Sources: Mississippi State coach gets extension

Pete Thamel, ESPNMay 20, 2024, 01:13 PM ET Mississippi State has extended the agreement of coach Chris Jans through the 2027-28 season and offered him a pay raise that begins at$ 1 million annually, sources told ESPN.Jans will make$

4.2 million in base salary next season, bumping him from $3.2 million last year. That raise will put amongst Jans the leading half of SEC basketball coaches. The deal includes pay boosts and efficiency incentives, per sources. Mississippi State has actually extended the contract of coach Chris Jans through the 2027-28 season and offered him a pay raise that begins at $1 million per year after leading the group to back-to-back NCAA tournaments in his two seasons in Starkville. Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports

Jans has actually led Mississippi State to back-to-back NCAA competitions in his 2 seasons in Starkville, winning 21 games in both of his seasons. He’s 42-27 total and the back-to-back NCAA looks are the school’s very first because reaching the 2008 and 2009 NCAA tournaments.The school extended and bumped up Jans ‘salary to ride that momentum and reveal the school is substantially purchased basketball. MSU has gone 8-10 in the SEC in both of Jans’ seasons, which culminated with losses to Pittsburgh in the First Four of the NCAA tournament in 2023 and to No. 9 seed Michigan State in the 2024 NCAA competition. Jans’groups combined for three SEC competition wins throughout his two seasons there.Jans came to Mississippi State from New Mexico State.

He holds the difference of being the last coach to beat UConn in the NCAA competition, knocking the No. 5 seed Huskies out as the coach at No. 12 NMSU in a first-round upset in 2022. In eight seasons as a head coach at 3 various Division I schools, Jans has a profession record of 185-71 and 5 NCAA competition looks.( He had a 25-win group at New Mexico State that won the WAC regular-season title the season that COVID-19 cancelled the NCAA competition.)