We are in the middle of the college hoops offseason desert. The NBA Draft is over, summer's here, and with it, the 61st college basketball coaching change of the 2022-23 cycle.
The resignation of Bob Huggins at West Virginia was the latest job swap in what turned into one of the busiest carousel spins in many years. There are 80 schools in the Big Six conferences and 15% of them (12) changed coaches this year. Another 49 jobs outside the power leagues — including notable schools like VCU, Temple, Western Kentucky, Utah State and Iona — also had swaps this spring.
If you're wondering just which schools are starting anew, you've come to the right place. Not only do we have the list, we also provide capsules for each program. You can find all the turnover detailed below.
Major-conference changes
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| Out: Chris Beard | In: Rodney Terry Rodney Terry wound up doing what very few thought would be possible as recently as February: winning enough to force athletic director Chris Del Conte to offer him the job. After taking big swings on big names and getting rebuffed, Del Conte might have lucked into a damn good coach after all. Terry's deal is for $15.3 million over five years after he won nearly 75% of his games as interim coach this season, guided UT to a Big 12 postseason crown and made the Elite Eight as a No. 2 seed before squandering away the game late against Miami. Terry now holds a post at what's considered a top-10 job in college basketball. | |
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| Out: Patrick Ewing | In: Ed Cooley Really a sad thing how Ewing could never get Georgetown going. Six years and an honest go of it, but it wasn't meant to be. So Georgetown went and lured Cooley away from Providence. He's charismatic, a proven winner, has pulled off a rebuild before and will need to do it again. This is a broken program but one that theoretically can turn in a couple years' time if Cooley puts in as much work as he'll need to in order to get GU out of the depths of the Big East. | |
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| Out: Jim Boeheim | In: Adrian Autry Boeheim's career ends with a loss at the hands of Wake Forest in the 8/9 game of the ACC Tournament. The Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer coached the Orange from 1976-2023 and won 1,015 games, second most in history to Mike Krzyzewski of Duke. There was also the apex: 2003's national championship run with Carmelo Anthony. Boeheim has been succeeded by Autry, who played for Boeheim in the 1990s and has been on staff since 2011. Boeheim had a longer association with Syracuse University than any other coach in college sports history: nearly 60 years. | |
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| Out: Ed Cooley | In: Kim English Cooley did what many believed he would never do: leave his so-called dream job. He exits Providence having made it a much better program than it was when he arrived. The Friars have arguably the best facilities in the Big East and lay claim to a top-three fan base as well. English is 34 and has two years under his belt as a head coach while at George Mason. He was PC's top target from the beginning — days before Cooley officially decided to go to Georgetown. | |
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| Out: Mike Brey | In: Micah Shrewsberry Brey stepped down following an underwhelming denouement in South Bend. AD Jack Swarbrick put Shrewsberry at the top of his list earlier in March and patiently waited out the end of Penn State's NCAA Tournament run before engaging in discussions. It's the first men's basketball hire in 23 years, and Shrewsberry is the first Black head coach in ND men's basketball history. This feels like a great fit. | |
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| Out: Bob Huggins | In: Josh Eilert Huggins had a disastrous spring, first with his homophobic slurs uttered on Cincinnati radio in May — which didn't cost him his job — and then, in June, his second DUI which did force his resignation at WVU after 16 seasons. Eilert has made the ultra-rare (if not unprecedented) jump of going from a director of basketball operations to running a power-conference program in a year's time. Eilert was a longtime support staffer under Huggins, who was promoted to assistant coach in July 2022. He'll be interim head coach, a move prompted in part by the ill-fated timing of Huggins' sever. | |
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| Out: Mark Adams | In: Grant McCasland Adams resigned March 8 amid controversy and instability behind the scenes lampooned his second season. McCasland took North Texas to the NIT championship before the worst-kept secret in college sports was publicly revealed. It's a move that makes a lot of sense and should set TTU up to remain competitive in the toughest league in college basketball. McCasland has been a head coach for nine seasons and won 70% of his games. | |
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| Out: Mike Anderson | In: Rick Pitino There is anticipation, hope and legitimate reason for excitement and NCAA Tournament expectations around this program for the first time in a long time. Rick Pitino is coming to town and will be back at Madison Square Garden. The Johnnies may have finally gotten it right. The school fired Anderson after four years. Anderson went public with his dispute over St. John's intention to fire him for cause. That could get messy. | |
