Tote up all the moving vans criss-crossing Division I hoopdom, and you'll find there have been 40-some coaching changes - and not all the openings have been created by athletic directors with itchy trigger fingers. Tommy Amaker rewarded himself for a messy season at Seton Hall by skipping off to Michigan. Jay Wright parlayed some good work at Hofstra into the Villanova job. Jim Baron fled St. Bonaventure for fellow Atlantic 10 member Rhode Island. Louis Orr got to know everybody at Siena for one season before replacing Amaker at Seton Hall. And so on and so forth.

Local yokels to us. Building blocks to Tulsa hoops. [Paul Pressey, J.D.] sprang from George Wythe High and paced the Golden Hurricane to the 1981 NIT title. Barnett went from coaching VCU to the NCAAs to coaching Tulsa to the NCAAs. Smith - J.D.'s successor and one-time VCU assistant - upped the ante to Sweet 16 residence. Roanoke native and Radford grad [Steve Robinson] took over from Tubby and continued Tulsa's NCAA run.