Canton, OH. He was the Cavs' head coach from 1980-83 and went 71-26 overall.
2020-21 Coaches Database WAC Coach of the Year:
@UTRGVmbb
's Lew Hill. We, along with the WAC, mourn the loss of Coach Lew Hill and honor his service to the school, league and the larger college basketball community. With over three decades in coaching, Hill will be missed.
EIGHT current D-I head men's basketball coaches that played for and/or coached under Knight:
Steve Alford, Nevada
Chris Beard, Ole Miss
Mike Davis, Detroit Mercy
Michael Lewis, Ball St
Dusty May, FAU
Joe Pasternack, UCSB
Marty Simmons, EIU
Mike Woodson,
#IUBB
There are now four Kansas State alums serving as D-I head men's basketball coaches.
WVU's Josh Eilert joins Brad Underwood (Illinois), Steve Henson (UTSA) and David Kiefer (SE Louisiana).
#KState
Countdown to tipoff: 72 days
Today's featured coach: Gerald Myers
This 5x Southwest Coach of the Year led Texas Tech to the NCAA Tournament four times. Spent almost 50 years at Tech as a student athlete, coach and administrator
Former La Salle, Ohio head coach Billy Hahn has passed away at age 69. Hahn played and coached at Maryland and was most recently on Bob Huggins' staff at West Virginia for ten years before retiring in 2017
For today's Assistant Coach Chat, we spoke with
#Columbia
's Jake Brown about why he got into coaching, how the staff is preparing for this coming season and more!
@coachjakebrown
@CULionsMBB
Countdown to tipoff: 71 days
Today's featured coach: Ricardo Patton
Recently named a special advisor at
#Vanderbilt
, Patton has 219 wins as head coach at
#Colorado
and
#Northern
Illinois. He's been to two NCAAs and four NITs.
After winning 21 games in year two, Bucky McMillan just led
#Samford
to at least a share of the SoCon regular season title with a win this evening!
McMillan was hired in 2020 after spending 14 years (12 as head coach) at Mountain Brook HS (AL).
FAU is in the NCAA Final Four
UAB and UNT are in the NIT Final Four
Charlotte won the CBI
Lots of postseason dollars coming the way of Conference USA
All four of those programs are joining The American (AAC) in July of this year.
2020-21 Coaches Database SWAC Coach of the Year:
@GoJSUTigersMBB
's Wayne Brent. One of the longest-tenured coaches in the league, Brent led the Tigers to a SWAC title for the first time under his leadership.
Former head coaches Tom Penders and Rick Byrd will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame next November as part of the class of 2021.
For today's Assistant Coach Chat, we spoke with
#FairleighDickinson
's Pete Lappas about why he got into coaching, how the staff is preparing for this coming season and more!
@PeteLappas
@FDUKnightsMBB