Frank Martin is out as South Carolina men's basketball coach after 10 seasons on the job, sources confirmed to CBS Sports' Matt Norlander on Monday. Martin posted a 171-147 record in his decade with the program, which was highlighted by a 2017 Final Four run. The former Kansas State coach ends his tenure having posted a 79-99 mark with the Gamecocks.
South Carolina rallied from a 1-4 start to SEC play this season to finish 18-13 (9-9 SEC). But with a NET ranking of 93, the Gamecocks were not a serious at-large contender for the 2022 NCAA Tournament. The 2017 Final Four team was the only squad from Martin's tenure to reach the Big Dance.
That team, led by Sindarius Thornwell, was just a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament and had lost five of its last seven games entering the Big Dance. But behind Thornwell's hot hand and a stifling defense, the Gamecocks rounded into form at the right time to reach the program's first-ever Final Four.
Martin arrived to South Carolina following a five-year stint as Kansas State's head coach and inherited a team coming off three consecutive losing seasons. In 2015-16, his fourth season on the job, the Gamecocks finished 25-9 (11-7 SEC) but on the wrong side of the NCAA Tournament bubble. That season set the stage for the 2016-17 team to make history. South Carolina's Round of 64 win over Marquette in the 2017 NCAA Tournament marked the program's first victory in the event since 1973. Aside from 2017, the Gamecocks have been to just one Big Dance since 1998.
