By 1967, Donoher was in his third season as head coach, having taken over for his mentor Tom Blackburn, who had died of cancer. Hes been a leader, a consoler and a rallyer when Michigan State needed one. Current Dayton coach Anthony Grant once played for him, and was a freshman on the 1984 Elite Eight team. To borrow a phrase from the great Chuck Noll, this new March Madness system's problems are many and they are great. Who is the oldest living coach to lead his team to a national championship game? Altman is among the more unassuming coaches on the list, but his work at Creighton and Oregon over the past three decades speaks for itself. Boeheim is 75, the oldest ever to coach in Division I men's basketball. He led FSU to win the ACC tournament in 2012, and helped them to the Sweet Sixteen in 2011. He dug the Volunteers out of that hole and has created a steady winner with both a SEC regular season title (2018) and tournament title last season that was the program's first since 1979. (1961-62 - 1963-64); Illinois (1974-75 - 1974-75); Memphis (1970-71 - 1973-74); UAB (1978-79 - 1995-96); UCLA (1975-76 - 1976-77); Valparaiso (1964-65 - 1969-70), Hofstra (1994-95 - 2000-01); Villanova (2001-02 - 2019-22), Tulsa (1991-92 - 1994-95); Georgia (1995-96 - 1996-97); Kentucky (1997-98 - 2006-07); Minnesota (2007-08 - 2012-13); Texas Tech (2013-14 - 2015-16); Memphis (2016-17 - 2017-18); High Point (2018-19 - 2019-22), Lamar University (1976-77 - 2005-06); Oklahoma (1980-81 - 1993-94); Southwestern (TX) (1971-72 - 1972-73); TCU (1994-95 - 2001-02), Bethel (IN) (1976-77 - 1986-87); Ind.-South Bend (1987-88 - 1987-88); Valparaiso (1988-89 - 2010-11), Pacific Lutheran (1945-46 - 1957-58); Washington (1971-72 - 1984-85); Washington St. (1958-59 - 1970-71), Manchester (1991-92 - 1994-95); Missouri St. (1995-96 - 1998-99); Iowa (1999-00 - 2006-07); New Mexico (2007-08 - 2012-13); UCLA (2013-14 - 2018-19); Nevada (2019-22), Florida St. (1966-67 - 1977-78); Georgia (1978-79 - 1994-95); Jacksonville (1997-98 - 2004-05), Muskingum (1919-20 - 1922-23); Davis & Elkins (1923-24 - 1934-35); Marshall (1935-36 - 1954-55), Southern Ind. He can be a polarizing figure, and nobody is accusing him of being the game's cleanest coach. I remember up there at Northwestern, when we won in that regional, Tom Frericks came in after that game and said, `Tonight we just built a new arena, Donoher said. Chapter 3: Getting recruited by the legend In just his eighth season as a college head coach, Musselman is relatively green compared to his peers. (1986-87 - 2002-03); Talladega (1964-65 - 1966-67); Tuskegee (1996-97 - 1999-00), Idaho (1990-91 - 1992-93); Utah St. (1993-94 - 1997-98); Iowa St. (1998-99 - 2002-03); Southern Miss. Unbeaten UCLA, a wizard named John Wooden and an unstoppable towering sophomore then called Lew Alcindor put an end to that. So, no. And Miami, coached by 73-year-old Jim Larranaga, isn't far outside at No. section: | slug: college-basketball-coaching-rankings-the-top-25-and-1-coaches-as-the-2022-23-season-gets-underway | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | Krzyzewski has just finished his 10-year term with the national basketball team, winning three Olympic gold medals and two World championships. We sort of gained on UCLA from the first time, Donoher said. Iowa States T.J. Otzelberger (24) is the kid of the bunch at 45 1/2, checking in five months younger than Marquettes Shaka Smart. He has covered college basketball for 43 years, including 39 Final Fours. Theyve been to the NCAA Tournament four times, including last year, their first since 2008. Joining the Big 12 Conference in July 2023. You didnt have time. In his 47th season, Boeheim is Syracuse basketball. Some of these coaches are living legends of the game while others are just thrilled on making their first trips to the NCAA Tournament. And the Syracuse head man who turned 77 on Nov. 14, 2021 has held that distinction for a couple years now. The highest-ranked head coach younger than 45 checks in at No. As the NBA embarks on a possible evolution (for now, it's an experiment) of its postseason format, the beginning of the 2021 NBA playoffs in the form of the 1st Play-in Tournament offers us 3. No longer is this a program maximizing lesser-heralded prospects as the little engine that could. Barnes has been fielding good basketball teams at orange-wearing football schools for the past three decades. At 67, he may be entering the twilight phase of his coaching journey, but he continues to lead the Spartans to the NCAA Tournament on an annual basis. The key imports that have joined Abmas: 74 perimeter threat Connor Vanover, who arrived from Arkansas and is averaging 12.