Below is an updated IU basketball coaching search hot board after more than a week since the program publicly announced it will have a job opening. We continue to show the candidates in four categories: Tier 1, Tier 2, other names to know, and the candidates that seem unlikely at this point.
Moves from version 1. These are the candidates where we believe Indiana will have the heaviest level of interest, and there will be enough reciprocal interest to merit a serious pursuit.
They are listed in that order of likely mutual interest. With Brad Stevens ostensibly off the board, we suspect Scott Dolson will focus his primary energy on May. May has demonstrated the ability to turn around a completely dormant program in Florida Atlantic.
He led them to the Final Four. And now he is doing the exact job at Michigan that needs to be done at Indiana.
But he reached only one Final Four in that span. Cronin is a Cincinnati native. His defenses have generally been better than the offense, but he did boast three-straight KenPom top offenses from All Drew has done is complete the greatest rebuild in college basketball history. It reached its completion in , as he led Baylor to its first National Championship and the first Big 12 title in school history. Drew is an Indiana native who coached at Valparaiso and attended Butler.
