Mississippi State has extended coach Chris Jans' contract through the 2027-28 season and given him a pay raise that starts at $1 million per year, sources told ESPN.
Jans will earn $4.2 million in base salary next season, up from $3.2 million last year. That raise will put Jans in the top half of SEC basketball coaches. The agreement includes salary increases and performance incentives, according to sources.
Jans has led Mississippi State to back-to-back NCAA tournaments in his two seasons in Starkville, winning 21 games in both seasons. He is 42-27 overall and the back-to-back NCAA appearances are the school's first since he reached the 2008 and 2009 NCAA tournaments.
The school extended and increased Jans' salary to build on that momentum and show that the school is significantly invested in basketball. MSU has gone 8-10 in the SEC in Jans' two seasons, culminating in losses to Pittsburgh in the First Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2023 and to No. 9 seed Michigan State in the NCAA Tournament. 2024. Jans' teams combined to win three SEC tournaments during his two seasons there.
Jans came to the state of Mississippi from the state of New Mexico. He has the distinction of being the last coach to beat UConn in the NCAA Tournament, eliminating the No. 5-seeded Huskies as coach at No. 12 NMSU in a first-round upset in 2022.
In eight seasons as a head coach at three different Division I schools, Jans has a career record of 185-71 and five NCAA tournament appearances. (He had a 25-win New Mexico State team that won the WAC regular-season title the season COVID-19 canceled the NCAA tournament.)