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.4 blocks and more than one made three per game; Isaac McBride, averaging 12.4 points and shooting 43 perform from three in his second season after transferring from Vanderbilt; and UT-Arlington transfer Patrick Mwamba, second on the team in rebounds at 5.7 per game. Though it's hard to quantify, McDermott also deserves a lot of credit for reestablishing the program after its transition from the Missouri Valley Conference to the Big East for the 2013-14 season. But he is not the oldest. Few is still seeking his first national title, but even without that crowning achievement, it's still remarkable what he's accomplished at Gonzaga. Thats when the music stopped for Dayton. MORE: March Madness bracket predictions 5.0: Projecting the Field of 68 for 2022 NCAA Tournament. The Final Four made it all happen. Beard grinded from student manager to graduate assistant, to low-major assistant, to community college head coach. Still, Krzyzewski who has coached for six years as a septuagenarian is one of a select few coaches who have led teams into their 70s. Lloyd also gets some credit for the 21 years he spent helping Mark Few build Gonzaga into a national power. Since then, hes led them to 5 Ohio Valley Conference regular season titles and four tournament championships. OHanlon played in Sweden after his college playing career, and won championships there and in Venezuela as a head coach. He is so old he covered Bob Knight when he had dark hair and basketball shorts were actually short. He is currently the longest-tenured active coach in college basketball, and will complete his 47th season as of the completion of the 2021-22 season. Former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski ended the 2021-22 season and his coaching career with 1,202 victories, making him the all-time winningest coach in DI men's basketball history. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, how much he means to the school and how much the school means to him. Were going to proceed by ranking all 68 of these coaches from top to bottom. He's taken Houston to two Sweet 16s and two AAC regular. As Drew enters his 20th season on the job, Baylor has been a No. His Cougars are again expected to compete for the national title this season. It remains to be seen whether Krzyzewski's farewell tour ends with another national championship, but one thing is certain: His departure from the sport will mark the end of one of the greatest runs in college basketball history. Depending on if a coach had young children or not, May . Walton. In 1959, he and friend and former teammate Tom Frericks decided to drive to Louisville to see California edge West Virginia for the national championship. Drew took over at Baylor in 2003 with the program in the depths of despair. Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where its time to at least consider the possibility of Northwestern and Pittsburgh winning the Big Ten and ACC, respectively: FIRST HALF: Story lines for the final stretch. The Flyers took the Bruins to three overtimes before losing 111-100. Even with that blemish, which led to a six-year detour into the NBA assistant ranks, Sampson has proven himself as one of the profession's elite minds. Average years experience as a Division I head coach: 15.4. As Self embarks on Year 20 at Kansas, he is 16 for 19 on winning or sharing the Big 12 regular-season title, has nine Big 12 Tournament titles and two national championships. Since the most recent came only seven years after the last one, Donoher joked to the organizer, You dont have much confidence in my longevity. The older brother of the more famous Mike DAntoni, Dan was born on July 9, 1947. Build your customFanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis onAll College Basketball and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. Cronin wasn't even close to being UCLA's first choice, but as he embarks on his fourth season with the Bruins, it's clear he was the right choice. Overtime win over Western Kentucky, one-point escape of Tennessee, another overtime with Virginia Tech to get to the Final Four in Louisville. Newly hired coaches would have flown or driven across the country to evaluate high school prospects in the classes of 2021, 2022 and 2023. With the passing of Joe B. No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website. The rest of the story: The banner on display downtown was a replica of the original, but not the original, The Minutes was told. The Flyers returned nearly every player the next season. Hosting an Auburn team just one game behind it in the SEC standings, and