Kentucky basketball coaching candidates list: Nate Oats? Rick Pitino? Scott Drew?

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One of the best jobs in college basketball is open for the first time in 15 years. The sky is the limit.

John Calipari , and Kentucky needs a new men’s basketball coach. As hastily as the last guy abandoned the post after his , that’s how fast prospective candidates will run toward Lexington. Probably. Advertisement Five different men have won national championships there. jockeys with to be the winningest program of all time. There is no ceiling, because there’s no limit on the winning a coach can do there. The expectations and scrutiny, of course, are not for the insecure or faint of heart.

Bruce Pearl, head coach: We have long heard that Barnhart would not be interested in hiring someone who has served a three-year show-cause penalty, but he’s among the multiple SEC coaches who did more than Calipari with less. He won the SEC regular season in 2018 and 2022 and the league tournament in 2019 and 2024. He’s been to a Final Four more recently than Kentucky. So if a bunch of these other candidates say no, Pearl’s previous missteps might suddenly be less offensive to Barnhart.

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