Familiar Surroundings: Graduates Guiding Alma Mater in 2025 NCAA Tourney
March 17th, 2025 - 12:21
When Thomas Wolfe penned, "you can never come home again," he didn't have some successful college basketball coaches in mind. Playoff participation must be extra gratifying for the following seven individuals guiding their alma mater in college basketball's grandest prize - a berth in the NCAA Tournament (four of them from power-conference members):
2025 NCAA Playoff Coach Alma Mater First Season as School's Head Coach Chris Crutchfield Omaha '92 2022-23 (after Tyler TX Junior College and East Central OK) Hubert Davis North Carolina '92 2021-22 Travis DeCuire Montana '94 2014-15 (after Green River Community College) Rob Krimmel Saint Francis PA '00 2012-13 Matt Painter Purdue '93 2005-06 (after Southern Illinois) Mark Pope Kentucky '96 2024-25 (after Utah Valley and Brigham Young) Jon Scheyer Duke '10 2022-23