Steve Pikiell just received a $1 million raise, but his salary would have to double again to be in line with the Big Ten men’s basketball coaches who led their teams into the NCAA Tournament.
Rutgers hired Pikiell as men’s basketball coach last week at a starting salary of $1.4 million, which is the lowest in the Big Ten. At the other end of the scale, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo received $4,150,359 in compensation this season, according to a newly released USA Today database.
Izzo and the other five full-season-long Big Ten coaches who were part of March Madness – Indiana’s Tom Crean, Michigan’s John Beilein, Iowa’s Fran McCaffery, Purdue’s Matt Painter and Maryland’s Mark Turgeon – earned an average of $2.