Report: Villanova Moves On From Head Coach Kyle Neptune

After three seasons without making the NCAA Tournament, the Villanova Wildcats have parted ways with head coach Kyle Neptune, per a report from CBS Sports college basketball insider Jon Rothstein.

Despite inheriting a program that made the Final Four under Jay Wright during the 2022 NCAA Tournament — and a pair of teams ranked among the preseason Top 25 in each of his first two seasons at the helm — Neptune and the Wildcats compiled a middling 54-47 record, including a 31-29 result in Big East play. They made the NIT in 2023 and 2024 but failed to advance past the first round, then saw their season come to a close with a comeback loss to UConn in the conference quarterfinals on March 13.

New Wildcats athletic director Eric Roedl will begin his coaching search amidst a brave new world of college basketball, the program at a crossroads as the sport figures out how to manage developments like the free-for-all transfer portal and Name, Image and Likeness deals… some of the factors that helped chase Wright into retirement in the first place.

For a ‘New Blood’ program with two national championships in the past decade, the Wildcats and their fans have learned to expect sky-high standards, ones that Neptune — for all his love for Villanova during more than a decade within the team, including eight years as an assistant under Wright — failed to meet.

The Wildcats face a busy offseason ahead. With all five of their starters during the 2024-25 season out of eligibility and a new head coach to find, the program will look wildly different in a matter of weeks.