In college basketball, the scene of an African American coach cutting down the nets on their way to a national title is not new, even if it is still a relative rarity.
John Thompson led Georgetown to the championship in 1984, the first of four Black coaches to win it all. Carolyn Peck and her Purdue women did it in 1999 and Dawn Staley of South Carolina joined her in 2017 with the first of her three titles.
