unbelievable; the ohio team players are in a disagreement with their head coach
College basketball’s power conference coaching carousel began spinning before the season even started when West Virginia split with Bob Huggins and left the position in the care of interim leader Josh Eilert. Then came in-season decisions for DePaul and Ohio State to part with their coaches, which brought the March 1 tally of open power-conference jobs to three before a postseason game had even been played.
As Matt Norlander detailed in this week’s Court Report, a few more jobs are expected to open and several others could still go either way. Of the jobs presently available, Ohio State is the most high-profile, and there aren’t many expected to enter the fray that would knock the Buckeyes down a rung..
Dusty May, FAU
Ohio State is one of college basketball’s best jobs and a place where lots of people could win. So I’m not sure there’s one perfect candidate here because there are several interesting candidates, some of whom’s names are below.
I know this season hasn’t gone perfectly for the Owls, if only because they were ranked No. 10 in the preseason AP Top 25 and are unranked in this final week of the regular season. That’s not great. But it’s important to remember the big picture with May, and the big picture is that he took over a mid-major program that had never even won a game in the NCAA Tournament before he arrived, built it into a conference champion, made the 2023 NCAA Tournament, advanced all the way to the Final Four — and he now has FAU on track to make a second straight NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. That’s impressive even if this season has been filled with