Indiana bumps Woodson’s pay to leading 3 in Huge Ten

Aug 18, 2023, 10:19 AM ET

Indiana has actually offered males’s basketball coach Mike Woodson a $1 million yearly raise after he led the Hoosiers to back-to-back NCAA competition appearances in his very first 2 years on the job.The university revealed Woodson’s brand-new average income of $4.2 million on Friday, noting it makes him among the top 3 highest-paid guys’s basketball coaches in the Big Ten. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo leads the conference at approximately $6.2 million per season on a five-year agreement he reached in August 2022.

“Upon his arrival, Coach Woodson right away re-inserted our program into the national conversation both in terms of a raised level of success on the court and in recruiting,” Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson stated in a declaration. “I understood that returning our program to the level that Hoosier fans rightfully anticipate would be a procedure that wouldn’t take place over night. I have actually been very pleased with the steps we have actually taken during the last 2 years. I believe under Coach Woodson’s management, we have actually positioned the program to contend at the greatest levels in recruiting, which in turn will enable us to compete at the highest levels within the Big Ten and in the NCAA Tournament.”

Woodson stays under agreement through 2026-27.

Indiana is 44-26 under Woodson the previous two seasons, reaching the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament last season prior to losing to Miami.