NCAA Basketball: The Starting Five of College Head Coaches

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Mark Price/ Point Guard/6-foot-0, 170 lbs.

This is going to be the pick where all the controversy is.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

There are so many point guards that are coaching in the college ranks right now that have NBA experience it is ridiculous.

This spot could have gone to about five other coaches that I could think of and one assistant coach that I know for a fact would be a starter on this team if he had a head coaching gig.

But we are going to roll with Mark Price because he can flat out knock it down from deep and at one point in his NBA career might have been a Top 5 point guard in the league.

He averaged 17.4 points per contest while he was at Georgia Tech from 1982 to 1986.

Price was named consensus second team All-American for his 1984-85 season where he averaged 16.7 points and 4.3 assists while shooting 48.3% from the field.

He was taken with the 25th pick of the second round in the 1986 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks and then was dealt to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

While in the NBA, he was on four All-Star teams and named Third-Team All-NBA three times while garnering First-Team All-NBA honors once in the 1992-93 season.

Price received his first head coaching job this past offseason when the University of Charlotte hired him to be their head man after being an assistant coach in the NBA with the Charlotte Hornets.

He had been rumored to be interested in the coaching vacancy at Georgia Tech when it was open after Paul Hewitt’s dismissal.

But his alma mater decided to go a different route and chose to bring in Brian Gregory instead.

Price is going to give this team another outside shooter who can run a team and be deadly on pick and rolls with Danny Manning.

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