National Champion Coaches

[NovaBall]

Is Kevin Ollie the only coach in the past 30 years to win a national championship without ever having been to the elite 8 before?

Before him it was Steve fisher as the interim coach at Michigan (in a game that was stolen from seton hall)?

[stever20]

Is Kevin Ollie the only coach in the past 30 years to win a national championship without ever having been to the elite 8 before?

Before him it was Steve fisher as the interim coach at Michigan (in a game that was stolen from seton hall)?

No. Tubby Smith. HE had gone sweet 16 at Georgia, and won title 1st year at Kentucky...

[NovaBall]

So 2 of them since the 1980's?
And Tubby took over a program that won it two years prior and had lost in the finals in OT the immediate year prior?

[stever20]

So 2 of them since the 1980's?
And Tubby took over a program that won it two years prior and had lost in the finals in OT the immediate year prior?

so did Ollie when you think about it.

[NovaBall]

Goes to show that the true high ends exams aren't built over night as flash in the pan seasons. Need some longer stability.