Team | Former coach | Interim coach | New coach | Reason |
Appalachian State | Jason Capel | | Jim Fox | Capel's expiring four-year contract was not renewed after he went 53–70 in his time at Appalachian State. Appalachian State hired Davidson assistant Fox. |
Auburn | Tony Barbee | | Bruce Pearl | Barbee was fired after going 48–75 overall and 18–50 in the SEC in four seasons. Auburn replaced him with ESPN analyst Pearl, who enjoyed major success as a head coach at Milwaukee and Tennessee before being fired in 2011 for lying to the NCAA about the recruitment of future Ohio State star Aaron Craft. When he was hired, Pearl was under a show-cause penalty that expired in August 2014. |
Boston College | Steve Donahue | | Jim Christian | Donahue was fired after posting an 8–24 record, his third straight losing season at BC. |
Bowling Green | Louis Orr | | Chris Jans | Orr was fired after posting 13–19 and 12–20 records in the last two seasons, finishing with a 101–121 record after seven seasons. Wichita State assistant Jans was hired as his replacement. |
California | Mike Montgomery | | Cuonzo Martin | Montgomery announced his retirement after six seasons at Cal. In 32 seasons as a collegiate head coach, Montgomery captured 677 career victories and exits the game as the 25th-winningest head men's basketball coach with at least 10 years of experience at the Division I level in NCAA history |
Central Arkansas | Corliss Williamson | Clarence Finley | Russ Pennell | |
College of Charleston | Doug Wojcik | | Earl Grant | Wojcik was fired on August 5, 2014 after allegations of verbal abuse towards players surfaced |
Coppin State | Fang Mitchell | | Michael Grant | |
Delaware State | Greg Jackson | | Keith Walker | |
Florida A&M | Clemon Johnson | | Byron Samuels | |
Florida Atlantic | Mike Jarvis | | Michael Curry | Jarvis and Florida Atlantic mutually agreed to part ways after five of the past six seasons resulted in losing records, including a 10–19 overall mark in 2013–14 |
Grambling State | Joseph Price | | Shawn Walker | |
Hawaii | Gib Arnold | Benjy Taylor | | Arnold was fired mere weeks before the 2014–15 season following an NCAA investigation that also saw the dismissal of assistant Brandyn Akana. |
Houston | James Dickey | | Kelvin Sampson | Dickey resigned after four seasons and a 64–62 overall record, citing family reasons. The Cougars hired Houston Rockets assistant Sampson, who returns to the college ranks after serving a five-year show-cause penalty for making impermissible cell phone calls to recruits during his previous two college jobs at Oklahoma and Indiana. |
IPFW | Tony Jasick | | Jon Coffman | |
IUPUI | Todd Howard | | Jason Gardner | Howard was fired after back-to-back seasons of 6–26 records and having gone 2–28 in conference games during that span. |
Jacksonville | Cliff Warren | | Tony Jasick | |
Lamar | Pat Knight | | Tic Price | Knight was fired during his third season after posting a 29–62 record. |
Loyola Marymount | Max Good | | Mike Dunlap | Good was fired after five seasons, ending with injury-riddled 11–23 and 13–19 seasons. LMU hired Mike Dunlap, a former Charlotte Bobcats head coach and former assistant with several college teams. |
Maine | Ted Woodward | | Bob Walsh | |
Marist | Jeff Bower | | Mike Maker | Bower left to become general manager of the Detroit Pistons. Marist went to the Division III ranks to hire Maker, fresh off leading Williams to that division's championship game. |
Marquette | Buzz Williams | | Steve Wojciechowski | Williams left Marquette to take the Virginia Tech job. The Golden Eagles hired Duke assistant Wojciechowski. |
Marshall | Tom Herrion | | Dan D'Antoni | Herrion, who had coached at Marshall for four seasons, was bought out of the final two years of his contract. Marshall, which finished the season at 11–22, lost its top seven scorers from last season, notably DeAndre Kane, who transferred to Iowa State and became an All-Big 12 first-team selection. Marshall hired former NBA assistant D'Antoni, older brother of former Marshall great and then-current Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni. |
