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Knight had 45, with three of those coming at Texas Tech in a career that ended with 902 wins overall.Knight was 42-21 (.667) in the NCAA tournament during his IU tenure (1971-2000), whereas Izzo’s 46-17 mark gives him a .730 success rate. He has the 2007 and 2012 Final Fours to his name.If the 48-year-old Matta can keep going and keep succeeding, it will come down to finding a way to win six straight games in the NCAA tournament at some point.

Aug. 11, 2020, 10:21 a.m. Izzo stands at 239. Knight also leads the way with 353 Big Ten wins.Wisconsin’s Walter Meanwell (1912-17, 1921-34) had eight Big Ten regular-season titles, and Izzo has seven, tying him with former Ohio State coach Fred Taylor (1958-76).Keady had six at Purdue, and Keady is still second in Big Ten wins with 265. Big Ten basketball programs and current men’s head coaches. Knight told Izzo his team could win it all. So that aspect is much more difficult now for Tom, and he has navigated it beautifully.”When it comes to Big Ten championships, Knight and former Purdue coach Ward “Piggy” Lambert (1917, 1919-46) are tied at the top with 11. Like the men's teams, the women's basketball teams in the Big Ten participate in the Big Ten–ACC Women's Challenge, which was founded in 2007. That list includes Taylor in 1960 and Heathcote in 1979 with a team led by Earvin (Magic) Johnson.Steve Fisher won it all at Michigan in 1989, and Harold E. (Bud) Foster did it at Wisconsin in 1941. Mike Krzyzewski has the most total victories (men's or women's) with 1,157.

1 spot, though that idea seemed distant to him moments after MSU’s 76-45 win at Northwestern on Thursday.“That’s a hell of a thing to even be put in,” Izzo said of a comparison with Knight, who along with Keady mentored Izzo going back to when Izzo was an MSU assistant under Jud Heathcote.“Those two guys, other than Jud, were two of my favorite guys,” Izzo said of Knight and Keady.

I’m still driving myself.”The next three winningest coaches after Izzo at Big Ten schools all finished their careers without a national championship: Lou Henson (423 wins at Illinois), Lambert (371 at Purdue) and Bo Ryan, who retired earlier this season after winning 364 games at Wisconsin.Former Indiana coach Branch McCracken also won 364 games (1939-43, 1947-65), and he won national titles in 1940 and 1953. And that’s it (though Maryland’s Gary Williams won it all in 2002, 12 years before the Terps joined the league).Izzo also is tied for first in all-time Big Ten tournament championships with four. Published 7:10 p.m. “But it won’t be while I’m coaching.

Only Dean Smith (23 in 1975-97), Roy Williams (20 in 1990-2009) and Mike Krzyzewski (20, ongoing) have longer tourney streaks in NCAA history than Izzo’s.It was harder to get an NCAA bid, of course, before the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Only one has ever passed the millennium mark — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, who has 1,132 wins in 44 seasons. In the history of Division I men’s college basketball, just 120 coaches have …

The knock on Keady is postseason performance: He never reached a Final Four.“At some point I will think about that stuff.

Now, if you have a good recruiting year, you can have one great team and you might be decimated for the next three.

Big Ten Conference Leaders and Records Known As: Big Ten Conference, Western Conference Record: 124 Years, 6819-5242-394, .563 W-L% Adjusted W-L Record: 6807-5241-394 Bowls: 307 Bowls, 143-163-1, .467 W-L% Ranked in AP Poll: 260 (Preseason), 272 (Final), 4017 (Total) More league info Those seven were joined by Indiana and Iowa in 1899, then by Ohio State in 1912.

But there are different issues with today’s game that Knight didn’t experience.“The challenges of roster management now are totally different,” DeCourcy said of players leaving school early and often for the NBA.

Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutA link has been sent to your friend's email address.Branch and Bo and Jud and Fred and Gene and Lou and Piggy all deserve a nod and some parting gifts, and Thad may work his way into the discussion some day. “They both took me under their wing, so that’s an honor, but it’s something I swear I’ve never thought about.”What if Bob Knight never coached Indiana?

Some of the Big Ten Conference's member schools have sired some of the most iconic coaches in the history of college basketball. “If you had a good recruiting year in the ’80s, you didn’t have to succeed (again) for two more years. MSU won 11 straight games from there to do just that.Izzo, who turned 61 on Saturday, is one more such run from moving past Knight in a way he couldn’t have imagined back then. “Not only did he win all the league championships he did, but he won three national championships. Big Ten Conference Coaches Known as: Big Ten Conference, Western Conference. That’s an average of 25.7 wins, every year, for more than four decades.And only three other active coaches at the Division I level have picked up 800 wins in their careers:Here is the full list of the 120 Division I men's basketball coaches over 500 wins before the start of the 2019-20 season. Initially formed in 1896, the conference was officially incorporated in 1905 as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association, initially featuring Illinois, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan and Chicago. When it comes to Big Ten championships, Knight and former Purdue coach Ward “Piggy” Lambert (1917, 1919-46) are tied at the top with 11.

But the award for achievement in Big Ten men’s basketball coaching, for so long in clear possession of former Indiana coach Bob Knight, increasingly warrants a debate about Knight and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo.That gained attention this week when Izzo scored his 513th victory, pushing him past former Purdue coach Gene Keady for the second-most wins at a Big Ten school.

But those three national championships are hard to look past, even though in terms of dexterity and adjusting to the climate — and general fan-friendliness — Tom would win all those categories. 12 Spartans  beat Rutgers 96-62 Sunday, can achieve the goal that has kept him at MSU long enough to be in that discussion — winning a second national championship — he’ll have a case.

Big Ten women's basketball led conference attendance from 1993 to 1999. Aug. 11, 2020, 7:47 p.m.