Big East WCBB Coaches Win%

[DefenseBB]

For continuity, I have expanded my P5 Coaches Salary and Win% to now include the Big East. As the BE is mostly private schools, I have not been able to gather all the salary information (yet!) so I will focus this thread on the Win% and success factors of our rivals.

The Big East WCBB Conference is #6 in Powerranking and esteem. There are now 11 teams in this conference.
From a coaching experience perspective, the 11 coaches average 16.4 years, 3rd among the P5, led of course by Geno and his 35 and Doug Bruno and his 34 years. From a win percentage, the group average 0.657, which is 5th, just behind the PAC12 at .658 but well ahead of the SEC (0.635). The average Wins by each coach is 315.6 and that is 4th, ahead of the ACC and SEC.

Upon first look:

• On the surface, we have Geno and Doug as the top 2,
• Jim Flanery at Creighton has had a nice career and is solid 3rd.
• New comer Meg Duffy did a great job this past year at Marquette in her first year and seems strong for next year as well and may well vie for #2 annually.
• Joe Tartamella at St John's has a 0.618 win% all at this school and shown he can be considered a solid foe.
• After this there is a mixed bag without consistent results
• Anthony Bozzella at Seton Hall and Jim Crowley at Providence, neither have a great win percentage (0.517 and 0.521) and seem to have good years followed by bad years with Crowley trending down.
• 3rd year coach James Howard at Georgetown has not made any ground and was 5-25 last year.
• Melanie Moore just completed her 1st year ever coaching at Xavier and was 3-27.
• Denise Dillon replaced Harry at Villanova. Dillon has 17 years experience at Drexel and has some talent at Villanova with which to work. Many on this board view her as a solid selection.

From an RPI perspective, TBE was 6th, just ahead of the Ivy's. There were 3 teams with RPI's north of 188. However, digging into this, Xavier (and their new coach) played the 29th OOC and #41 schedule overall so their RPI was more function driven by playing strong teams resulting in 3-27. By comparison, PC played an atrocious OOC (#252) and their overall SoS was #136. So their 13 wins were puffed up by playing poor competition as evidenced by their 3-15 conf record. To me, this coach may have be sent packing. Georgetown was slightly better with a #130 OOC and #86 overall but again they were an abysmal 5-25 for a coach in his 3rd year.

All that said, this group needs to get better at recruiting and beefing up their OOC. With a 20 game schedule starting for league play, they need to minimize the cream puffs.
Here's the coaching table (updated for Butler and Crowley D3 record).

Name

Win

Loss

Pct

School

Tit

FF

E-8

S-16

Conf-Tit

Start

Years

Expire

Kurt Godlevske

87​

100​

0.465​

Butler

-

-

-

-

-

2014-15

6

2024​

Jim Flanery

312​

204​

0.605​

Creighton

-

-

-

-

4​

2002–03

18

Doug Bruno

717​

347​

0.674​

DePaul

-

-

-

3​

19​

1988–89[a]

34

2024​

James Howard

40​

57​

0.412​

Georgetown

-

-

-

-

-

2017–18

3

2022​

Megan Duffy

68​

28​

0.708​

Marquette

-

-

-

-

-

2019–20

3

2025​

Jim Crowley

375​

350​

0.517​

Providence

-

-

-

1

1​

2016–17

20

2023​

Anthony Bozzella

439​

410​

0.517​

Seton Hall

-

-

-

-

2​

2013–14

27

Joe Tartamella

162​

100​

0.618​

St. John's

-

-

-

-

1​

2012–13

8

2024​

Geno Auriemma

1091​

142​

0.885​

UConn Huskies

11​

9​

5​

2​

81​

1985–86

35

2022​

Denise Dillon

329​

211​

0.609​

Villanova

-

-

-

-

4​

2020–21

17

2025​

Melanie Moore

3​

27​

0.100​

Xavier

-

-

-

-

-

2019–20

1

2025​

 

[DefenseBB]

Here are the comparison stats of the conferences:

