Despite my complaints about violations and scandals, it is pretty obvious how important coaching is to the college basketball game, and this Final 4 has an amazing list of coaches.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are the career wins (along with their ranking in the coaching elite) – thanks to Sports Reference.<\/p>\n
It gets even more impressive if you keep going.\u00a0\u00a0 You have to have won 427 games to be one of the top 100 coaches of all-time (at least in career wins).\u00a0 Only 30 of the 351 NCAA Division-I teams can boast having that talented of a coach.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11 of those 30 were coaching teams that made the Sweet 16.\u00a0\u00a0 And the other 5 aren’t slouches – only Billy Kennedy at 310-249 has a winning percentage under 60% (although to be fair, Greg Garb from Wisconsin has only coached this season).\u00a0 Considering that Kennedy, Tom Crean from Indiana, Mark Turgeon from Maryland and Tony Bennett from Virginia have a lot of coaching probably left, I wouldn’t be surprised if many of them eventually finish their careers in the top 100.<\/p>\n
But just think about this, the Final 4 coaches this year combined have a record of 2,835 wins and 1,156 losses – for a winning percentage of just over 71%.\u00a0 There were only 61 coaches (63 if we include Boeheim and Williams) who can claim a higher winning percentage.\u00a0\u00a0 And to put into perspective how hard that is, here are a\u00a0few pretty famous coaches who didn’t win 71% of their games.<\/p>\n
Anyways, that is a long-winded way of saying that these 4 coaches are pretty amazing.<\/p>\n
Just 15 minutes to tip-off of Villanova vs Oklahoma!!!!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Get your favorite snack and drink ready – the Final Four is about to begin!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n
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