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Report: Arizona Wildcats’ Tommy Lloyd to receive contract extension
Head coach Tommy Lloyd of the Arizona Wildcats indicators his gamers as they tackle the UCLA Bruins in the course of the Pac-12 Convention basketball event championship sport at T-Cell Enviornment on March 12, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Wildcats defeated the Bruins 84-76. (Picture by Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
(Picture by Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
Arizona Wildcats males’s basketball head coach Tommy Lloyd has a contract extension on the horizon, in response to Jon Rothstein.
The extension is to be by means of the 2026-27 season, pending approval from the Arizona Board of Regents, which is scheduled to satisfy on Thursday with the pinnacle coach’s contract extension on the agenda.
The Arizona Day by day Star’s Bruce Pascoe stories that Lloyd shall be receiving an annual increase of $1 million per 12 months, which boosts him as much as a median of $3.6 million per season from the varsity.
He may also obtain $200,000 from Nike and IMG apiece.
Lloyd led the Wildcats to a 33-4 document in his first 12 months on the helm in Tucson, together with going an ideal 17-0 on the McKale Heart.
The pinnacle coach was additionally named the AP Nationwide Coach of the 12 months.
Arizona went 17-2 in convention play in the course of the common season and adopted that spectacular feat with a Pac-12 Event title to win the convention outright.
The Wildcats obtained a No. 1 seed within the NCAA Event because of their 2021-22 marketing campaign, however their season got here to an finish within the Candy 16 by the hands of the No. 5 seeded Houston Cougars.
Lloyd and Co. may also need to cope with key departures subsequent season, as guards Bennedict Mathurin and Dalen Terry, in addition to middle Christian Koloko, have all declared for the 2022 NBA Draft on June 23.
Mathurin was the 2022 Pac-12 Participant of the 12 months, whereas Koloko was the 2022 Pac-12 Defensive Participant of the 12 months.