Bruce Pearl can become the face of college basketball, for better or worse, at Final Four

In the last four years, college basketball has seen six national championship-winning head coaches announce their retirement from the sport.

The number of active head coaches with at least one national championship on their resume? Six.

The slew of recent retirements has left college basketball — a sport where the head coaches are typically the defining stars — without a defined set of names to lead the game into the first stage of its next era.

Bill Self is still trucking along at Kansas. Same for Tom Izzo at Michigan State. Rick Pitino is doing Rick Pitino things at St. John’s. Dan Hurley has evolved to

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