How the men’s Final Four coaches each made it work in college basketball’s new landscape

The easy way to frame the coaching situation at this year’s Final Four is the new guard versus the old guard.

Florida head coach Todd Golden is 39-years-old. Duke head coach Jon Scheyer is 37. Both will be coaching in a national semifinal for the first time in their young careers.

Auburn’s Bruce Pearl is 65-years-old. When Scheyer was born, Pearl was in his second year as an assistant coach at Iowa, that stint coming after a four-year run as an assistant at Stanford. This is the 14th Division-I NCAA Tournament that he’s coached in, and the second time that he’s made the Final Four.

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