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posted 08-11-2021 09:12 PM
1. John Calipari Kentucky
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 784 wins
Calipari enters the 2021-22 campaign ranked 12th all-time in career wins with 784, which means he's just 16 away from 800. If Kentucky has a strong season after last season's 9-16 record, Calipari could reach the mark this season, potentially in the heart of SEC play.
2. Rick Pitino, Iona
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 782 wins
Pitino is coaching his sixth Division I program as he enters his second season at Iona. The Gaels went 12-6 last season and made the NCAA tournament after winning the MAAC tournament. They fell to No. 2 seed Alabama by 13 in the first round.
A strong 2022 campaign for Iona, however, could set up Pitino to reach 800 wins in the spring.
3 Bill Self, Kansas
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 729 wins
Self is 71 wins shy of 800, and that's a total that he could reach early in the 2023-24 season. Kansas won 100 games from the 2009-10 season through the 2011-12 season, 97 games from the 2006-07 season through the 2008-09 season, and 95 games from the 2015-16 campaign to 2017-18, so at Kansas' best, it's a program that can consistently win 30-plus games.
In 18 seasons in Lawrence, Kansas, Self's Jayhawks teams have averaged 29 wins per season, and Kansas has won at least 30 games in half of those seasons, so he's roughly two and a third seasons away from the milestone.
4. Rick Barnes, Tennessee
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 727 wins
Did you know that in Rick Barnes's 34-year head coaching career, his highest two-year win total came in 2018 and 2019? His Volunteers won 57 games in those two seasons — 26 in '18, then 31 in 2019 — and even though Tennessee took a step back in 2020 with a 17-14 record, the Vols won more games (18) in 2021, despite the abbreviated season.
5. Dana Altman, Oregon
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 690 wins
Dana Altman needs 110 wins to reach 800 career victories, and with a career average of roughly 21.5 wins per season as a DI head coach, Altman is roughly fvie seasons away from reaching 800 wins, if Oregon maintains Altman's career average. It's fair to expect that he could reach the milestone even sooner than that, however.
The Ducks have reached or eclipsed 21 wins in each of the last 11 seasons under Altman, including a combined 64 wins in the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
6.Tom Izzo
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 643 wins
If Izzo reaches 800 career wins, he would go in a special class of the elite as one of the few coaches to win that many games at the same school, joining the likes of Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, North Carolina's Dean Smith and Kentucky's Adolph Rupp. There could actually be an interesting race between Izzo, Gonzaga's Mark Few and Villanova's Jay Wright.
Few is 13 wins behind Izzo and he's coming off of a 2021 season in which Gonzaga went 31-1. Wright is 18 wins behind Few and his Wildcats have won two of the last five national championships.
7. Mark Few
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 630 wins
At Gonzaga, Few's teams have averaged a ridiculous 28.6 wins per season, which would put him roughly six seasons away from 800 career wins if the 'Zags maintain that pace, or even improve upon it. However, it would likely take less time than that. Since the start of the 2012-13 season, Gonzaga has won at least 28 games in every season, including seven seasons with at least 31 wins.
You can typically pencil in Gonzaga to have single-digit losses (as they've had in 20 of Few's 22 seasons as head coach) and you could count the number of losses the Bulldogs have had in any one of the last five seasons on one hand.
If Gonzaga wins, say, 32 games per year on average, as the Bulldogs have averaged the last nine seasons, Few could reach 800 wins around December of the 2026-27 season. Few's Gonzaga program has reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll in four of the last fvie seasons, so he and his players have elevated the 'Zags to among the nation's elite and they're the class of the West Coast Conference, allowing Few and Gonzaga to rack up wins at an incredible rate.
8. Jay Wright Villanova
Current win total (entering 2021-22 season): 612 wins
Villanova's stretch from 2015 through 2018 was about as impressive of a run as we've seen in the modern era of college basketball. The Wildcats won two national championships, averaged 34 wins per season and finished in the top six of the AP poll in each season, including three top-two finishes.
That's a hard pace to maintain, but when Wright's Wildcats are rolling, there are few, if any, programs this side of Gonzaga that can match their winning percentage.
Prior to the abbreviated 2021 season, when the Wildcats also dealt with a season-ending injury to co-Big East Player of the Year Collin Gillespie, Villanova has averaged 24.8 wins per season under Wright. But the program has reached an even higher level since the mid-2010s, when the Wildcats have won 24 or more games every season from 2014 to 2020 and averaged nearly 31 wins per year, despite the 2020 Big East tournament and 2020 NCAA tournament getting canceled.
If Villanova continues winning roughly 30 games per season, Wright could reach 800 career wins early in the 2027-28 season.
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