Chris Collins
Northwestern coach | Age: 44
Coach K ties: Duke guard (1992-96), Duke assistant (2000-13)
Career record: 101-96
NCAA tournament record: 1-1
Career highlights: The son of longtime NBA coach Doug Collins played on a Final Four team at Duke and spent nearly all of his post-playing career nestled in the Duke coaching tree, whether as an assistant at Seton Hall under Tommy Amaker or a decade-plus back in Durham. He elevated Northwestern from irrelevant to competitive, but the Wildcats have backslid the past two years.
Biggest pro: He got Northwestern to the NCAA tournament in 2017, something the Wildcats had never accomplished before. If you can win in Evanston, Ill., you can win in a lot of places.
Biggest con: Six years into his head-coaching career, Collins has only one postseason trip of any kind. Plus, the past two seasons have done nothing to improve his résumé (though an ill-fated season playing off campus in Rosemont in 2017-18 didn’t help).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.507ee1b33d78
Speaking of Amaker, was never quite impressed as others w/ what he had been able to accomplish at Harvard.
Amaker took Harvard to 4 straight NCAAs, but that was when he was given an edge in recruiting (Harvard basically offering something akin to schlolarships to student from families under a certain income threshold).
Once other Ivies started offering similar tuition aid, Harvard has missed out on the NCAAs the past 4 seasons.
Northwestern coach | Age: 44
Coach K ties: Duke guard (1992-96), Duke assistant (2000-13)
Career record: 101-96
NCAA tournament record: 1-1
Career highlights: The son of longtime NBA coach Doug Collins played on a Final Four team at Duke and spent nearly all of his post-playing career nestled in the Duke coaching tree, whether as an assistant at Seton Hall under Tommy Amaker or a decade-plus back in Durham. He elevated Northwestern from irrelevant to competitive, but the Wildcats have backslid the past two years.
Biggest pro: He got Northwestern to the NCAA tournament in 2017, something the Wildcats had never accomplished before. If you can win in Evanston, Ill., you can win in a lot of places.
Biggest con: Six years into his head-coaching career, Collins has only one postseason trip of any kind. Plus, the past two seasons have done nothing to improve his résumé (though an ill-fated season playing off campus in Rosemont in 2017-18 didn’t help).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.507ee1b33d78
Speaking of Amaker, was never quite impressed as others w/ what he had been able to accomplish at Harvard.
Amaker took Harvard to 4 straight NCAAs, but that was when he was given an edge in recruiting (Harvard basically offering something akin to schlolarships to student from families under a certain income threshold).
Once other Ivies started offering similar tuition aid, Harvard has missed out on the NCAAs the past 4 seasons.