Maryland Eastern Shore | Frankie Allen | | Bobby Collins | |
Missouri | Frank Haith | | Kim Anderson | Haith left Missouri for the Tulsa job. |
Montana | Wayne Tinkle | | Travis DeCuire | Tinkle left for the Oregon State job. Montana hired former Cal assistant DeCuire, a former Montana player who had been publicly endorsed by retiring Cal head coach Mike Montgomery as his successor before Cuonzo Martin was hired from Tennessee. |
Montana State | Brad Huse | | Brian Fish | |
North Dakota State | Saul Phillips | | David Richman | Phillips left to take the Ohio job. |
Ohio | Jim Christian | | Saul Phillips | Christian left to take the Boston College job. |
Oregon State | Craig Robinson | | Wayne Tinkle | Robinson, best known outside basketball as the older brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, was fired after six seasons in which the Beavers never made either the NCAA tournament or the NIT. |
Rice | Ben Braun | | Mike Rhoades | Braun resigned after six seasons and an overall 63–128 record at Rice. The program was plagued by player transfers in his last few seasons, most notably that of Arsalan Kazemi to Oregon after the 2011–12 season. Rice hired VCU assistant Mike Rhoades. |
Samford | Bennie Seltzer | | Scott Padgett | Seltzer was fired after two seasons, finishing with a 24–31 overall record. Even more significantly, Seltzer had 14 players transfer out of the program during his tenure, including five of the team's six top scorers in the just-completed season. Two days after reports of the firing, top assistant Padgett was promoted. |
South Dakota | Joey James | | Craig Smith | James was not retained after one season as the interim head coach. South Dakota finished 12–18. South Dakota hired former Nebraska assistant Smith. |
Southeastern Louisiana | Jim Yarbrough | | Jay Ladner | |
South Florida | Stan Heath | | Orlando Antigua | Heath was fired two seasons into a six-year contract he signed after he led USF to the 2012 NCAA tournament. His success at USF did not continue, as the Bulls finished each of the last two seasons at 12–19 overall and 3–15 in league play. South Florida hired Kentucky assistant Orlando Antigua. |
Southern Miss | Donnie Tyndall | | Doc Sadler | Tyndall left to take the Tennessee job. |
Tennessee | Cuonzo Martin | | Donnie Tyndall | Martin left to take the California job. |
Tennessee–Martin | Jason James | | Heath Schroyer | James was fired during his fifth season after posting a 37–117 record. |
Tennessee State | Travis Williams | | Dana Ford | |
Tulsa | Danny Manning | | Frank Haith | Manning left for the Wake Forest job. |
UNC Wilmington | Buzz Peterson | | Kevin Keatts | Peterson was fired at the end of his fourth season after posting a 42–82 record, ending with a last-place CAA finish this season. UNCW hired Louisville assistant Keatts. |
Virginia Tech | James Johnson | | Buzz Williams | After a 9–22 season, Johnson was fired at the end of his second season as head coach. Johnson was unable to keep two key players in the program—Dorian Finney-Smith transferred to Florida immediately after Johnson was elevated from assistant, and Montrezl Harrell, who had originally committed to Tech, instead went to Louisville. |
Wake Forest | Jeff Bzdelik | | Danny Manning | Bzdelik resigned after four seasons with records of 51–76 overall and 17–51 in ACC play. Like Ben Braun at Rice and Bennie Seltzer at Samford, Bzdelik was plagued by player transfers, with eight players transferring out during his tenure. Students responded by "rolling" trees in the campus quad with toilet paper, a Wake Forest tradition after big wins. |
Washington State | Ken Bone | | Ernie Kent | After five years and an 80–86 record, Bone was fired with two years left on his contract; Washington State will pay him the remaining balance of his contract. Bone's final season saw the Cougars go 10–21 overall and 3–15 in the Pac-12 . |
Western Illinois | Jim Molinari | | Billy Wright | |