NCAA Basketball: Ranking all 363 D-I head coaches for 2022-23 season

40. Andy Enfield (USC) (Last year: 54)

• Overall record: 224-146

A former NBA shooting coach and proficient scorer in his own right, Enfield’s collegiate coaching journey began with a stint under Leonard Hamilton at Florida State. His head coaching career got off to a hot start, leading Florida Gulf Coast to the Sweet Sixteen as a 15-seed in just his second season. He jumped coasts, landing at USC back in 2013, and has guided the Trojans for nearly a decade. He’s taken the Trojans to a number of postseason bids, including an Elite Eight run in 2021 and a 26-win campaign last year.

39. Mark Adams (Texas Tech) (Last year: 139)

• Overall record: 71-100

One of NCAA basketball’s finest performances last season was Texas Tech during Adams’ first season as head coach. He’s a long-time collegiate head coach, with more than two decades at several schools, with much of that coaching record coming at Texas-Pan American in the 90’s. He spent the last six years with Chris Beard before succeeding him this season, and Adams’ defensive intensity clearly remains with the Red Raiders. Texas Tech finished 27-10 in his debut season and made it to the Sweet Sixteen.

38. Randy Bennett (Saint Mary’s) (Last year: 42)

• Overall record: 480-200

Bennett spent a number of years as a collegiate assistant before getting his shot, including a near-decade at San Diego and a five-year stint under Lorenzo Romar at a pair of schools. That shot finally came when Saint Mary’s hired him in 2001, and this prosperous marriage has lasted more than two decades. In a WCC dominated by Gonzaga for much of this time, Bennett has done amazing work to keep Saint Mary’s as an impressive program, leading the Gaels to eight NCAA Tournaments and a boatload of victories, including a first-round win in last year’s Big Dance.

37. Greg Gard (Wisconsin) (Last year: 55)

• Overall record: 144-78

There’s been a lot of success at Wisconsin since the turn of the century and Gard has been around for all of it. A former player and longtime assistant under Bo Ryan, he arrived as an assistant in 2001 and was named Ryan’s successor back in December 2015. Gard led the Badgers to two straight Sweet Sixteens in his first two seasons. He’s now led the Badgers to a pair of Big Ten regular season titles, including this past season, winning 25 games with a talented Wisconsin squad in one of his finest seasons to date.

36. Dan Hurley (Connecticut) (Last year: 40)

• Overall record: 224-152

Hurley has been phenomenal at inheriting programs in rough shape and turning them into winners, something he did at Rhode Island and is starting to do with the Huskies. A former successful high school coach, he had a great spurt at Wagner before leading Rhode Island to a pair of NCAA Tournaments and first-round victories. Hurley came to Connecticut in 2018 and has helped put the Huskies back in a solid position, appearing in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons; their first two years back in the Big East.

35. Porter Moser (Oklahoma) (Last year: 32)

• Overall record: 312-258
• Final Four in 2018

A household name after what he did at Loyola-Chicago, Moser has quite the overall coaching resume. An alumnus of Creighton, he had a number of coaching stops, including D1 head coaching stints at Little Rock and Illinois State. After time with Rick Majerus at Saint Louis, Moser spent a decade transforming Loyola-Chicago into a winning basketball program, leading them to the Final Four in 2018 and Sweet Sixteen in 2021. Oklahoma lured him away last season, with Moser’s 19-16 debut with the Sooners, not an awful start but certainly just the beginning.

34. Shaka Smart (Marquette) (Last year: 35)

• Overall record: 291-155
• Final Four in 2011

More than a decade has passed since Smart’s miracle run at VCU but he may be reinventing himself with the Golden Eagles. Smart’s head coaching career got off to an impressive start, leading 11-seed VCU to the Final Four in 2011 in his second season. Four more NCAA Tournaments followed before Texas brought him to the Big 12. After failing to win a single game in the Big Dance over the next six years, Smart was dismissed by Texas but has bounced back with Marquette. The Golden Eagles were hot and cold last season, with a 19-win campaign that ended in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

33. Buzz Williams (Texas A&M) (Last year: 38)

• Overall record: 304-192

Williams surprised some people when he took the Texas A&M job in 2019, but the native of Texas was simply returning home and was previously an Aggies assistant under Billy Gillispie. A very prosperous head coaching career had already seen him take Marquette to an Elite Eight and Virginia Tech to their first ever Sweet Sixteen. Progress started slowly with the Aggies, but Williams had a breakthrough this season, winning 27 games and nearly taking the SEC Tournament before settling for a run to the NIT title game.

32. Juwan Howard (Michigan) (Last year: 30)

• Overall record: 61-32

One of Michigan’s finest basketball players returned home as head coach in 2019 and now Howard enters his fourth season leading the Wolverines. He played in the NBA for nearly two decades and spent six years on the bench of the Miami Heat, but this represents his first head coaching or collegiate coaching stop. Overall, it’s been solid, as Howard led the Wolverines to an Elite Eight and Big Ten regular season title in his second season, followed by last year’s surprise run to the Sweet Sixteen as an 11-seed.

31. Fran McCaffery (Iowa) (Last year: 36)

• Overall record: 493-339

McCaffery enters his thirteenth year leading the Hawkeyes and has been a fantastic pillar for this program for over a decade. Before coming to Iowa, he had a long stint as an aide at Notre Dame, led Lehigh and UNC Greensboro to the Big Dance, and took Siena to a pair of first-round wins in the NCAA Tournament. Results in the postseason have been moderate at best, but McCaffery has taken the Hawkeyes to six NCAA Tournaments, including a third-straight trip this season. Iowa also won the Big Ten Tournament and their 26 wins were the most in McCaffery’s tenure.