College basketball coaching changes: Colorado State hires March Madness hero; Frank McCaffery lands at Penn

Well, we've hit the George Costanza portion of the coaching carousel.

By that I mean:

The news from Wednesday:

As first reported here at CBS Sports, Ross Hodge is the guy at West Virginia. He'll coach North Texas in the NIT in Indianapolis, then head to Morgantown and get to work with the Mountaineers.

Ali Farokhmanesh has been promoted at Colorado State after being Niko Medved's lead assistant in recent years, sources said. It was viewed as the logical move, and AD John Weber didn't wait long to make it official. Even better, we have a vintage March Madness Guy now running a D-I program.

The news from Tuesday:

Tuesday night brought a quicker-than-expected development: Xavier was able to hire New Mexico coach Richard Pitino. The deal got done over the evening and it's for six years. That means Pitino will coach against his father, Rick, twice a season (at least). The younger Pitino beat out Charleston coach Chris Mack for the opening, passing on potential opportunities at Villanova, VCU and West Virginia in the process.

VCU moved extremely quickly once Pitino was off the table; 43-year-old Bryant coach Phil Martelli Jr. will be leaving Rhode Island to head down to Richmond, Virginia, to coach the Rams on a six-year deal.

The news from Monday:

Sean Miller left Xavier to be the coach at Texas. It's a move that shocked -- and angered -- people at Xavier (understandably so). Miller was there for three seasons, took the Musketeers to two NCAA Tournaments and decided to bolt for Austin, Texas, and the promise of a bigger program in a bigger league with bigger money. Xavier was left scrambling to hire a coach just as the portal opens.

What's more, Josh Pastner agreed Monday night to be the next coach at UNLV. Pastner coveted the job from the moment it opened and was able to break through a long list of candidates interviewed there. He'll have a five-year deal. Pastner's career record is 276-187. He spent the past two seasons working in television, but I spoke to Pastner as recently as February and he told me then he was eager and wanting to get back into coaching this cycle. UNLV was for sure the best job opportunity available to him.

Here are the other recent hirings ... which also prompted job openings.

» Ben McCollum leaves Drake after one year to run Iowa» Niko Medved goes home to guide Minnesota» VCU's Ryan Odom is now at Virginia» Will Wade is on the ground at NC State

I've got more in the capsules below, including other hirings that are now a week-plus old.

As we told ya earlier this week, we'd hit 40-plus coaching flips before the tournament revved up again. Check in all of them below.

Major-conference changes Non-Power Five changes