NCAA Basketball rewind: Most impactful coaching hires after 2014 season

Take yourselves back to the year 2014. After a wild NCAA Basketball Tournament, it was Connecticut bringing home their fourth national championship, led by All-American Shabazz Napier, picking up his own second scoop of glory. Freshmen Jabari Parker and Andrew Wiggins were among the biggest stars, with Doug McDermott winning most national player of the year awards. Gregg Marshall won all the coach of the year awards after Wichita State’s 35-0 start to the season.

When the dust had settled, it was time for another active offseason in college basketball, meaning a few programs were faced with some difficult decisions. Head coaching changes became the first priority as the coaching carousel began to spin, with firings and retirements and other coaches jumping to other jobs. Plenty of teams were in the market for a new coach, with Boston College, California, Tennessee, and Wake Forest among the openings.

Getting the right leader to helm a college basketball program is important; this has been said time and time again and rings true. If you hire the right coach, the very fabric of the program could change for the better, though the opposite is also extremely true. We’ll be focusing back on that 2014 offseason and looking back to the best hires from that offseason. We don’t have time to run through all the hires that stood out from that offseason; we’ll instead focus on the ten best.

We’ll get right into the list, looking back at the ten best hires from seven seasons ago.