USC coach Andy Enfield receives contract extension through 2027-28 season

Andy Enfield isn’t going anyplace.

After the coach adopted a unprecedented Elite Eight run with the winningest common season at school historical past, USC left little doubt about its want to proceed that course with Enfield, inking him to an extension by the 2027-28 season.

The brand new deal will preserve Enfield in Los Angeles for the foreseeable future, simply as different potential suitors started to precise curiosity within the USC coach.

“Andy has continued to fulfill and exceed each expectation we’ve got set for him,” USC athletic director Mike Bohn mentioned in an announcement. “In our three years working collectively, our males’s basketball program has loved unprecedented success and the nationwide panorama of faculty basketball has taken discover. That could be a testomony to Andy’s management of this system, our coaches and assist workers, and our proficient basketball gamers. Andy’s unbelievable accomplishments stand on their very own.”

These triumphs continued this season, as USC received 25 regular-season video games, essentially the most at school historical past. In his ninth yr as coach, Enfield has 182 wins, essentially the most for any coach at USC since Bob Boyd, who left in 1979. Solely two high-major faculties (Kansas and Baylor) have received extra school basketball video games than USC over the past three seasons.

After enduring a tough begin at USC, with simply 23 wins over his first two years, Enfield has a traditionally rocky basketball program standing on its most secure floor in many years. The Trojans received 21 or extra video games in six of his previous seven seasons, even including Pac-12 coach of the yr honors to his resume in 2021. His follow-up this season was arguably even higher, as USC was tasked with changing top-three NBA draft choose Evan Mobley and nonetheless proceeded to place collectively the most effective common season at school historical past (25-6).

“I feel the trajectory of this program will proceed to maintain going,” Enfield mentioned final week after USC’s loss to Arizona. “Going to the Elite Eight final yr for the second time in 67 years at USC, I feel individuals are beginning to understand, ‘Hey, that is enjoyable to go to 2 hours on the Galen Middle.’ So we’re very appreciative and I feel we will proceed to construct this factor and develop.”

The pursuit of one other postseason run begins Thursday, as USC opens Pac-12 match play in opposition to Washington, with an opportunity to show itself once more on a giant stage in March. Despite his spectacular NCAA credentials, Enfield has by no means received the convention match as USC’s coach — and solely as soon as has he reached the finals. However Enfield has additionally by no means had a workforce with the expertise of his present group, which noticed firsthand final season what’s required to outlive in March.

“We anticipate to win. Similar to we’ve received a variety of video games this yr,” Enfield mentioned Tuesday. “You’re coming off an Elite Eight run final season. Our gamers are hungry to get again there. They know what it takes. They’ve been there.”

Enfield’s contract was first prolonged by the 2025-26 season following that Elite Eight run, USC’s first journey that deep into the match since 2001. His newest extension, which Bohn known as “a brand new six-year contract,” features a increase in wage, although the phrases of Enfield’s new deal weren’t disclosed.

Two extensions inside a single yr definitely sends a message.

“My household and I are very completely happy to be a part of the Trojan Household,” Enfield mentioned in an announcement. “I really feel nice about the way forward for USC basketball within the Pac-12 and nationally.”

Rumors swirled in current weeks that Enfield would take into account different school teaching jobs if a super one emerged. The opening at Maryland appeared a very good match for Enfield, who grew up lower than two hours away and accomplished his MBA in Faculty Park.

However USC didn’t let that hypothesis get far. As an alternative, Bohn preempted the potential of shedding the coach, which might’ve meant one other uphill climb for a program at the moment on its finest trajectory in years.

The Trojans aren’t precisely hovering into the postseason. Losses final week to UCLA and Arizona left USC with lots to reply this week in Las Vegas.

However any considerations about shedding its coach had been quelled on Wednesday, simply as USC set off on what it hopes can be one other March run to recollect.