Coaching Carousel 2025: Full List of New Hires and Shifting Positions Across Top College Basketball Programs.

The 24/25 college basketball season is coming to an end. Take a look at programs that have replaced their head coaches.

A head coach’s job is fragile, as coaches take the fall for every failure. It is easier to discard the head coach than to empty a roster of underperforming players. Let’s look at college programs that have changed their head coaches ahead of the 2025/26 season.

The first coaching change of the men’s college basketball season happened in Nov. when Virginia’s Tony Bennett retired and Amir Abdul Rahman’s sudden death at South Florida. Since then, multiple programs have fired and replaced their head coaches.

Florida State appointed Luke Loucks, Alex Jensen left the Dallas Mavericks to become Utah’s new head coach, and Miami has appointed Duke’s assistant Jai Lucas.

On the first day of First Four games in the 2025 NCAA tournament, Indiana announced  Darian DeVries as new head coach from West Virginia, Will Wade joined NC State after McNeese were eliminated from the NCAA tournament in the round of 32, Sean Miller went to Texas after Rodney Terry was fired.

List of Colleges and Their New Head Coach.

1. Alabama A&M – Donte Jackson
2. Arkansas State – Ryan Pannone
3. Bellarmine – Doug Davenport
4. Bryant – Jamion Christian
5. Campbell – John Andrzejek
6. Chicago State – Landon Bussie
7. Colorado State – Ali Farokhmanesh
8. Columbia – Kevin Hovde
9. Drake –  Eric Henderson
10. Florida State –  Luke Loucks
11. Fordham – Mike Magpayo
12. Indiana – Darian DeVries
13. Iona – Dan Geriot
14. Iowa –  Ben McCollum
15. La Salle – Darris Nichols
16. Longwood –  Ronnie Thomas
17. Louisiana Lafayette – Quannas White
18. Louisiana Monroe – Phil Cunningham
19. Maryland – Buzz Williams
20. McNeese State – Bill Armstrong
21. Miami – Jai Lucas
22. Minnesota – Niko Medved
23. Murray State – Ryan Miller
24. Navy – Jon Perry
25. NC State – Will Wade
26. New Mexico – Eric Olen
27. North Texas – Danyial Robinson
28. Oral Roberts – Kory Barnett

29. Penn – Fran McCaffery
30. Radford – Zach Chu
31. Sacramento State – Mike Bibby
32. South Dakota State – Bryan Petersen
33. South Florida – Bryan Hodgson
34. St. Francis (PA) – Luke McConnell
35. Stephen F. Austin – Matt Braeuer
36. Texas – Sean Miller
37. UC San Diego – Clint Allard
38. UNLV – Josh Pastner
39. Utah – Alex Jensen

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40. VCU – Phil Martelli, Jr.
41. Villanova – Kevin Willard
42. Virginia – Ryan Odom
43. West Virginia – Ross Hodge
44. Xavier – Richard Pitino

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