“We Have to Get a Lot Better” – Billy Donovan Didn’t Sugarcoat Anything in His End-of-Season Interviews
The math checks out: Billy Donovan is a winner.
When Arturas Karnsiovas and Marc Eversley hired Donovan, he walked into the Advocate Center with a 243-157 record as an NBA head coach. He compiled that 60.8 percent winning percentage over six seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder, appearing in the playoffs each season. Throw things all the way back to his time spent in college basketball, and we’ll find similar results. Donovan’s record sits at 502-206 between his two head coaching jobs at Marshall and Florida, and over his 21 years as a head coach at the collegiate level, he missed the postseason only six times.