Tms	Conf	Wins	Losses	Win%	AvWper	AvSal	HiSal	LoSal
11​	TBE	3,472​	1,812​	0.657​	315.6​	N/A	N/A	N/A
15​	ACC	4,339​	2,155​	0.668​	289.3​	$715	$1,475​	$375​
10​	Big 12	4,398​	2,185​	0.668​	439.8​	$961	$2,000​	$325​
14​	Big Ten	6,310​	3,045​	0.675​	450.7​	$748	$1,170​	$521​
12​	Pac-12	4,112​	2,139​	0.658​	342.7​	$487	$800​	$295​
14​	SEC	3,825​	2,203​	0.635​	273.2​	$804	$2,100​	$452​
65​	All	22,984​	11,727​	0.662​	353.6​	$737​	$2,100​	$295​
Tms	Conf	Titles	FF	E-8	S-16	Conf.Tit	Tot.Wins	Experience
11​	TBE	11​	9​	5​	5​	112​	5,284​	16.6
15​	ACC	0​	4​	7​	6​	45​	6,494​	13.5
10​	Big 12	4​	8​	9​	19​	67​	6,583​	20.6
14​	Big Ten	6​	11​	5​	20​	111​	9,355​	20.9
12​	Pac-12	3​	15​	17​	19​	100​	6,251​	16.3
14​	SEC	2​	4​	7​	19​	57​	6,028​	13.5
76​	All	15​	42​	45​	83​	380​	34,711​	16.7

 

[Rixxx]

DefenseBB, you rock!

 

[DefenseBB]

I did just realize that I forgot Butler...doh...I will be editing shortly. Not sure how that happened because I knew "he did it".

 

[Kaizen]

Here are the comparison stats of the conferences:

Tms	Conf	Wins	Losses	Win%	AvWper	AvSal	HiSal	LoSal
11​	TBE	3,472​	1,812​	0.657​	315.6​	N/A	N/A	N/A
15​	ACC	4,339​	2,155​	0.668​	289.3​	$715	$1,475​	$375​
10​	Big 12	4,398​	2,185​	0.668​	439.8​	$961	$2,000​	$325​
14​	Big Ten	6,310​	3,045​	0.675​	450.7​	$748	$1,170​	$521​
12​	Pac-12	4,112​	2,139​	0.658​	342.7​	$487	$800​	$295​
14​	SEC	3,825​	2,203​	0.635​	273.2​	$804	$2,100​	$452​
65​	All	22,984​	11,727​	0.662​	353.6​	$737​	$2,100​	$295​
Tms	Conf	Titles	FF	E-8	S-16	Conf.Tit	Tot.Wins	Experience
11​	TBE	11​	9​	5​	5​	112​	5,284​	16.6
15​	ACC	0​	4​	7​	6​	45​	6,494​	13.5
10​	Big 12	4​	8​	9​	19​	67​	6,583​	20.6
14​	Big Ten	6​	11​	5​	20​	111​	9,355​	20.9
12​	Pac-12	3​	15​	17​	19​	100​	6,251​	16.3
14​	SEC	2​	4​	7​	19​	57​	6,028​	13.5
76​	All	15​	42​	45​	83​	380​	34,711​	16.7

Wow Pac-12s are way under paid

 

[CL82]

One quibble. I don't think you can fairly clump Doug and Geno since their win percentages are significantly different. Doug is the best of the Old New Big East (ONBE) but Geno is a cut above.

FWIW I think we can expect all of the ONBE coaches' win percentage to begin to decrease. Games against the Huskies will do that to you.

 

[DefenseBB]

One quibble. I don't think you can fairly clump Doug and Geno since their win percentages are significantly different. Doug is the best of the Old New Big East (ONBE) but Geno is a cut above.

FWIW I think we can expect all of the ONBE coaches' win percentage to begin to decrease. Games against the Huskies will do that to you.

Fair point as I certainly do not want to intimate Doug and Geno are interchangeable at 1/2 but more Geno IS #1 and Doug is #2. Meg Duffy has had a great 3 years to Start her Head coaching career but clearly is not ahead of Doug or Jim Flanery yet.