NCAA Basketball: Head coaches that could be on hot seat in 2019-20

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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 10: Head coach Tom Crean of the Indiana Hoosiers watches from the sidelines against the Wisconsin Badgers during the Big Ten Basketball Tournament at Verizon Center on March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

No. 1 – Tom Crean (Georgia)

Tom Crean has always been given to much credit for some of the players that came to his schools. One of them is at Georgia right now in Nic Claxton. He is a top level college player that could honestly by himself save Crean’s career. He is also aided by signing Anthony Edwards, but is that enough to fix a dreadful 11-21 first season.

He does have a long history of coaching with over 350 career wins, but he also has over 250 career losses. He has always had talent around him, but he has never won much. He struggles when it comes to some of the better competition, and the SEC has quickly become possibly the second or third best conference for basketball in the nation. He will have to deal with the force of Kentucky and what Rick Barnes and Bruce Pearl have built at Tennessee and Auburn respectively.

Crean needs to prove next season that he can compete not really win against some of those teams. Georgia has become a great school at basically every other big college sport except for basketball, I am sure they would love to change that , and I think their leash could be very short for Crean.

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Crean is on the coaching hot seat because he needs to win, because I think that is what Georgia is begging for. Maybe he just needs to beat some of the middle tier teams and win an SEC tournament game, while making the NIT. Whatever they decide he could be gone very quickly if he does not win.

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