We have this season’s biggest improvements and the biggest regressions in NET. We grade the winners and losers accordingly.
The Biggest Improvements
NET
A
This
Last
Diff
Northwestern St.
Corey Gipson
205
330
+125
Milwaukee
Bart Lundy
210
333
+123
Missouri
Dennis Gates
49
151
+102
Sacramento St.
David Patrick
224
311
+87
Georgia
Mike White
153
223
+70
Maryland
Kevin Willard
26
90
+64
Kansas St.
Jerome Tang
17
69
+52
The Biggest Regression
F’s and D’s
Last
This
Diff
Saint Peter’s
Bashir Mason
105
301
-196
Louisville
Kenny Payne
130
316
-186
Murray St.
Steve Prohm
29
213
-184
SMU
Rob Lanier
53
209
-156
Tulsa
Eric Konkol
180
322
-142
South Carolina
Lamont Paris
93
233
-140
Georgia St.
Jonas Hayes
158
292
-134
LSU
Matt McMahon
20
151
-131
Rhode Island
Archie Miller
142
263
-121
Chattanooga
Dan Earl
63
179
-116
Davidson
Matt McKilliop
46
145
-99
I can’t really blame some of these programs for taking a large step back like LSU, Chattanooga, Saint Peter’s, and Murray State who lost most of their best players. When you are successful and a coaching change happens, it’s usually starting over in those situations. That said this isn’t 1992 either now that there are 1800 transfers in the portal. If I were a fan of some of these schools I wouldn’t be feeling so great about the next few years.
Schools like Louisville and South Carolina are just as bad as you will ever see from programs supported at the level they are financially. There is really no excuse for programs like that to ever play at the level they did this season. Rhode Island and SMU paying what they invested to get Archie Miller and Rob Lanier has to raise a red flag after this start as well.
Here are the NET rankings for each 1st-year coach this season
