UConn may have been dethroned from atop college basketball last season, but Dan Hurley hasn’t lost his spot as the game’s top coach. For the second preseason in a row, Hurley was voted No. 1 in the sport by a panel of CBS Sports writers. He is one of three two-time national champions in this year’s edition of college basketball’s Top 25 And 1 Coaches. The others are No. 3 Rick Pitino of St. John’s and No. 4 Bill Self of Kansas.
While the rankings are mostly inhabited by well-established coaching veterans who have spent years – many of them decades – building their reputations, this year’s ranking also includes some new faces who are relatively new to the high-major scene. Most notably, Florida’s Todd Golden has surged from unranked to No. 7 after leading the Gators to a national championship.
Kentucky’s Mark Pope, Louisville’s Pat Kelsey and first-year Iowa coach Ben McCollum are also making their first appearances in the ranking of college basketball’s top coaches. Among the biggest risers this year are Michigan’s Dusty May, whose reputation continues to rise following a successful debut campaign at Michigan. Duke’s Jon Scheyer is up several spots, too, after guiding the Blue Devils to the Final Four in his third season.
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At 38, Scheyer is the youngest coach on the list, edging the 40-year old Golden.
Here is our panel’s collective ranking of the Top 25 and 1 college basketball coaches as the new season…
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