1. Tex Winter Naismith Hall of Fame coach, assistant to the Bulls Micheal Jordan dynasty.
2. Bill Foster, head coach at Rutgers, Utah, Duke, & South Carolina before Northwestern. Won a national championship at Duke in 1978.
3. Bill Carmody, coached Northwestern 15 years and had some really good years from 2008 to 2012 with taking Northwestern to the NIT each of those years, but never quite getting them to the NCAA, before leaving to coach at Holy Cross, and before Northwestern, coach 5 years at Princeton.
4. Chris Collins, been at Northwestern 7 years now and was the only coach in Northwestern's 116 year basketball history and 67 year history in the Big Ten to lead them to an NCAA tournament bid.
The university believes in strict academic admission standards and evidently doesn't make exceptions. It pertains to all Northwestern sports but effects the basketball team the most because of the limited roster numbers. Not hard to understand why it's a difficult job to succeed.