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NCAA Basketball: Ranking all 68 head coaches in 2024 NCAA Tournament

Mar 16, 2024; New York City, NY, USA; Connecticut Huskies head coach Dan Hurley cuts down the net
Mar 16, 2024; New York City, NY, USA; Connecticut Huskies head coach Dan Hurley cuts down the net / Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
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After months of college basketball games we have reached the NCAA Tournament. Selection Sunday revealed the field of 68 and those teams now prepare to go to battle in the coming weeks with the ultimate goal of cutting down those nets in Phoenix.

These teams did not get here by accident. Not only did it take great performances across the last few months, it also took years of practice and hard work from each player on these rosters. It took years of training from everyone in all 68 programs to get their teams onto the sport’s biggest stage. This all took years of efforts from the coaching staffs, not only building their current rosters but all the years beforehand.

There will be memories made in the coming weeks, while some of these programs and players have already seen their lives changed just by making the Big Dance. These programs were each carefully built by their coaching staffs and largely by the head coaches. It takes a major effort to construct and coach an NCAA Tournament program and the head coaches who’ve made this happen deserve a ton of credit.

Today we’ll be looking at every single program’s head coach. We’ll be taking a deep dive and ranking all 68 head coaches in the NCAA Tournament, from the legends of the game to the younger coaches making their first trips into the Tournament field. This is not a ranking based on how these programs compare to one another but solely on the resumes, accomplishments, and successes of the head coaches. Let’s get right into those rankings.