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| Out: Josh Pastner | In: Damon Stoudamire The Yellow Jackets lasted seven years with Pastner, but it was time for a change. Stoudamire was not an on-the-radar candidate initially, which means AD J Batt successfully navigated back channels, identified his guy privately, and pulled off as big of a PR win as he could with this hire. | |
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| Out: Kermit Davis | In: Chris Beard The school fired Davis on Feb. 24, about one month shy of allowing Davis to finish out his fifth season. He went 74-79 and made the NCAAs in his first year on the job. Beard is back in college basketball after barely more than two months of unemployment after his firing at Texas in the wake of a domestic abuse scandal that formally ended when a felony charge against him was dropped in February. | |
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| Out: Micah Shrewsberry | In: Mike Rhoades Losing Shrewsberry hurts. But it was two good years, he altered the trajectory of the program and has Penn State in a good place. If any coach can keep it going, Rhoades has as good of a chance as any other candidate. He's 373-189 in his career and took VCU to three of the past four NCAA Tournaments. He also knows how to recruit the region and got a huge investment from Penn State. | |
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| Out: Mark Fox | In: Mark Madsen Fox was fired after four seasons. The job is among the five-or-so worst at the high-major level for a variety of reasons. Randy Bennett turned down Cal's offer for the third time in the past eight years, so Madsen became the top target for the Golden Bears. He's a rising star in the business and just did four good years at Utah Valley. Will be a bit strange to see the Stanford icon coaching at Cal, however. | |
Non-Big Six changes
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| Out: Mike Brennan | In: Duane Simpkins Brennan lasted a decade at American, but only made the NCAAs in his first season there. Simpkins get plucked locally, after having served the past two seasons on Kim English's staff at George Mason. He played at Maryland and is from the area. Logical hire. | |
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| Out: Mike Balado | In: Bryan Hodgson The Wolves were coached by Balado for six years and fired him after his buyout dropped in mid-March. The program last made the NCAAs in 1999. As expected, Hodgson, an Alabama assistant, was the pick. Expectations have spiked in Jonesboro. | |
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| Out: Jimmy Allen | In: Kevin Kuwik The Black Knights played seven years under Allen and were, for the most part, a middle-of-the-pack Patriot League team. Kuwik is a decorated, longtime assistant with a background in the military, having spent a decade in the Armed Forces. Really, one of the best hires of this year's cycle. He comes via Butler University. | |
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| Out: Nate James | In: Corey Gipson James was out less than two years after taking the job. The former Duke assistant was 17 games under .500 through two seasons (21-38), but Austin Peay was a job in transition, moving from the OVC to the ASUN this season. Gipson moved quickly to get this job, and I'm told was able to push for an aggressive salary pool in the negotiating process. | |
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| Out: Michael Huger | In: Todd Simon The Falcons hired Southern Utah coach Todd Simon, who was 38-14 the last three years for the Thunderbirds. Bowling Green is one of the toughest jobs in the MAC. | |
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| Out: Nathan Davis | In: John Griffin III Bucknell split from Davis after eight seasons, which included a 129-155 record and NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017 and 2018. It hired Griffin, an '08 alum, and someone who was associate head coach at Saint Joseph's the past four years. "As an alum, the success of Bucknell Athletics resonates with me on a deep level, and I look forward to bringing the Patriot League championship back to Sojka Pavilion," Griffin said. He was a starter for multiple Bucknell NCAAT teams. | |
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| Out: Jim Whitesell | In: George Halcovage The Bulls made four NCAA Tournaments in five years under Bobby Hurley and Nate Oats, but the momentum couldn't continue under Whitesell. The search process to land their man took longer than Buffalo's administration desired, but ultimately it brings in Halcovage who, no big deal, only helped coach Villanova to a couple of national titles. This is his first head-coaching gig. | |
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| Out: Trent Johnson | In: Andy Newman CSUN AD Shawn Chin-Farrell went to the D-II ranks to bring on his next coach: Andy Newman. This is his first D-I job, but his career record is 206-98. | |
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| Out: Ron Sanchez | In: Aaron Fearne The 49ers job came open unexpectedly in June when Sanchez resigned after five seasons and a 72-78 record. Sanchez opted to return to Virginia and once more be an assistant to Tony Bennett. Fearne was promoted on an interim basis for '23-24. The 49ers last made the NCAAs in 2005. The program transitioned this summer from Conference USA to the American. | |
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| Out: Juan Dixon | In: Larry Stewart The Maryland basketball legend was a flop at Coppin State, lasting six seasons and going 9-23 this year. There is some major clean-up to be done here. Stewart is a local, not only because he played at Coppin State, but he was most recently on staff at UMES and Morgan State. | |
