While Bob Huggins was making a case for the Hall of Fame at West Virginia, Frank Martin was reaching the Final Four at South Carolina, Brad Underwood was signing a lucrative contract at Illinois and Matt Figger was earning his first shot as a head coach at Austin Peay, a man that used to coach alongside all of them at Kansas State was trying to put his life back together.
Dalonte Hill, once the nation’s highest-paid assistant with a salary of $423,750 and an invaluable recruiter during K-State’s basketball resurgence, hit rock bottom. A second drunk-driving arrest cost him his job at Maryland in 2013.