The NCAA Tournament is officially underway, but the coaching carousel has already been in high gear for weeks now.
Recent headlines from recent days:
We’ve hit that part of the cycle where a lot of stuff just sort of suspends in the air as the NCAA Tournament determines the cadence of a lot of different timelines at schools waiting to hire or fire. The one exception ended up being Indiana as it announced the hiring of West Virginia’s Darian DeVries on Tuesday evening. It’s crazy: Indiana and West Virginia both unexpectedly missing the NCAA Tournament enabled one school to poach the other’s coach.
DeVries, who will replace Mike Woodson in Bloomington, was approached by Indiana on Monday in the wake of WVU missing the NCAA tourney, sources told CBS Sports, and the two sides were able to reach a deal for six years at nearly $5 million annually late Tuesday afternoon. DeVries met with IU officials in person on Monday night. DeVries’ buyout, all told, is north of $6 million to leave West Virginia, sources said.
A wild turn of events. And now WVU has to get its fourth coach in as many years.
The most recent firing of the cycle came Monday, when Iona severed ties with Tobin Anderson after just two seasons. It landed as a shock in college basketball. Anderson went 33-34, but just got Iona to the MAAC title game. His successor will be a New Orleans Pelicans Dan Geriot, sources said, with the announcement planned for Thursday (if not potentially sooner).
Remember to check back in here day, multiple times, as this story/page is getting updated with each new notable hiring/firing.
We’re at 26 job flips as of Wednesday morning and that number is going to increase as the week goes on. We’ll almost definitely hit at least 40 coaching moves in this cycle — and 50-plus wouldn’t be a surprise at all. That said, I don’t expect 2025 to hit the levels of absurdity that 2024 did, when there was a record 68 job swaps. Be sure to bookmark this page. It will get daily updates moving forward.
