Indiana basketball coaching search profile: Will Wade – in the hall

Mike Woodson will resign as a IU basketball coach after the 2024-25 season. Sports director Scott Dolson is currently looking for the 31st head coach of the program.

In the hall, many of the candidates who will be discussed for the job in the coming days and weeks are examined. Our 11th profile take a look at Mcneese State Coach wants Wade.

Previously: Dusty May, Scott Drew, Mick Cronin, Greg McDermott, Buzz Williams, TJ Otzelberger, Ben McCollum, Tommy Lloyd, Brad Brownell, Chris Beard

Mcneese State’s Will Wade is possibly the largest wild card of potential head coaching candidates in this cycle.

From a purely winning perspective, Wade managed to stop all four stops during his young career. The 42-year-old offers an overall record of 241 to 104 between his time in Chattanooga, VCU, LSU and McNeese.

It appeared in 10 NCAA tournaments in 10 coaching games. Wade was probably on the way to a top-class job before it was recruited in March 2022 in front of the NCAA tournament. He was temporarily suspended in 2019 after reports on him appeared in which he illegally dealt with recruits.

Additional allegations come from 2017, Wades first season in Baton Rouge. In August 2020, ESPN reported that Wade was involved in “inadmissible payments” in over 11 recruits, including their family members and closer people. Wade remained in the LSU when an investigation continued, but the school quickly took measures after he received an announcement on allegations on March 8, 2022.

In addition to the recruitment injuries, Wade was accused of not working together with the examination of the NCAA. He was released four days later, less than a week before the tigers went against the state in the first round of the NCAA tournament against the state Iowa.

Wade accepted the McNeese job exactly one year after its release, but the NCAA punished it several times before its first season. In addition to a 10-game lock, Wade received a two-year show criminal penalty that limited visits to recruitment and the associated activities.

Nevertheless, Wade led the cowboys to their first NCAA tournament for 22 years last season. McNEese went 22-2 and won both the regular seasonal and the tournament title of the Southland Conference. Wade was appointed coach of the Southland Conference of the Year.

The Wade from Nashville, Tennessee, was a student at Clemson. He was then two seasons as an assistant and director of basketball operations before taking a job with Harvard in a recruitment role.

After two years, Wade moved to the VCU in 2009 to act as an assistant under Shaka Smart. During the four years of Wades, the Rams organized the NCAA tournament three consecutive seasons, including a final four appearance in 2011.

In 2013 Wade accepted his first head coach job at Chattanooga. He finished second in the Southern Conference and was appointed Socon coach of 2014. Wade quickly got through the rows and returned to VCU in 2015, left to Texas as head coach Smart.

The Rams ended in the first season of Atlantic 10 the first in Atlantic 10 and climbed into the second round of the NCAA tournament. The following season they took second place in the conference and were an exit in the first round in March. After Wade-Damals only 34 years old, a record of 51-20 and 28-8 in the conference game in two years in two years, he became an attractive candidate with a high major.

He was appointed 22nd head coach of the LSU in 2017 and the Tigers won the title of the regular season of the SEC in his second season. The LSU rose for the first time since 2006 as No. 3 seeds to the Sweet Sixteen and finally fell into the state of Michigan.

The Tigers took second place in the conference the following year, although the post-season were canceled due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Wade led the LSU to tournament appearances in both 2020-21 and 2021-22, but did not pass the 32nd round.

Now Wade is probably on the way to return to an important role. Mcneese, 25-6 and 19-1 on the Southland Conference, has locked up a second regular seaside title in a row and appears for another appearance with NCAA tournaments. The cowboys check in 59th place in Kenpom and rated the 62nd place in the adapted offensive efficiency and the 67th in the adapted defensive efficiency.

It is unlikely that Indiana will be very interested in Wade and he may need another year at McNeese before programs feel comfortable when he overlooks his violations at the LSU. The IU may be particularly willful in relation to the past of Wades, since Kelvin Sampson resigned in 2008 and was discontinued due to violations of a number of inadmissible telephone calls.

Wades Show Cause runs until June 21, 2025, and although he is able to turn over programs and train at a high level, Indiana will probably choose a safer candidate.

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