Indiana basketball coaching search Hot Board 1.0: Home runs, proven winners or roll the dice

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BLOOMINGTON — If, or perhaps when, a resolution arrives regarding Mike Woodson’s future at Indiana, it could mark the third time in 10 years IU searches for a new men’s basketball coach.

Woodson guided the Hoosiers to back-to-back NCAA tournaments, after six years out of the field, and he restored the program’s NBA pipeline. But Indiana missed the field again last season and, having lost six of seven, looks on course to do so again, creating the environment for potential change.

If that comes, what does it look like? The job is not what it has been historically, in ways both good and bad. There will be pressure on Scott Dolson, Indiana’s fifth-year athletic director, to land a hire that elevates it back to the blue-blood status it has by now clearly lost in the national college basketball landscape.

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Who puts IU back onto that elite shelf? Let’s dig into some names.

The sales pitch

Indiana won’t mince words this time around — the program is too far removed from its former status to claim that as its birthright anymore.

The pitch, instead, is the job might be a more attractive proposition for someone with designs on restoring that luster right now than it has been in decades.

IU’s position in the Big Ten means the Hoosiers will be able to maximize revenue-sharing opportunities, and it’s likely this athletic department (even while aggressively funding football) will commit significant resources to men’s basketball as well. Already, Indiana is believed to have a top-10, if not top-five, NIL money pool nationally, which it can now bolt onto revenue sharing for a double-barreled promise of roster-building resources to its next coach.

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The Big Ten itself is a pitch — it is one of two conferences most likely to shape the college sports power structure in the future. It’s far better…

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Author : Indianapolis Star

Publish date : 2025-02-07 16:02:00

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