aiming to strengthen its own NCAA rsum, Kentucky dominated the latter part of the first half and the final 20 minutes . There are 10 head coaches in division I mens basketball who are 68 and older, and even three that have already pushed past 70 heading into the 2016-2017 season: Cliff Ellis of Coastal Carolina, Steve Fisher of San Diego State and Jim Boeheim of Syracuse, while Mike Krzyzewski is right behind them. The Duke icon has only a month left in his storied career, as he announced prior to the start of the 2021-22 season that this would be his final year leading the Blue Devils on the hardcourt. After 46 years of coaching college basketball, Krzyzewski plans to retire after the 2021-22 season. Some of the highest-paid college basketball coaches in 2020 and 2021 include John Calipari at the University of Kentucky, Mike Krzyzewski at Duke University, and Jay Wright at Villanova. They might be ready to do it now, in their 50s. The title may be vacated, but it shall be remembered by a fan base that is still trying to keep its NCAA investigations and punishments straight. They had a three-point lead and the ball with 90 seconds left in regulation but couldnt close the deal. St. Billings (1981-82 - 1986-87); UC Irvine (1997-98 - 2009-10), Delaware (1995-96 - 1999-00); Notre Dame (2000-01 - 2019-22), Ohio St. (1976-77 - 1985-86); UNI (1986-87 - 1997-98); Western Mich. (1970-71 - 1975-76); Wittenberg (1962-63 - 1969-70), Alcorn (1969-70 - 2002-03); Texas Southern (1964-65 - 1968-69), Oklahoma (1975-76 - 1979-80); SMU (1980-81 - 1987-88); New Mexico (1988-89 - 1998-99); Baylor (1999-00 - 2002-03); Southwestern Christ. Krzyzewski himself has passed Chaney on the list of all-time oldest coaches, but will have to settle for third place behind Boeheim and Coastal Carolina's Cliff Ellis (aged 76). Even the top 25 guys just getting started as head coaches arent very young: second-year Arizona leader Tommy Lloyd (25) is 48, and Kansas State rookie boss Jerome Tang is 56. West Virginias Bob Huggins is 844-374 in his career, with previous DI stops at Akron, Cincinnati and Kansas State. Hall, 1967 National Championship, UCLA vs. Dayton, 9 big questions for February before March Madness, College basketball dictionary: 51 terms defined, How recent eventual March Madness men's champions did in their conference tournaments, 2023 Selection Sunday: Date, schedule, TV times, Marquette, Indiana leap into the top 6 of the men's college basketball Power 36 rankings, We're tracking all 32 NCAA men's basketball conference tournaments, auto bids for 2023, 2023 NCAA printable bracket, schedule for March Madness, Undefeated teams in DI college basketball, 5 stunners that rocked men's college basketball on the last Saturday before March, Arizona State's buzzer-beating 3-pointer from beyond half court shocks No. There are 363 men's college basketball programs competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. If it doesnt work out, maybe they can shoot for a 99 SEC regular-season record and a 1616 record overall. He doesnt go to games anymore The steps and the parking at my age, I feel more comfortable watching it on TV, he said but he keeps a close eye on things. They paid a lot of dues as assistants to fixtures Mark Few at Gonzaga and Scott Drew at Baylor, respectively. Average age: 55.6. With less than two weeks until a new college basketball season officially tips off, it's worth looking at some names to know in the coaching profession beyond Coach K, Juwan Howard . There have also been plenty of achievements, including winning the NCAA Tournament in 2003, making two more championship games and the Final Four five times, including in 2016. Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. Losing both ends of a Washington trip, and three games in a row, has backed the Ducks off the bubble. Here are the 10 longest-tenured active NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches (stats as of Feb. 18, 2023): T-10. As of the 202223 season, the longest-tenured head coach is expected to be Jim Boeheim, who has been head coach at Syracuse since 1976.[2]. Virginia missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013 last season, but it looks like just a momentary downturn for a program that was either a No. Davis is another second-year coach keeping elite company because of what he accomplished in Year 1 and because of his noteworthy history as a high-profile assistant. 