Coach Kim Mulkey, who led the LSU girls’s basketball group to the NCAA title in April, has agreed to phrases with the varsity on a brand new 10-year contract price $32 million, sources confirmed to ESPN. The deal should nonetheless be authorised by the LSU board of supervisors, which meets on Friday.
When finalized, Mulkey’s $32 million deal would be the richest complete contract in girls’s school basketball historical past.
The information was first reported Wednesday by The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which obtained the data via a public information request. Mulkey’s compensation will preserve her proper on the prime of the highest-paid girls’s basketball coaches within the nation when it comes to common annual wage, together with the UConn Huskies’ Geno Auriemma and the South Carolina Gamecocks’ Daybreak Staley.
Auriemma, who has received 11 NCAA titles, had his contract prolonged in Might 2021 to take him via 2025; that deal was for $15 million and was retroactive to 2020. It is estimated he earned $3 million this previous season.
Staley, who has received two NCAA titles, agreed to a seven-year, $22.7 million deal in October 2021 and in addition earned an estimated $3 million this previous season. The Gamecocks had been the top-ranked group and unbeaten till falling within the nationwide semifinals to Iowa. Then LSU beat Iowa for the Tigers’ first NCAA title in girls’s basketball.
It was the fourth championship for Mulkey, 61, as a head coach; she received three with the Baylor Bears earlier than returning to her native Louisiana within the spring of 2021 to take over at LSU. She initially signed an eight-year deal that might pay $22.5 million earlier than incentives.
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