Athlon ranks top 30 BB coaches in the country

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Ranking the nation's top major college basketball coaches


Athlon Sports ranked each coach in the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC along with the top 20 coaches from outside those seven conferences.

The rankings presented a difficult task. The job of a college coach is multi-faceted. The best coaches in college basketball excel in a handful of areas -- recruiting, talent development, teaching and preparation, game-day tactics and motivation. The best coaches tend to be well-rounded, able to do handle all with equal skill.

Those were the factors we weighed in our conference-by-conference rankings, and that continues in our national rankings. We also examined each coach’s success in the regular season and the postseason. In many cases, we took into account what the coach has done with his current program in addition to previous stops in his career.

http://www.athlonsports.com/college-basketball/ranking-nations-top-college-basketball-coaches

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Ranking the nation's top midmajor college basketball coaches


In the last two weeks, Athlon Sports has ranked every coach in the seven powerful basketball conferences -- the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC.

Certainly, those leagues do not corner the market on great college basketball coaches. In particular, non-Pac-12 Western programs have enjoyed some of the best eras in their programs’ histories in the last few years. Therefore, it’s no surprise coaches like Mark Few, Randy Bennett, Dave Rose and Steve Fisher are prominently featured here.

Here are the best of the best from the conferences we have not featured yet -- the West Coast, the Mountain West, the Ohio Valley, the Missouri Valley and more.

http://www.athlonsports.com/college-basketball/ranking-big-time-basketball-coaches-mid-major-conferences