Top 10 Current NCAA College Basketball Coaches

      As I wrote about in my previous article....Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio wrote a national article on CBS Sports.com about how he believes Rick Pitino has fallen from the Elite ranks of college coaching. What is Elite anyway? The NCAA tournament has Elite being the top 8. Some may consider Elite being an even smaller number. Either way it got us at Widespread Sports thinking....Who are the top coaches in college basketball? We took information from the NCAA tournament over the last 5 years and scored the coaches teams performance. We awarded 10 points for a National Championship, 8 points for National Championship Runner up, 6 points for a Final Four, 4 points for an Elite Eight, 2 points for a Sweet Sixteen and 1 point for winning one game in the tournament. We awarded 0 points for making the tournament but not advancing to the 2nd round, and finally deducted 2 points if that coaches team didn't get into the tournament that year. Keep in mind these stats have been compiled from the last 5 years and have taken no consideration in what coaches have done in the current 2010 season because there has been no post season. Here is how our list shaped up....(the number next to the coaches name is the score they received based on tournament performance.

1-Roy Williams-31

2-Ben Howland-21

3-Tom Izzo-17

4-Bill Self-16

5-Billy Donovan-16

6-Jay Wright-14

7-Rick Pitino -13

8-Jim Calhoun-9

9-Jamie Dixon-8

10-Bruce Pearl-8

List Notables:

• No Surprise at #1 Roy Williams has won 2 National Titles
• Tom Izzo and Ben Howland have been nothing but consistent in the NCAA tournament 
• Billy Donovan has had a rough past few years but won back to back National Titles
• Rick Pitino in at #7 proves he truly isn't washed up and is still a very good coach 
• Bruce Pearl just barley makes the list by making 3 sweet 16's n the last 5 years, one with Milwaukee 
• Coach John Calipari misses being on the list because of a stripped appearance in the National Title
• Coach K I think would normally be listed as a top 10 coach, just not based on his last 5 years in the ncaa tournament