9 or 10 seed at the moment in no small part by beating the Cyclones in Stillwater in January and in Ames Feb. 11. There, the Flyers faced North Carolina, whose young coach was also making his Final Four debut. Now in his 24th season with the Bulldogs, Few is 658-129 and has never missed an NCAA Tournament. Dates, TV schedule, locations, odds & more for the NCAA Tournament. NCAA Tournament Futures; . They are on the list of the top 26, but a generation has risen behind them -- led by Kansas' Bill Self,Gonzaga'sMark Few andBaylor'sScott Drew -- to comprise a new guard in the sport. Conference affiliations reflect those of the upcoming 202223 college basketball season. Five years later, he was gone as coach. Hes gone to the NCAA Tournament 8 times with San DiegoState, including making it to the Sweet Sixteen twice. The Panthers have other wins that now mean more on the resume (at Northwestern and North Carolina State, and home against Virginia and Miami), but at the time these were huge. Now in Year 16 at West Virginia, Huggins could use a good season to get the Mountaineers back on the trajectory they enjoyed earlier in his tenure. [+] against the Illinois Fighting Illini during the second half in the second round game of the 2021 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 21, 2021 in Indianapolis . Frericks was his boss as Dayton athletic director. (1912-13 - 1918-19); Haskell (1908-09 - 1908-09); Kansas (1907-08 - 1955-56), Cheyney State (1972-73 - 1981-82); Temple (1982-83 - 2005-06), Vanderbilt (1979-80 - 1980-81); Tampa (1983-84 - 2019-22), Missouri (1967-68 - 1998-99); UNI (1961-62 - 1966-67), Fresno St. (1995-96 - 2001-02); Long Beach St. (1968-69 - 1972-73); UNLV (1973-74 - 1991-92), Nyack (1975-76 - 1986-87); Geneva (1987-88 - 1995-96); Gannon (1996-97 - 2004-05); Youngstown St. (2005-06 - 2016-17), Marshall (1989-90 - 1989-90); Kansas St. (1990-91 - 1993-94); Creighton (1994-95 - 2009-10); Oregon (2010-11 - 2019-22), Wittenberg (1976-77 - 1988-89); Ohio (1989-90 - 2000-01); Western Caro. Still lives barely seven miles from the arena he helped build. Playing the bellicose victim card, while fun for some in theory, has its limitations in the real world. 2 on the NCAA's all-time wins list and has five Final Four appearances along with the 2003 national championship highlighting his resume. After months of basketball, 68 teams will face-off in basketballs ultimate tournament. The Bears had little history to draw upon and plenty of scandal to impede its rise. At just 52, he is already a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year and Baylor's winningest coach by nearly 200 games. His writing has also appeared on SI.com, Mens Health, and The Cauldron. At division I level he coached both UTSA and Loyola. They are the five oldest head coaches in ACC men's. We actually gave that game away. Its undoubtedly easier to make a name for oneself as a football assistant than a basketball assistant. Nonexistent? At 53, he is also younger than any of those ahead of him on the list. To think that a decade later, we would be in the same game, it was almost unimaginable, Donoher said. But whats united many of these teams have been the long efforts and passion of their head coaches. Required fields are marked *. Thats author Joseph Heller in the novel Catch-22, describing the remarkably unremarkable character Major Major. While he lacks the high-end NCAA Tournament success experienced by those above him on the list, he is among the most consistently successful coaches in the sport. In just his second year in Ann Arbor, Juwan How has earned college basketball's highest honor as a coach. A Minutes quartet of opportune sweeps that were finalized in February: Kentucky (32) sweeping Tennessee. Everything the man has said and done since the horrific (yet appallingly routine) gun violence on the East Lansing campus last week has underscored how much he means to the school and how much the school means to him. He is 55-29 with Incarnate Word since joining the Southland conference. The last time Michigan State missed the Big Dance was 1997 in Izzo's second season. In two losses to Big Blue, Tennessee averaged 55 points while making nine of 48 three-pointers and 11 of 24 free throws. Loos was born on March 5, 1947. A point guard for Marshall during the late 60s, he was a high school coach for 30 years before joining his brother and serving as an assistant on the Suns, Knicks and Lakers. In Chapel Hill on Feb. 1, Jamarius Burton made two pressurized free throws with three seconds left for a one-point win. For years, people have scoffed at the notion of vacated victories (31) as any sort of real NCAA penalty. