The competition for America’s best-dressed coach expanded from 16 to a full-blown 64-coach field, bracketed like the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. And the event has a new name. It’s now officially the “Runway to the Fashionable 4.”

Jay Wright’s dominance finally came to end as Lehigh’s Sal Mentesana, who had finished runner-up to the Hofstra coach in 1998 and 1999, finally out-styled his friend to claim the title. Kent State’s Gary Waters and Kentucky’s Tubby Smith made their first appearances in the Fashionable 4. Both look like future catwalk contenders.

THE 2000 FASHIONABLE 4
Sal Mentesana (Lehigh)
Tubby Smith (Kentucky)
Gary Waters (Kent State)
Jay Wright (Hofstra)