These NCAA Basketball Coaches Made The Most Money Per Win This Season
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 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 |