Michigan Wolverines basketball's Juwan Howard won the AP National Coach of the Year Award.

It oftentimes takes college basketball coaches time to settle in at new respective programs before turning their clubs into a consistent winner. Regular-season and postseason success seldom come right off the bat in a coach's tenure, but that has not been the case for Michigan Wolverines basketball head man Juwan Howard.

He won the outright Big Ten regular-season title and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament in just his second year on the job in 2021, with both accomplishments representing rare feats for Big Ten coaches over the last 30 years early in their tenures.

In fact, we took a look back at how many conference coaches since 1990 have hit the ground running the way Howard has. Prior to this season, only four coaches in the Big Ten took their club to at least the Elite Eight during their first two years on the job.

Only three different coaches, meanwhile (excluding Howard), have won an outright Big Ten regular-season championship through their sophomore campaign since 1990, though it's worth noting former Illinois head man Bruce Weber achieved the feat during each of his first two years on the job in 2004 and 2005.

Nearly all of the aforementioned accomplishments took place in the early-to-mid-2000s. The reasoning is more than likely due to the fact there was an immense amount of coaching turnover at some of the conference's winningest school's at that time, with Mike Davis taking over for Bobby Knight at Indiana in 2000-01, Bo Ryan taking over for Dick Bennett at Wisconsin in 2001-02, Bill Self succeeding Lon Kruger at Illinois in 2000-01, etc.