The Tumultuous 12

Published: April 9, 2008

The Big 12 began as a stable conference for basketball coaches.

In the league's first six seasons of existence, there were only seven coaching changes.

But in the six seasons since, there have been 16.

Missouri, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Kansas State and Iowa State lead the way with three changes each.

Texas has yet to make a change with Rick Barnes:

•Larry Eustachy for Tim Floyd (Iowa State)

•Melvin Watkins for Tony Barone (Texas A&M)

•Dave Bliss for Harry Miller (Baylor)

•Quin Snyder for Norm Stewart (Missouri)

•Jim Wooldridge for Tom Asbury (Kansas State)

•Barry Collier for Danny Nee (Nebraska)

•Bob Knight for James Dickey (Texas Tech)

•Scott Drew for Dave Bliss (Baylor)

•Wayne Morgan for Larry Eustachy (Iowa State)

•Bill Self for Roy Williams (Kansas)

•Billy Gillispie for Melvin Watkins (Texas A&M)

•Greg McDermott for Wayne Morgan (Iowa State)

•Melvin Watkins for Quin Snyder (Missouri)

•Mike Anderson for Melvin Watkins (Missouri)

•Doc Sadler for Barry Collier (Nebraska)

•Jeff Capel for Kelvin Sampson (Oklahoma)

•Sean Sutton for Eddie Sutton (Oklahoma State)

•Bob Huggins for Jim Wooldridge (Kansas State)

•Jeff Bzdelik for Ricardo Patton (Colorado)

•Mark Turgeon for Billy Gillispie (Texas A&M)

•Frank Martin for Bob Huggins (Kansas State)

•Pat Knight for Bob Knight (Texas Tech)

•TBD for Sean Sutton (Oklahoma State)

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