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. This isnt a season (or an era) for the younger phenoms, which hasnt always been the case. That run of unprecedented dominance for the Cavaliers was highlighted by a 2019 national title, the first in program history. With Hall's passing, Denny Crum is now the oldest living national championship coach at 84, followed by Jim Harrick, Bob Knight and Nolan Richardson, all in their 80s. Dana Altman (39), Oregon. He was just too dominant a figure. We got beat 15, but that was out of the goodness of (Woodens) heart because it was more like 50. High Point's Tubby Smith is also coaching in his age-70 season. Lincoln Riley and Ryan Day took over Oklahoma and Ohio State in their 30s; Smart was hired at Georgia at age 40; last year Notre Dame and Oregon both hired 35-year-olds in Marcus Freeman and Dan Lanning. Chapter 1: Ending the era He pioneered a now-common transfer-heavy approach in four seasons at Nevada and has seamlessly implemented the philosophy in the SEC. There are 363 men's college basketball programs competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's Division I. [1] Each program employs a head coach. Donoher said hes doing OK at 90. First season: 2003-04. (1987-88 - 1995-96); Indiana (PA) (1996-97 - 2005-06); Francis Marion (2006-07 - 2019-20), CSU Bakersfield (1987-88 - 1996-97); Mont. For the first time in MVC history the Conference has five teams with 20+ wins prior to the league tournament. Though his 16-year run at Louisville ended in flames and the program's 2013 national title was vacated, his winning track record dates back to stints at Boston and Providence in the 1980s. -- As selected by voting from CBS Sports' Gary Parrish, Matt Norlander, Kyle Boone and David Cobb. This ranking is entirely based on the accomplishments and acumen of the head coach, not on the state of their program or how their team could fare in this years Big Dance. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. Floridas only moments of distinction were in the 2021 NCAA tournament, when it followed a thrilling overtime win over Virginia Tech in the first round with an upset loss to Oral Robertsbalancing out those brief fluctuations of the excitement meter. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel/USA Today Network. In 2017, he guided the program to its first Final Four since 1939. Lots of people remember how Bill Walton and the UCLA championship streak was stopped in the Final Four by David Thompson and North Carolina State. Pittsburgh (35) sweeping North Carolina. 6-keys: media/spln/collegebasketball/reg/free/stories, at You just went out and played. The fact that he's turned them into a national power is clear evidence that he's among the best in the profession. Is a team's performance in the single-elimination conference tournament a good predictor of how it will do on the biggest stage? Named for John McLendon, the first Black men's basketball coach at a predominantly white university, the program drew high-profile support from the likes of John Calipari, Patrick Ewing, Tommy. The NCAA Division III mens basketball committee announced today the field of 64 teams slated to compete for the 2023 NCAA Division III mens basketball championship. 7 Arizona, Indiana outruns Purdue, UNC and Florida State earn stunning wins and more from a men's hoops Saturday, How two HBCUs won an NCAA tournament game in the same year for the first time, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. But 1967 was not the last memorable March for Donohers program. Krzyzewski, 75, has created a dynasty that will be difficult to match in the upcoming years. 10 Oldest Coaches in College Basketball There are 10 head coaches in division I men's basketball who are 68 and older, and even three that have already pushed past 70 heading into the. About three years later we were playing in it. If not for the premature ending to the 2020 season, he may have a third national title to his credit. Together, they had an idea of taking Flyers basketball to a new level, including a more modern place to play. North Carolina struggled at times during the regular season in Davis' first season but turned it on late and made an improbable run to the national championship game. Eight national titles have been won by coaches in their 30s (most recently Jim Valvano in 1983), and several all-time greats won their first championship by 45 (Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan, Bill Self). Now in his 28th season, Izzo is among the most-respected in the profession by his peers. He was born on August 24, 1948. He kept his word. Theyve won the Mountain West regular season title four times in the last five years. Tom Izzo (38), Michigan State. Boeheims official NCAA record is 888-347 (.719), accounting for the aforementioned 101 vacated wins. 2023 NCAA | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Dayton upsets Ohio State in a 2014 in-state matchup in the round of 64, 8 classic NCAA tournament games coached by Joe B. