The 191 most followed college basketball coaches on Twitter

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Last year, Chris Burrows put together a list for Run the Floor of the most followed college basketball coaches. He attempted to use every method possible for selecting the most verified account for all ~345 Division-I head coaches using a combination of Google searches and Twitter User searches. He was able to locate 189 accounts for head basketball coaches, most of which were active.

This year I deleted a few from his list, and added several more. Currently the list is at 191 coaches all of which are worth putting your money on through sites like bettingonlinesverige.se and the like for the MLB season.

There are still plenty of oddities. There is an account for Coach K, though it has never been used. Still, with over 2,000 followers – many of whom are Duke bloggers – if the account ever does send a tweet you can be sure it won’t happen quietly.

The biggest account is Coach Calipari, with 1,244,546 followers at the time of publishing. The other 190 coaches combine for 1,229,668 followers. But overall, the effect of Twitter is growing. Last year 22 coaches had more than 10,000 followers. Now that number is at 36.

You can follow coaches individually, or just go here and click ‘subscribe’ to follow the entire list.

Please email me at the ‘contact’ link above if you see a handle that is missing or is incorrect. This was a pretty huge undertaking, so there are no doubt some errors.

1	Kentucky	John Calipari	@UKCoachCalipari	1,244,546
2	Indiana	Tom Crean	@TomCrean	124,481
3	Florida	Billy Donovan	@UFCoachBillyD	95,743
4	Kansas	Bill Self	@CoachBillSelf	81,197
5	Nebraska	Tim Miles	@CoachMiles	48,447
6	Tennessee	Cuonzo Martin	@CuonzoMartin	37,261
7	South Carolina	Frank Martin	@FrankMartin_SC	34,375
8	West Virginia	Bob Huggins	@CoachHuggs	27,287
9	NC State	Mark Gottfriend	@Mark_Gottfried	26,451
10	Virginia Commonwealth	Shaka Smart	@coachsmartvcu	25,582

