Late March is a complicated time for college basketball coaches. Some are still very much grinding tape, preparing their teams for their next tournament games. For UConn’s Dan Hurley, Illinois’s Brad Underwood, Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd and Michigan’s Dusty May, all attention is on the Final Four games that lie ahead this weekend, as just two victories separate them from college hoops immortality.
For the other 360-plus coaches in Division I, everything is in flux this time of year. Many of them have entertained and taken new jobs over the last few weeks, and are trying to get their houses in order ahead of the opening of the transfer portal, which opens on Tuesday, April 7—one day after the national championship game.