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| Out: Desmond Oliver | In: Brooks Savage Two seasons and done for Oliver, who went 27-37. It wasn't so long ago that ETSU was competing for NCAA Tournaments and winning the SoCon under Steve Forbes. And so Savage, a former ETSU assistant under Forbes, gets the job on a four-year contract. | |
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| Out: Tobin Anderson | In: Jack Castleberry The best story of the NCAA Tournament turned into a job that Anderson only had for 10 months. After the Knights upset 1-seed Purdue and nearly knocked off No. 9 FAU, Anderson's quickly rumored candidacy at Iona became official. Castleberry was promptly promoted one seat over on the bench. | |
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| Out: Kim English | In: Tony Skinn Two-and-through for English, who got the rare opportunity to make a leap from the A-10 to the Big East after just two seasons as a head coach. Skinn is a program legend, having been a major part of the 2006 team that made the Final Four. There is a lot of roster work to do, but Skinn has developed a good reputation in the past half-decade as he's earned his stripes in the profession. | |
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| Out: Brian Burg | In: Charlie Henry The Eagles bring in Henry, an assistant at Alabama, to try and bring some life into an Eagles program that is arguably the worst in the Sun Belt. Henry replaces Burg who was on a weirdly short leash and only given three years by athletic director Jared Benko. The Eagles went 43-45 in three seasons. | |
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| Out: Will Ryan | In: Sundance Wicks Wicks, an assistant coach for Wyoming the past three seasons, replaces Ryan, who was fired after he went 2-19 this season. Green Bay is one of the toughest jobs in the Horizon League. | |
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| Out: G.G. Smith | In: Alan Huss Tubby Smith's son was promoted to the full-time job a year ago but was fired following a 14-17 season. Similar to Bucknell in the Patriot League, High Point is a highly coveted job in the Big South because of its campus setting and facilities. Huss comes via Creighton, and was the choice after a few other assistants at high-major jobs turned down High Point's offers. | |
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| Out: Brett Nelson | In: Dave Paulsen Nelson went 27-84 in four seasons. The Crusaders, who reside in the Patriot League, have made one NCAA Tournament since 2007. The school did a great job in getting Paulsen, who has previous head coaching experience at Bucknell and George Mason. | |
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| Out: Zac Claus | In: Alex Pribble Pribble, an assistant at Seattle, was hired to replace Claus, who went 28-88 with the Vandals. Idaho is an appealing mid-major job in that part of the country now due to new facilities, but it's traditionally a sub-par team in the Big Sky. | |
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| Out: Carson Cunningham | In: Shane Heirman Cunningham was sacked on April 11 after five seasons with the Cardinals, who reside in the Southland Conference. Cunningham's teams averaged just 8.4 wins per year. Heirman was tapped for the job after stints as an assistant at DePaul and Central Michigan. | |
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| Out: Rick Pitino | In: Tobin Anderson Iona resuscitated Pitino's career, and after three years he became irresistible at the power-conference level, so off he goes to St. John's. Two NCAA Tournament appearances and a boost in relevance. The Gaels wasted no time in plucking Anderson away from FDU. It's not just his single year at FDU that gives Anderson credence; he was highly regarded as a Division II coach long before he coached Cinderella's latest story. | |
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| Out: Amir Abdur-Rahim | In: Antoine Pettway Kennesaw State won one game in Abdur-Rahim's first season. After Year 4, he parlayed KSU's only NCAA Tournament appearance in history into an opportunity at South Florida. Pettway, who spent the past 15 years with the Tide, is the third and final Alabama assistant to get a head-coaching gig, joining Bryan Hodgson and Charlie Henry. | |
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| Out: Mike Jordan | In: Mike McGarvey After an epoch with Fran O'Hanlon, Jordan replaced the local legend a year ago. But an investigation into Jordan's behavior in February prompted McGarvey to take over on an interim basis. He was ultimately given the job in early April. McGarvey was a D-III coach not so long ago. A quick rise for the young coach. | |
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| Out: Steve Masiello | In: John Gallagher The 11-16 Jaspers had a sideways campaign after firing Masiello on the precipice of the regular season. RaShawn Stores did an admirable job in a very tough situation, but the administration opted against keeping Stores in favor of Gallagher, who took Hartford (now in D-III) to its one and only NCAA Tournament showing in 2021. | |
