Top 50 Coaching Jobs

The annual coaching hires and fires among college basketball coaches got me thinking. What are the 50 best college basketball head coaching jobs?

I looked at:

-Prestige
-Overall success
-Success the last decade
-Ability to recruit



First Class:

1) North Carolina
2) Kentucky
3) Kansas
4) Duke
5) UCLA
6) Indiana

Indiana barely made the first list, but they get in by reputation alone. At least for another 5 years.


Business Class: 

7) Louisville
8) Ohio State
9) Arizona
10) Michigan State
11) Syracuse
12) Illinois
13) Uconn
14) Villanova
15) Georgetown

16) Texas
17) Florida
18) Maryland
19) Pittsburgh
20) St. Johns
21) Notre Dame


Economy Class

22) Oklahoma
23) Marquette
24) North Carolina State
25) Wisconsin
26) Arkansas
27) Washington
28) Purdue
29) Oklahoma State


Stand By:

30) USC
31) Michigan
32) Stanford
33) LSU
34) Tennessee
35) Missouri
36) Memphis
37) Oregon
38) West Virginia
39) Texas A&M
40) Kansas State
41) Cincinnati
42) Clemson
43) Wake Forest
44) Vanderbilt
45) Butler
46) Alabama
47) Xavier
48) Georgia Tech
49) Virginia
59) Gonzaga