--- title: These NCAA Basketball Coaches Made The Most Money Per Win This Season description: These basketball coaches cost their NCAA March Madness-bound teams the most money per victory this season. authors: - name: Kerry Close url: https://money.com/author/kerry-close/ at_money_since: 2016 articles: 182 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/kerryclose former_staff: true published: '2016-03-17T21:38:02.000Z' modified: '2016-03-17T21:38:02.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Basketball - coach - College Basketball - March Madness - NCAA - pubdesk word_count: 253 canonical: https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils directs his team during their game against the North Carolina State Wolfpack at Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 6, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. Duke won 88-80.](https://img.money.com/2016/03/160317_em_coach.jpg?crop=0px%2C55px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85) March Madness is rife with surprises, but one statistic from the basketball tournament might especially shock you: the tidy sum that the nation's top college coaches took home this season for each win. A [Marketwatch analysis](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/john-calipari-is-paid-29444-per-win-while-this-coach-makes-just-500-2016-03-17?link=sfmw_sm) of coaches' salaries and the number of wins they've accumulated this season found that Mike Kryzyzweski, who coaches 4th-seeded Duke, is the most expensive manager of all the teams that qualified for this year's NCAA tournament. Each win under Coach K cost the school more than $260,000. His victory premium was followed by that Kentucky's coach, John Calipari, who cost the school about $244,000 for every W, and Kansas's Bill Self, who ran the tournament favorite more than $165,000 for the team's 30 wins this season. The best value in college basketball is Nick McDevitt. With 22 wins and a salary of about $114,000, McDevitt's cost the 15-seeded state school just $5,182 a game. Here are the NCAA basketball coaches who take home the most money for each game they won during the regular season: | School (Seed) | Head Coach | Salary | Pay Per Win | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Duke (1) | Mike Kryzyzweski | $6.04 million | $262,608 | | Kentucky (4) | John Calipari | $6.36 million | $244,615 | | Kansas (1) | Bill Self | $4.96 million | $165,333 | | Pittsburgh (10) | Jamie Dixon | $3.2 million | $160,000 | | Michigan (11) | John Beilein | $3.37 million | $153,182 | | Texas (6) | Shaka Smart | $2.8 million | $140,000 | | Arizona (6) | Sean Miller | $3.48 million | $139,200 | | Michigan State University (2) | Tom Izzo | $4.01 million | $137,931 | | West Virginia University (3) | Bob Huggins | $3.27 million | $136,250 | | Indiana (5) | Tom Crean | $3.05 million | $122,000 | ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Sports", "item": "https://money.com/sports/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "These NCAA Basketball Coaches Made The Most Money Per Win This Season" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/", "name": "These NCAA Basketball Coaches Made The Most Money Per Win This Season", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-03-17T21:38:02.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2016-03-17T21:38:02.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "These NCAA Basketball Coaches Made The Most Money Per Win This Season", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/03/160317_em_coach.jpg?crop=0px%2C55px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "160317_EM_Coach" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kerry Close", "url": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/kerryclose" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-03-17T21:38:02.000Z", "description": "These basketball coaches cost their NCAA March Madness-bound teams the most money per victory this season.", "abstract": "These basketball coaches cost their NCAA March Madness-bound teams the most money per victory this season.", "@id": "https://money.com/ncaa-basketball-coaches-salary-win/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2016-03-17T21:38:02.000Z", "wordCount": 253, "keywords": [ "Basketball", "coach", "College Basketball", "March Madness", "NCAA", "pubdesk" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sport", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport" ] } ] } ] } ```