Good morning.
It’s been over a week since Vanderbilt relieved Bryce Drew of his duties as head coach. But with this year’s Final Four set, it’s worth pondering the backgrounds of the four head coaches.
The most obvious “sure thing” in the Final Four would appear to be Bruce Pearl, who took the Auburn job five years ago after a seven-year run as the head coach at Tennessee, and his Auburn tenure has gone almost exactly as expected — or actually better. Pearl never made the Final Four at Tennessee, after all, though he did win a Division II national title at Southern Indiana.