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| Out: John Aiken | In: Will Wade Aiken was fired after just two seasons and a 22-45 overall record. Former coach Heath Schroyer is now the AD and decided Wade was worth the risk after Wade was fired by LSU after an investigation into violations of NCAA recruiting rules and being caught on a wiretap talking about paying players. The day after his introductory presser, the school suspended Wade from summer recruiting and the first five games of next season. In June, the IARP extended the suspension to 10 games and added a two year show-cause order to Wade's punishment. | |
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| Out: Danny Sprinkle | In: Matt Logie The Bobcats enjoyed two really good seasons under Sprinkle but will need to start anew after he took the Utah State job. Logie is a really good get, and could conceivably continue winning ways in Bozeman. He won 82.6% of his games in 12 seasons at Whitworth University (D-III) and Point Loma (D-II). | |
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| Out: Bill Herrion | In: Nathan Davis The UNH job came open for the first time since the mid-aughts. Herrion's contract was not renewed after he went 227-303 in 18 seasons with the Wildcats. The search was a bit torturous, but in the end, the Wildcats wound up picking up Davis after his eight-year run at Bucknell. | |
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| Out: Brian Kennedy | In: Grant Billmeier A seven-year run with one above-.500 season (2018-19) led to Kennedy's resignation on March 6. Billmeier is a longtime assistant to Kevin Willard (and now is among the tallest head coaches in the game). | |
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| Out: Greg Heiar | In: Jason Hooten A calamity of tragedy and abuse poisoned this program, so much so that the school's chancellor shut the season down in February. Days later, Heiar was rightfully fired in the midst of his first season. The Aggies have had a tournament-level team 11 times since 2007. Hooten quietly did well at the Southland level with Sam Houston State. This is a challenging step up. | |
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| Out: Austin Claunch | In: Tevon Saddler The Colonels needed a coach after a four-year run with one of the youngest guys in the game, Claunch. He went 90-61, with a 58-28 mark in Southland Conference. Claunch interviewed for more than a half-dozen jobs the past two cycles, ultimately deciding to join on as an assistant at Alabama. Saddler, 28, played at Nicholls in 2017-18 and is the youngest head coach in D-I. | |
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| Out: Will Jones | In: Monte Ross NC A&T is in the midst of a challenging transition from the MEAC to the Big South to the CAA in a three-year span. Interim coach Phillip Shumpert kept the Aggies competitive in the league after Jones was fired. Ross spent a decade coaching Delaware and was most recently on staff at Temple. To land a coach with this much experience is a good sign for the Aggies. | |
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| Out: Grant McCasland | In: Ross Hodge The Mean Green had two NCAA Tournament-level teams in McCasland's six seasons. Now that he's off to Lubbock to coach Texas Tech, it means Hodge's long-awaited chance at being a head coach has come to pass. Hodge is a defensive mastermind who will seek to boost UNT's profile as the school moves to the American. | |
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| Out: Corey Gipson | In: Rick Cabrera After Gipson left after just one season to take the Austin Peay job, the program hired Tallahassee Community College's Rick Cabrera. That's a whiplash-like turn after having Mike McConathy from 1999-2022. | |
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| Out: Paul Mills | In: Russell Springmann A second NCAA Tournament appearance in a three-year span was enough to get Mills a highly coveted job in not-so-far-away Wichita State. The Golden Eagles made a savvy move and promoted Russell Springmann. Long-overdue chance for Springmann, who rose to prominence in the business more than 15 years ago as an assistant at Texas for Rick Barnes. | |
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| Out: Baker Dunleavy | In: Tom Pecora After six seasons running QU, Dunleavy headed back to Villanova to be the Wildcats' general manager — to oversee the roster and monitor NIL and transfer portal activity for a blue blood in need of a boost in Year 2 under Kyle Neptune. Pecora is an experienced coach at the mid-major level and was the obvious hand-off. | |
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| Out: Jason Hooten | In: Chris Mudge This was a fairly streamlined process. Hooten was flirting with New Mexico State for nearly two weeks, and as it became obvious he was going to take that job, Mudge became the top candidate, as he should have been. Mudge's time with SHS goes back to 2010, when he was hired as an assistant. | |
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| Out: Brian Gregory | In: Amir Abdur-Rahim The Bulls had one above-.500 season in six years under Gregory, who left with a 79-107 mark. USF is a tough job in a league (the American) that is bringing on six members this summer after losing Houston, Cincinnati and UCF to the Big 12. Abdur-Rahim is a nice save after a mess of a search. He just took Kennesaw State to the NCAA Tournament and is on a great career trajectory. | |
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| Out: Sean Woods | In: Kevin Johnson The Jaguars made a change after five years with Woods, which was a surprise at that level of hoops. Johnson, a Tulane assistant the past few seasons, has been tapped for this Baton Rouge gig. | |
