Chris Mullin and Bobby Hurley had two of the last teams picked for the 2019 NCAA tournament field. But they would have been among the earliest selected in a pickup game of this year's tournament coaches.
Mullin (St. John's) and Hurley (Arizona State), who will face off Wednesday night when their teams meet in the First Four, are the rare coaches in the field who were household names before they ever walked a collegiate sideline. The highest level of basketball reached by the head coaches in the 2019 field of 68 breaks down like this: