South Carolina has a reputation as a school where basketball takes a backseat to football.
If men’s basketball coach Frank Martin’s salary is any indication, that’s not exactly true.
According to USA Today’s annual database, Martin’s salary of $2.95 million a year ranks 22nd in the the country. The seventh-year head man has his team at 16-15 heading into the SEC tournament, off a season with a brutal schedule and rash of injuries.
Martin comes in fifth in the SEC behind Kentucky’s John Calipari ($9.28 million, 1st overall), Tennessee’s Rick Barnes ($3.