You don't even have to look outside of the BIG conference to find a worse basketball program! And a HC that took over that program and more than doubled the number of wins in his first season.
Steve Pikiell @ Rutgers!
Rutgers 10 year record before Pikiell got there in 2016-17.
10-19
11-20
11-21
15-17
15-17
14-18
15-16
12-21
10-22
7-25
Pikiell's first season @ Rutgers 15-17.
Iowa basketball 10 years before Fran got here?
23-12
19-16
17-14
16-13
21-12
25-9
17-14
13-19
15-16
10-22
Fran's first year at Iowa? 11-20
Those years under Lick dug us into that category. When Fran took over, we were probably in the bottom 3 as far as what shape we were in. Im not sure why you're arguing semantics on that statement instead of answering the question.