The circumstances surrounding Jake Diebler’s hiring don’t have a lot of precedent in college basketball.
Midseason firings aren’t generally common across high-major programs, and far less common are interim head coaches who earn full-time roles from their results after taking over for an outbound head coach.
That’s the situation Ohio State finds itself in now, however, after dropping the interim tag from Jake Diebler’s title on Sunday after he won six of eight games to close the 2023-24 season following the firing of Chris Holtmann. There’s a longer list of assistants that have been promoted internally by programs, but in those instances the head coaches being replaced were often revered by fans of those teams, not disdained in the way Holtmann was at the end of his tenure.