NCAA Basketball: 5 head coaches that could be the next Scott Frost in 2022-23

Fred Hoiberg

It’s fitting that this article begins by looking at Nebraska’s basketball program which has had for more struggles than the football team, even in recent memory. Nebraska remains the only power conference program that has never won a single NCAA Tournament game. Every season’s Cinderella run or surprise upset of March Madness produces more postseason success than this Cornhuskers program has ever done.

Hoiberg’s lack of success in Lincoln might lead to his ouster sooner rather than later. He was very successful at Iowa State, his alma mater, before a rock stint leading the Chicago Bulls. Since arriving at Nebraska in 2019, there has been little to no progress for this program. Hoiberg is just 24-67 across these last three seasons without a horrific 9-50 mark in Big Ten conference play. The program won just 10 games last season and shows no sign of suddenly becoming a contender in one of the nation’s best conferences.

The argument can be made that three years isn’t enough time to turn around a basketball program, but Hoiberg’s Cornhuskers are barely showing signs of life. One of the biggest reasons he’s going to enter year four as head coach is that his buyout is so immense. However, if the Cornhuskers were willing to cast Frost aside early with a large buyout, could the same be coming for Hoiberg in the coming months? The bottom line is that Nebraska is bad and nobody takes them seriously in the Big Ten and that isn’t about to change.