Male’s college basketball training changes for 2025-26
Jun 18, 2025, 02:00 PM ET
The 2024-25 males’s college basketball season tipped in November with 2 interim head coaches: at Virginia, following Tony Bennett’s unforeseen retirement, and at South Florida, following Amir Abdur-Rahim’s unexpected death. The coaching carousel started spinning then, with more teams signing up with– or set to sign up with at the end of the season.Among the most significant of those jobs: Miami, Florida State, Indiana, Utah and Texas.Duke assistant Jai Lucas being tapped to take control of the Hurricanes is now old news– together with Dallas Mavericks assistant Alex Jensen taking control of at Utah and Sacramento Kings assistant Luke Loucks going to coach his alma mater, Florida State. So, too, is the news that came out on the first day of First 4 games, that Indiana was working with Darian DeVries away from West Virginia, after just one year with the Mountaineers. Will Wade agreed to join NC State after his 12-seeded McNeese Cowboys were gotten rid of from the NCAA tournament in the round of 32. And days after falling to Xavier in the First 4, Rodney Terry was fired at Texas– and Musketeers head coach Sean Miller took the job in Austin. Richard Pitino took the Xavier task– which implies, yes, he’ll be training versus his daddy, Rick Pitino, in the Big East next season.Kevin Willard spent Maryland’s NCAA tournament run answering questions about whether he would take the Villanova
job. He accepted it as soon as the Terps were eliminated in the Sugary food 16. Taking his location in College Park will be Buzz Williams, with Bucky McMillan bringing Buckyball to Texas A&M and the SEC.We tracked all of the training firing and employing relocations in the guys’s game for the 2025-26 season in one complete list listed below. Coaches thought about interim are marked with an asterisk.Last upgraded: June 18 School: Out (57 )/ In(57 )Alabama A&M: Otis Hughley Jr./ Donte Jackson Alcorn State: Landon Bussie/ Jake Morton Arkansas State: Bryan Hodgson/ Ryan Pannone Bellarmine: Scott
Davenport/ Doug Davenport Bryant: Phil Martelli Jr./ Jamion Christian Campbell: Kevin McGeehan/ John Andrzejek Central Michigan: Tony Barbee/ Andy Bronkema Chicago State: Scott Spinelli/ Landon Bussie
Cleveland State: Daniyal Robinson/ Rob Summers Colorado State: Niko Medved/ Ali Farokhmanesh Columbia: Jim Engles/ Kevin Hovde Denver: Jeff Wulbrun/ Tim Bergstraser Drake: Ben McCollum/ Eric Henderson Florida A&M: Patrick Crarey II/ Charlie Ward Florida State: Leonard Hamilton/ Luke Loucks Fordham: Keith Urgo/ Mike Magpayo Grambling: Donte Jackson/ Patrick Crarey II High Point: Alan Huss/ Flynn Clayman Indiana: Mike Woodson/ Darian DeVries IU Indianapolis: Paul Corsaro/ Ben Howlett Iona: Tobin Anderson/ Dan Geriot Iowa: Fran McCaffery/ Ben McCollum La Salle: Fran Dunphy/ Darris Nichols Lipscomb: Lennie Acuff/ Kevin Carroll
Longwood: Griff Aldrich/ Ronnie Thomas Louisiana: Bob Marlin/ Quannas White Maryland: Kevin Willard/ Buzz Williams McNeese: Will Wade/ Bill Armstrong Miami: Jim Larrañaga/ Jai Lucas Minnesota: Ben Johnson/ Niko Medved Murray State: Steve Prohm/ Ryan Miller Navy: Ed DeChellis/ Jon Perry NC State: Kevin Keatts/ Will Wade
New Mexico: Richard Pitino/ Eric Olen North Florida: Matthew Driscoll/ Bobby Kennen * North Texas: Ross Hodge/ Daniyal Robinson Oral Roberts: Russell Springmann/ Kory Barnett Penn: Steve Donahue/ Fran McCaffery Radford: Darris Nichols/ Zach Chu Sacramento State: Michael Czepil */ Mike Bibby Samford: Bucky McMillan/ Lennie Acuff South Dakota State: Eric Henderson/ Bryan Petersen
South Florida: Amir Abdur-Rahim/ Bryan Hodgson
St. Francis( PA): Rob Krimmel/ Luke McConnell Stephen F. Austin: Kyle Keller/ Matt Braeuer Texas A&M: Buzz Williams/ Bucky McMillan Texas: Rodney Terry/ Sean Miller UC
Riverside: Mike Magpayo/ Gus Argenal UC San Diego: Eric Olen/ Clint Allard UL Monroe: Keith Richard/ Phil Cunningham UNLV: Kevin Kruger/ Josh Pastner Utah: Craig Smith/ Alex Jensen VCU: Ryan Odom/ Phil Martelli Jr.Villanova: Kyle Neptune/ Kevin Willard Virginia: Tony Bennett/ Ryan Odom West Virginia: Darian DeVries/ Ross Hodge Xavier: Sean Miller/ Richard Pitino