11	Northwestern	Chris Collins	@coach_collins	25,349
12	Michigan	John Beilein	@JohnBeilein	24,700
13	Iowa State	Fred Hoiberg	@ISUMayor32	22,846
14	Central Michigan	Keno Davis	@CoachKenoDavis	21,971
15	Arkansas	Mike Anderson	@MikeAndersonUA	21,901
16	Minnesota	Richard Pitino	@MNCoachPitino	19,346
17	Kansas State	Bruce Weber	@coachbruceweber	19,233
18	Arizona	Sean Miller	@UACoachMiller	17,872
19	Xavier	Chris Mack	@CoachChrisMack	17,735
20	Buffalo	Bobby Hurley	@BobbyHurley11	15,320
21	Missouri	Frank Haith	@FrankHaithMU	15,021
22	Maryland	Mark Turgeon	@CoachTurgeon	14,715
23	Marquette	Buzz Williams	@TeamCoachBuzz	14,639
24	Villanova	Jay Wright	@VUCoachJWright	14,090
25	Illinois	John Groce	@JohnGroce	13,831
26	Texas Tech	Tubby Smith	@CoachTubbySmith	13,748
27	Georgia	Mark Fox	@coachmarkfox	13,618
28	Mississippi State	Rick Ray	@RickRay1	12,779
29	Notre Dame	Mike Brey	@NDMikeBrey	12,469
30	Cincinnati	Mick Cronin	@CoachCroninUC	12,368
31	Oklahoma	Lon Kruger	@LonKruger	12,181
32	Creighton	Greg McDermott	@cucoachmac	12,155
33	Penn State	Pat Chambers	@Coach_Chambers	11,388
34	Tulsa	Danny Manning	@CoachDManning	10,865
35	St. John’s	Steve Lavin	@STJCoachLavin	10,111
36	Baylor	Scott Drew	@BUDREW	10,023
37	Miami	Jim Larranaga	@CanesCoachL	9,385
38	Washington	Lorenzo Romar	@CoachRomar	9,221
39	Auburn	Tony Barbee	@CoachTonyBarbee	9,201
40	Pittsburgh	Jamie Dixon	@CoachDixon	8,662
41	Texas A&M	Billy Kennedy	@Coach_Kennedy	8,296
42	UNC Greensboro	Wes Miller	@CoachWesMiller	7,826
43	Oklahoma State	Travis Ford	@OSUCoachFord5	7,768
44	Arizona State	Herb Sendek	@HerbSendek	7,014
45	Grand Canyon	Dan Majerle	@DanMajerle	6,714
46	UNLV	Dave Rice	@CoachDaveRice	6,497
47	Rhode Island	Dan Hurley	@dhurley15	6,088
48	Southern Methodist	Larry Brown	@LarryBrownSMU	6,088
49	Purdue	Matt Painter	@CoachPainter	5,994
50	Florida State	Leonard Hamilton	@FSUCoachHam	5,970
51	USC	Andy Enfield	@CoachEnfield	5,824
52	DePaul	Oliver Purnell	@CoachPurnell	5,628
53	Murray State	Steve Prohm	@CoachProhm	5,465
54	Massachusetts	Derek Kellogg	@CoachKellogg	5,238
55	Portland	Eric Reveno	@CoachReveno	5,226
56	Winthrop	Pat Kelsey	@patkelsey	5,101
57	South Florida	Stan Heath	@Coach_Heath	4,668
58	UCLA	Steve Alford	@UCLACoachAlford	4,249
59	Washington State	Ken Bone	@Ken_Bone	4,191
60	UNC Wilmington	Buzz Peterson	@BuzzPeterson	4,187
61	Boston College	Steve Donahue	@Coach_Donahue	4,064
62	Southern Miss	Donnie Tyndall	@coachtyndallusm	4,019
63	Oregon State	Craig Robinson	@OSBeav_CoachRob	3,880
64	South Dakota State	Scott Nagy	@CoachNagy	3,852
65	Santa Clara	Kerry Keating	@SCUHoops	3,641
66	Robert Morris	Andrew Toole	@AndyToole	3,441
67	Central Florida	Donnie Jones	@DonnieJonesUCF	3,404
68	San Francisco	Rex Walters	@USFBBallCoach	3,300
69	UAB	Jerod Haase	@CoachJerodHaase	3,286
70	Marshall	Tom Herrion	@CoachTomHerrion	3,074
71	Seattle	Cameron Dollar	@Coach_Dollar	3,014
72	Eastern Michigan	Rob Murphy	@robmurphyEMU	2,991
73	NC Central	LeVelle Moton	@LeVelleMoton	2,983
74	Florida Atlantic	Mike Jarvis	@coachmikejarvis	2,904
75	Chattanooga	Will Wade	@willwadeutc	2,832
76	Providence	Ed Cooley	@CoachCooleyPC	2,707
77	Towson	Pat Skerry	@CoachPatSkerry	2,684
78	Florida Gulf Coast	Joe Dooley	@FGCUCoachDooley	2,572
79	Duke	Mike Kryzyzewski	@MikeKryzyzewski	2,508
80	Utah	Larry Krystkowiak	@Lkrystkowiak	2,485
81	North Florida	Matthew Driscoll	@UNFBBALL	2,428
82	Tulane	Ed Conroy	@GreenWaveHoops	2,399
83	Long Beach State	Dan Monson	@CoachDMonson	2,390
84	St. Francis NY	Ryan Marks	@CoachRyanMarks	2,384
85	Seton Hall	Kevin Willard	@KevinWillard	2,336
86	Dayton	Archie Miller	@Archie_Miller	2,286
87	Rutgers	Eddie Jordan	@EddieJordanRU	2,228
88	Middle Tennessee	Kermit Davis	@MT_CoachDavis	2,115
89	Wright State	Billy Donlon	@CoachDolon	2,094
90	Stephen F. Austin	Brad Underwood	@CoachBradSFA	2,030
91	George Washington	Mike Lonergan	@MikeLonergan	2,025
92	Oakland	Greg Kampe	@KampeOU	1,971
93	Fresno State	Rodney Terry	@RodneyTerry	1,877
94	UT-Arlington	Scott Cross	@CoachScottCross	1,866
95	Lehigh	Brett Reed	@BrettReed	1,810
96	Georgia Tech	Brian Gregory	@GTBrianGregory	1,798
97	New Mexico State	Marvin Menzies	@MarvinMenzies	1,778
98	South Alabama	Matthew Graves	@USA_CoachGraves	1,768
99	Cal Poly	Joe Callero	@CoachCallero	1,750
100	Delaware	Monte Ross	@CoachMonteRoss	1,738
101	Cal State Bakersfield	Rod Barnes	@CoachRodBarnes	1,697
