With plenty of hype about Murray State’s Matt McMahon and San Francisco’s Todd Golden as hot mid-major men’s basketball coaches, many Florida fans coveting such a coach for the program’s new vacancy probably tuned into the NCAA Tournament first round game between their teams on Thursday night as a means of scouting.
And those fans surely liked plenty of what they saw, as the Racers and Dons played a thrilling overtime game that Murray State won, 92-87, despite the Dons erasing a late lead with a 10-0 run that spilled into overtime.
So it should be little surprise that Florida has hired one of the coaches from that game — but just a bit of a surprise that it’s Golden, not McMahon, headed to the SEC.