Pearl, Howland Land Big Contracts

Bruce Pearl of Tennessee and Ben Howland of UCLA are two of the most successful and well-paid college basketball coaches in the land, and they just got a little more bank this past week. Bruce Pearl was signed to coach the Tennessee Volunteers through the 2013 season, but he extended his contract to 2014 and also picked up some sweet incentive, buy-out and bonus dollars in a new deal with the University.

Ben Howland was signed well into the next decade, but he increased his deal through 2015, grabbed some extra loot to increase with each year he remains the coach at UCLA, but kept some of the incentive dollars the same in the new contract. Here are a few of their past accomplishments:

• Howland has guided the Bruins to three-straight Final Four appearances, and will go for a fourth this year.
• Bruce Pearl coached the Vols to a No. 1 AP ranking after they beat then-No. 1 Memphis during the 2007-08 regular season.
• Both the Volunteers and the Bruins won their respective conference titles last year, and both achieved their best regular season records in decades.

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