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| Out: Todd Simon | In: Rob Jeter Simon left after going 65-28 overall and 38-14 the last three years for the Thunderbirds to take over at Bowling Green. The Thunderbirds hiring Jeter away from Western Illinois was one of the most out-of-nowhere decisions in this year's cycle. Jeter has two NCAA tourney appearances to his name, taking Milwaukee there in 2006 and 2014. | |
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| Out: Aaron McKie | In: Adam Fisher McKie went 52-56 in four seasons and will remain on as a special advisor for the athletics department. Temple's search was the messiest process of any hiring this cycle. Curiously, the school opted against the layup of bringing in Colgate's Matt Langel, who would have been a home run. That's not to bag on Fisher, who knows the recruiting territory here. This might well work. We'll see. But Temple is in a desperate phase right now. Fisher comes over by way of Penn State, where he helped Micah Shrewsberry reboot that program. | |
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| Out: Steve Lutz | In: Jim Shaw Two years, two NCAA Tournaments, and now Lutz heads to Western Kentucky. The Islanders' gig is in a great location and is probably the best job in the Southland at this point. Shaw was promoted in-house after helping Lutz turn the program around. | |
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| Out: Greg Young | In: K.T. Turner Young was fired in February following less than two years on the job. Turner, who has great recruiting connections across Texas, arrives after spending the past two seasons as an assistant at Kentucky and Oklahoma. He will be the program's fifth in a seven-year span. It's been bungled since Scott Cross' quizzical firing (after winning 72 games in three seasons) in 2018. | |
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| Out: Ryan Odom | In: Danny Sprinkle Odom is an East Coast lifer, so the move back to VCU is no surprise. If anything, he kept USU relevant in the Mountain West and has the program positioned to remain stable moving forward. Sprinkle comes by way of Montana State, where he took the Bobcats to back-to-back NCAAs and was immediately an obvious target to get this job. | |
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| Out: Mark Madsen | In: Todd Phillips The Wolverines were a respected program under their past two coaches: Madsen and Mark Pope. It's a quality WAC job, and ultimately the administration decided to stay in-house and hire Phillips after his last four years under Madsen. | |
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| Out: Matt Lottich | In: Roger Powell A late firing in the process, but one that came after the buyout dropped, I was told. This is a small-time program (that needs upgrades) with a big-time name at that level. The school was turned down by many candidates, but I was also told Valpo prioritized hiring a minority candidate who knows the region well and has a faith-based background. Powell checks every box. | |
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| Out: Mike Rhoades | In: Ryan Odom An agonizing decision for Rhoades, who felt he had to leave VCU and the A-10. The reason? No, not just the money. More than anything: Playing in the Big Ten, even at Penn State, affords him a more likely chance on a yearly basis to be in the NCAA Tournament than at VCU. The Rams have a better program right now than Penn State -- and easily way more fan support -- but do they have a better situation, big-picture? You can argue either way. Odom makes sense as an immediate replacement. He knows the area, will recruit well and is a good fit. The pressure will be on to keep up with VCU's winning ways, though. | |
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| Out: Rob Jeter | In: Chad Boudreau Jeter found an escape hatch and took the Southern Utah job, hopping from the Summit League to the WAC in a job change few saw coming. Boudreau was bumped up to the full-time spot after being an assistant the last three seasons with the Leathernecks. | |
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| Out: Rick Stansbury | In: Steve Lutz Stansbury's run lasted seven years and included a .610 winning percentage (139-89), but he's the first coach in program history to fail to reach the NCAA Tournament. This is a good mid-major job with proud tradition. Lutz figures to restore some roar to a region with which he's familiar. This is a quality hire, and Lutz has a good recruiter's eye. | |
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| Out: Isaac Brown | In: Paul Mills Brown was interim coach in 2020-21, got Wichita State to the First Four and was given the full-time job. The past two seasons: 32-28. The Shockers finished outside the top 100 at KenPom. Mills went 106-83 in six seasons at Oral Roberts and made two NCAA Tournaments. This is a key hire at a crucial time for the program. That fan base will not settle for "good enough." | |
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| Out: Jay McAuley | In: Dwight Perry The Terriers had McAuley for less than 2.5 seasons; he was pushed out due to internal strife between him and the players. Dwight Perry coached the team in his stead and wound up somewhat surprisingly earning the job after Wofford finished 16-15. "He did a great job during the past season of bringing stability to the program and building a culture of teamwork, grit and competitiveness. We look forward watching the program move forward under his leadership," AD Richard Johnson said. | |