102	Jacksonville	Cliff Warren	@CliffWarren	1,664
102	Illinois State	Dan Muller	@danmuller	1,623
104	NJIT	Jim Engles	@CoachJimEngles	1,621
105	UC Davis	Jim Les	@CoachJimLes	1,554
106	Western Carolina	Larry Hunter	@CoachLHunter	1,477
107	Wake Forest	Jeff Bzdelik	@WFCoachBuzz	1,476
108	Drexel	Bruiser Flint	@ducoachflint	1,440
109	Northern Colorado	B.J. Hill	@CoachBJHill	1,284
110	Mount St. Mary’s	Jamion Christian	@JamionChristian	1,276
111	Northern Arizona	Jack Murphy	@NAUCoachMurphy	1,218
112	UIC	Howard Moore	@Howard_Moore	1,215
113	Akron	Ketih Dambrot	@CoachDambrot	1,204
114	Hofstra	Joe Mihalich	@JoeMihalich	1,160
115	Pepperdine	Marty Wilson	@MartyWilson4	1,134
116	Holy Cross	Milan Brown	@coachmbrown	1,098
117	Albany	Will Brown	@UAHOOPSWB	1,076
118	Louisiana	Bob Marlin	@bobbymarlin	1,076
119	Portland State	Tyler Geving	@PSUCoachGev	1,058
120	Northern Illinois	Mark Montgomery	2NIUCOACHMONTY	1,047
121	Kennesaw State	Lewis Preston	@KSUCoachPreston	1,035
122	North Dakota State	Saul Phillips	@SaulPhillips	1,031
123	Binghamton	Tommy Dempsey	@tadempsey4	1,021
124	Arkansas-Little Rock	Steve Shields	@ShielsUALR	1,014
125	Boston University	Joe Jones	@BUCoachJones	973
126	Detroit	Ray McCallum	@CoachMcCallum	961
127	Milwaukee	Rob Jeter	@CoachJeterUWM	943
128	Louisiana Tech	Michael White	@MikeWhiteLATech	925
129	Loyola	Porter Moser	@PorterMoser	903
130	Ball State	James Whitford	@coachjwhit	891
131	Evansville	Marty Simmons	@AceCoachSimmons	887
132	Howard	Kevin Nickelberry	@coachknick	799
133	Georgia Southern	Mark Byington	@GaSouth_CoachB	788
134	UMKC	Kareem Richardson	@KRICH21	786
135	Gardner-Webb	Tim Craft	@CoachTimCraft	783
136	Morgan State	Todd Bozeman	@CoachBoze	774
137	Liberty	Dale Layer	@coachlayer	772
138	Charlotte	Alan Major	@CoachMajor49	771
139	Northeastern	Bill Coen	@GoNUCoachCoen	767
140	Furman	Niko Medved	@coachNikoMedved	757
141	Cal State Fullerton	Dedrique Taylor	@CSFCoachTaylor	746
142	Ohio	Jim Christian	@TCUJimChristian	726
143	Tennessee Tech	Steve Payne	@TTU_StevePayne	717
144	Western Michigan	Steve Hawkins	@BroncoBBall	695
145	Lipscomb	Casey Alexander	@CaseyAlexander_	676
146	Oral Roberts	Scott Sutton	@CoachSSutton	640
147	Chicago State	Tracy Dildy	@tradil3	636
148	VMI	Duggar Baucom	@duggarvmihoops	590
149	IPFW	Tony Jasick	@TonyJasick	563
150	Fordham	Tom Pecora	@CoachTomPecora	556
151	Tennessee State	Travis Williams	@TSUCoachWill	523
152	IUPUI	Todd Howard	@CoachToddHoward	517
153	Vermont	John Becker	@coachbeckeruvm	510
154	Georgia State	Ron Hunter	@coachrhunter	503
155	East Tennessee State	Murray Bartow	@MurrayBartow	488
156	Army	Zach Spiker	@Coach_Spiker	453
157	Texas San Antonio	Brooks Thompson	@UTSACoachT	428
158	Campbell	Kevin McGeehan	@KCMcGeehan	427
159	Rider	Kevin Baggett	@CoachBaggett	427
160	Southern	Roman Banks	@CoachBanks_SU	414
161	Savannah State	Horace Broadnax	@CoachBroadnax	385
162	Southeast Missouri State	Dickey Nutt	@semohoops	379
163	Wagner	Bashir Mason	@BashirMason	369
164	The Citadel	Chuck Driesell	@ChuckDriesell	353
165	Alcorn State	Luther Riley	@LutherRiley	321
166	Troy	Phil Cunningham	@philtcunningham	315
167	Princeton	Mitch Henderson	@tigershoopscoach	306
168	Colgate	Matt Langel	@Matt_Langel	283
169	William & Mary	Tony Shaver	@TribeBasketball	282
170	Prairie View A&M	Byron Rimm II	@Coach_Rimm	276
171	Pacific	Ron Verlin	@RonVerlin	255
172	Loyola Marymount	Max Good	@CoachGood	252
173	Montana State	Brad Huse	@BradHuse	244
174	Charleston Southern	Barclay Radebaugh	@CoachRadebaugh	217
175	East Carolina	Jeff Lebo	@JeffLebo	191
176	Hawaii	Gib Arnold	@gibarnold	180
177	Sacred Heart	Anthony Latina	@AnthonyLatina	173
178	Longwood	Jayson Gee	@CoachJGee	136
179	Niagara	Chris Casey	@NUCoachCasey	136
180	South Carolina State	Murray Garvin	@CoachM_Garvin	131
181	Stetson	Corey Williams	@CoachWilliams12	124
182	Hampton	Edward Joyner	@CoachJoynerHU	106
183	Eastern Kentucky	Jeff Neubauer	@EKUCoach	96
184	Central Arkansas	Clarence Finley	@ucaCoachFin	56
185	Lousiana Monroe	Keith Richard	@CoachRichardULM	56
186	Iona	Tim Cluess	@THOOPS	41
187	New Hampshire	Bill Herrion	@CoachBHerrion	33
188	St. Francis PA	Rob Krimmel	@krimmel	31
189	Arkansas State	John Brady	@CoachJohnBrady	22
190	Central Connecticut	Howie Dickenman	@CCSUCoachD	22
191	Utah Valley	Dick Hunsaker	@mightywolverine	7

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