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest. But the Panthers are on the bubble.. LOL. 32. He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. Other legends such asMichigan State'sTom Izzo (67),Houston'sKelvin Sampson (67),Tennessee'sRick Barnes (68),West Virginia'sBob Huggins (69),Iona'sRick Pitino (70),Miami'sJim Larranaga (73),Florida State'sLeonard Hamilton (74) andSyracuse'sJim Boeheim (77) are either approaching or enjoying the twilight of their careers. As pointed out by Mark Titus of The Ringer, only a few notable coaches have coached in their 70s, including Phog Allen, Ray Meyer, Eddie Sutton, Lou Henson, Jerry Tarkanian, Steve Fisher, Lefty Driesell, Adolph Rupp and Lute Olsen. They have floated inconspicuously between No. But as he told a local reporter about almost never leaving his wife, This is where I think I belong. It didn't happen overnight, but he's built Baylor into a true national power. This hasnt been a good Kentucky team defensivelyexcept when playing the Vols. Since taking over theyre been to the NCAA tournament three times, last time in 2015. Born on October 5, 1948, Dunphy has been a head coach at the division I level since 1989. Each week, The Minutes highlights a team that has found a way to construct a winning roster during these transient times in the sport. That said, the entirety of Boeheim's tenure came with Syracuse, whereas Kryzewski spent five years at Army before joining Duke for a 42-year run. 2023. 2022-23. Average years experience as a Division I head coach: 15.4. All betting content is intended for an audience ages 21+. Im looking at them on the floor right now, he said. At 71, Hamilton is the fifth-oldest head coach in the nation. Ellis, born on December 5, 1945, coached Cumberland, South Alabama (two NCAA tournaments), Clemson (one Sweet Sixteen) and Auburn (two Sweet Sixteens, one SEC regular season title, AP Coach of the year in 1999) before taking the jobin Conway with the Chanticleers in 2007. We did regroup and went to New York for the NIT. 1 or No. I am? The point here, of course, is that no such banner can hang inside Louisvilles home arena, the KFC Yum Center, since the original was taken down as part of sanctions for the infamous sex-workers-in-the-basketball-dorm scandal. He still visits with his old players. At 51, he's the youngest coach in our top 10, and it's easy to envision Cronin landing even higher in the years to come as some of the sport's elder statesmen retire. Of the Ducks' eight regular season conference titles in the past 100+ years, four have come under Altman. The Pokes trailed by as many as 16 points and didnt take their first lead until 3:09 remaining. It has been 55 years since he led upstart Dayton to the 1967 championship game with a truly magical trip through March. The single most important aspect of the Golden Eagles success was who didnt transfer. His 2019-20 team that finished 26-5 and won the ACC regular season title could have been a legacy-enhancing NCAA Tournament squad if not for the event's cancellation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Grant Weatherford of Georgia Southern (25) and Frederick Scott of Boston College (25) and Tennessee's John Fulkerson (24, will be 25 in. While Kentucky fans are getting antsy for another deep postseason run, Calipari continues to recruit at a top-notch level and is a three-time Naismith Coach of the Year with enough tread on the tires to continue building on his already immense legacy. DI indoor T&F championship selections revealed, How La. 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There currently seems to be a greater willingness to toss the keys to good jobs at a younger coach in college football than college basketball. The Bruins jumped ahead 20-4 and breezed to a 79-64 victory, the first of seven titles in row. He is also among the oldest to have ever done it. That distinction belongs to another ACC contemporary. Here are the other coaches to have coached 40-plus seasons in NCAA history: Zac Al-Khateeb is a content producer for The Sporting News. Theres no reason to believe that anyone on this list couldnt work their way up the coaching echelon in the coming years. For more information, please read our Legal Disclaimer. The oldest head coach in Division I, Boeheim has been the Syracuse head coach since 1976, when they were a division I independent school, joining the old Big East in 1979 (theyve been in the ACC since 2013). The Gators are 8865 in that time, 4539 in the SEC. 2:43 am ET. 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