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Bruce Pearl explains why Auburn basketball didn’t celebrate SEC Championship after Alabama loss
Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl explains why the Tigers didn’t celebrate their SEC Championship following a 93-91 overtime loss to No. 7 Alabama on March 8, 2025, at Neville Arena in Auburn, Ala.
AUBURN — This season, Auburn basketball is one of the priciest jobs in the country, with Bruce Pearl being a front-runner for coaching salary in the SEC and all of college basketball.
Pearl was the sixth-highest-paid coach in the nation during the 2024-25 season, and the second-highest-paid in the SEC, according to the USA TODAY Sports college basketball head coach salaries database, with a salary of $5.9 million.
The only coaches to surpass Pearl in pay this season are some of the sport’s titans. Kansas’ Bill Self was the highest-paid coach, at $8.8 million, with Arkansas’ John Calipari, UConn’s Dan Hurley, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and UCLA’s Mick Cronin following. Calipari was the highest-paid coach in the SEC, at $8 million.
Three other SEC coaches — Tennessee’s Rick Barnes, Alabama’s Nate Oats and Kentucky’s Mark Pope — had salaries crack the $5 million mark.
According to Pearl’s contract, the terms of his buyout are $11.7 million as of April 1. However, the coach is in the midst of his fourth-straight 20-win season on the Plains, and his seventh in eight seasons. He also coached the Tigers to the fifth SEC championship of his tenure.
Total pay for all SEC basketball coaches during 2024-25 season
(Vanderbilt’s coaching salaries are not public record since it is a private university.)
Arkansas coach John Calipari: $8,000,000Auburn coach Bruce Pearl: $5,958,852 Tennessee…
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Publish date : 2025-03-13 11:05:00
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