Mississippi State has prolonged the contract of coach Chris Jans by way of the 2027-28 season and given him a pay increase that begins at $1 million per 12 months, sources advised ESPN.
Jans will make $4.2 million in base wage subsequent season, bumping him from $3.2 million final 12 months. That increase will put amongst Jans the highest half of SEC basketball coaches. The deal consists of pay will increase and efficiency incentives, per sources.
Jans has led Mississippi State to back-to-back NCAA tournaments in his two seasons in Starkville, profitable 21 video games in each of his seasons. He is 42-27 general and the back-to-back NCAA appearances are the college’s first since reaching the 2008 and 2009 NCAA tournaments.
The varsity prolonged and bumped up Jans’ wage to experience that momentum and present the college is considerably invested in basketball. MSU has gone 8-10 within the SEC in each of Jans’ seasons, which culminated with losses to Pittsburgh within the First 4 of the NCAA event in 2023 and to No. 9 seed Michigan State within the 2024 NCAA event. Jans’ groups mixed for 3 SEC event wins throughout his two seasons there.
Jans got here to Mississippi State from New Mexico State. He holds the excellence of being the final coach to beat UConn within the NCAA event, knocking the No. 5 seed Huskies out because the coach at No. 12 NMSU in a first-round upset in 2022.
In eight seasons as a head coach at three totally different Division I colleges, Jans has a profession file of 185-71 and 5 NCAA event appearances. (He had a 25-win crew at New Mexico State that received the WAC regular-season title the season that COVID-19 cancelled the NCAA event.)