re: Who is the worst coach to win a CBK national title?

Based on what I am seeing, Jim Harrick’s probably one of the worst coaches in the modern era (1985 to present) to win one.


Not a bad coach by any means but most of the list is made up of guys who are or will be in the HOF like Knight, K, Crum, Izzo, etc.

I basically narrowed the list down to him, Gary Williams of Maryland, Steve Fisher of Michigan, Nolan Richardson of Arkansas, Tubby Smth, and Harrick. Of those, Harrick seemed to have the least sustained success and a lesser win percentage.


Fisher won one title and reached two more finals with Michigan, albeit ones vacated due to the Fav Five.

Gary Williams has a ton of wins in the ACC, which is typically one of the best if not the best basketball conference.

Nolan Richardson had an insane winning percentage of about .700%, he just trailed off toward the end of his career as Arky continued on in the SEC.

Tubby hasn’t stayed too many places long but he wins everywhere and he has plenty of them.


Harrick’s history of questionable compliance issues called off by the end of his career at Georgia points it at him.

Umm Nolan won a NJCAA NIT and NCAA. He is in no way in this conversation

He also went to 3 Final Fours

Nolan only ends up on the list because the list of title winning coaches is that damn impressive. He got dropped from consideration upon seeing exactly how dominant he was, like with Fisher.

Or his bullshite at Georgia, as he had them looking pretty good at the time the scam class crap got exposed.

Problem is though he repeated it at UGA. Harrick makes Pearl look like a saint.

Pearl is only a notch below Bliss in terms of weasels.

Tubby’ s stats

Career Record (major schools): 28 Years, 613-317, .659 W-L%
Schools: Tulsa (79-43), Georgia (45-19), Kentucky (263-83), Minnesota (124-81), Texas Tech (46-50), Memphis (40-26) and High Point (16-15)
Conference Champion: 9 Times (Reg. Seas.), 5 Times (Tourn.)
NCAA Tournament: 18 Years (30-17), 1 Final Four, 1 Championship
NCAA Champion: 1998
2015-16 Big 12 COY
3x SEC COY

Jim Harrick is the answer.

Career Record (major schools): 23 Years, 470-235, .667 W-L%
Schools: Pepperdine (167-97), UCLA (191-63), Rhode Island (45-22) and Georgia (67-53)
Conference Champion: 9 Times (Reg. Seas.), 1 Time (Tourn.)
NCAA Tournament: 16 Years (18-15), 1 Final Four, 1 Championship
NCAA Champion: 1995
1994-95 Pac-10 COY

Harrick had a higher win % than Tubby, and he never inherited a gold mine like Tubby did at UK.

Not sure why Tubby would be ranked above Harrick.

Harrick’s NCAA tournament record was lame.

Nah he just walked into URI that had Mobley and pulled strings for Odom

He walked into UCLA that had 5 NBA players on it in 88/89