Willard, the former Seton Hall coach, was booed at his send-off ahead of the Florida Sweet 16 game as Maryland fans became increasingly irritated with his recent comments and the perception that he was dissing the school in the middle of the NCAA Tournament.

Maryland has a new head coach after the Kevin Willard fiasco. The Terrapins signed Texas A&M’s Buzz Williams to a six-year deal to be their next head coach, according to ESPN. Williams, 52, has spent the last six seasons with the Aggies,

Kevin Willard, now head coach for Maryland, achieved his first NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance after previously coaching at Seton Hall. Willard expressed that he wished he had achieved this milestone while coaching at Seton Hall, where his teams ...

Maryland coach Kevin Willard has been having a busy last few weeks from leading the Terrapins to their first Sweet 16 berth in the last nine years to craftily dodging rumors about Villanova's head coaching vacancy.

In a moment of déjà vu, Maryland Terrapins head coach Kevin Willard’s postgame comments after the Terrapins’ Sweet 16 loss to Florida have gone viral—drawing comparisons to the statements he made in 2022 before leaving Seton Hall for Maryland.

Willard has been connected to the Villanova coaching search for weeks so this doesn't come as much of a surprise. The 49-year-old just finished his best season at Maryland, in which the Terrapins went 27-9 and reached the Sweet 16 in the 2025 NCAA tournament. That followed his first two seasons, which would generously be deemed up and down.

Willard will replace Kyle Neptune, who was fired earlier this month after three seasons without an NCAA Tournament appearance. It’s possible Maryland standouts Ja’Kobi Gillespie and Rodney Rice could enter the portal and follow Willard to Villanova.

As of early Sunday morning, one of the worst kept secrets in college basketball is officially no longer a secret… according to ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, former Maryland Terrapins head coach Kevin Willard will be leaving the Big Ten to return to the Big East to become the head coach of the Villanova Wildcats.

Willard, who turns 50 on April 6, led Maryland to a 65-39 overall record in three seasons at the school, with two March Madness appearances in three seasons. This was his seventh NCAA Tournament berth overall after getting there five times with Seton Hall, and his first time in the Sweet 16.