The college basketball season has come to an end and the Kentucky Wildcats are entering the offseason without a head coach. It’s one of the biggest jobs in the sport and is likely to be attractive to several different coaches.

UConn head coach Dan Hurley is likely the top available name. However, if he turns Kentucky down, college basketball analyst Seth Greenberg says that he thinks the best fit for Kentucky is Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl.

“If it’s not Coach Hurley and it’s not Billy Donovan, the best fit for Kentucky in my opinion is Bruce Pearl,” Seth Greenberg said on Get Up. “Because he brings all the energy, the passion, the ownership. He’s a brilliant coach. He had success at Tennessee. He’s had incredible success at Auburn.”

A Massachusetts native, Bruce Pearl graduated from Boston College and began coaching as an assistant in 1982. By 1992, he was the head coach at Southern Indiana. Then, in 2005, he got his first SEC experience when Tennessee hired him to be the team’s head coach. While there, he went 145-61 and made the NCAA Tournament in each of his six seasons there.

Later, Pearl took over at Auburn and took the Tigers to their first Final Four in program history in 2019. This past season, he led Auburn to an SEC Tournament Championship.

“To me, Bruce Pearl has the energy that you need to deal with the Big Blue Nation, and he is not a good coach. He is a great coach. He’s won at hard places. He missed no steps in his coaching career,” Greenberg concluded.

Seth Greenberg criticized Kentucky ahead of John Calipari’s pending departure

Following the news that John Calipari was leaving Kentucky, Seth Greenberg was critical of Kentucky. He also added that he was excited for Calipari at Arkansas.

“He’s not walking away from Kentucky, he’s walking to Arkansas. And basically everyone wants to be wanted, he got to a point at Kentucky he didn’t feel like he was wanted. Over the last year and a half he’s had minimal or no relationship with his athletic director. I’ve been through that. You feel like you’re on an island,” Greenberg said.

“I don’t care how many games you win, I don’t care how good your players are. He loves his players, he loves everything about coaching that team but it is suffocating when you have your support system isn’t on the same page. Coaching’s hard enough, but when your support system is pulling in another direction that becomes a problem. So to me, I’m really excited for him.”