The Missouri Athletic Department has chosen a sitting Big 12 coach as the main focus in its search for a new women’s basketball coach. The coach in question is Kansas State’s Jeff Mittie, who has been with the Wildcats since the 2014-15 season.

Already this postseason, six power conference coaching jobs have opened — one in the Big Ten, two in the SEC and three in the Big 12. For a while, I’ve been chatting with women’s basketball insiders about what this coaching cycle will look like because big changes are coming with revenue sharing and financial units (multi-million dollar payments the NCAA awards to conferences in March Madness tournaments) hitting the sport within months of one another.