Hiring the right coach during the annual spring college basketball coaching carousel can change a program's fortunes quickly. Last spring, Louisville moved on from Kenny Payne and

Already this postseason, six power conference coaching jobs have opened — one in the Big Ten, two in the SEC and three in the Big 12. For a while, I’ve been chatting with women’s basketball insiders about what this coaching cycle will look like because big changes are coming with revenue sharing and financial units (multi-million dollar payments the NCAA awards to conferences in March Madness tournaments) hitting the sport within months of one another.

Providence head coach Kim English did not hold back when assessing his team's performance this season following a 75-69 loss to Butler in the Big East Tournament