NCAA Basketball: Top 10 impact head coaching hires from 2010 offseason

1. Dana Altman (Oregon)

Oregon won the very first NCAA Tournament, but there really wasn’t a whole lot to celebrate in the near-century since then. The program has seen levels of success over the years, but there was never really a long stretch where the Ducks were one of the nation’s best teams. They were on the hunt for a new coach in 2010, coming off a pair of less than successful seasons, but they found the right coach to elevate the Ducks brand.

Dana Altman was already a very successful coach long before he took the Oregon job. His career began at the junior college level before joining Lon Kruger’s staff at Kansas State. Altman would spend time as head coach at Marshall, Kansas State, and Creighton, picking up more than 20 years of D1 experience, and leading eight teams to the NCAA Tournament.

Altman’s Ducks won the CBI championship in his first year, but they weren’t going to settle for that kind of runs. He’s led Oregon to seven NCAA Tournaments, highlighted by an Elite Eight in 2016, and the program’s first Final Four in 2017 since that NCAA title in 1939. They’ve won the last two Pac-12 regular-season titles and Altman has quite clearly built the Pac-12’s best program moving forward.

We have completed our look at the top coaching hires back from 2010; which of these hires do you think were some of the best from that year?