Report: Indiana State basketball coach Josh Schertz in talks over Saint Louis job

The hits just keep on coming.

Indiana State basketball coach Josh Schertz is in talks with Saint Louis to be the Billikens next head coach, ESPN's Jeff Borzello and Pete Thamel first reported.

Schertz, the Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year, led the Sycamores to a regular-season league title and a No. 1 seed in the NIT. Indiana State was among the first four teams left out of the NCAA tournament, a victim of a bevy of conference tournament bid thieves. The Sycamores host SMU in the first round of the NIT.

Indiana State had bid stolen:'Under normal circumstances... they would have been in.'

Schertz steadily built the Sycamores from the ruins of the 2021 exodus of most of the roster, going 11-20 in his first season, then 23-13, and now 28-6 in Year 3.

St. Louis just fired Travis Ford, who reportedly made $2.3 million this season, more than six times the $365,000 Schertz earned.

Before arriving in Terre Haute, Schertz was a four-time Division II national coach of the year at Lincoln Memorial University. He transformed the Sycamores into one of the nation's most-pleasing-on-the-eye teams.

The Sycamores shot 38.5% on 3s this year and plays with tempo. Per KenPom, the average Indiana State offensive possession lasts 15.9 seconds, a top-30 rate in the country.

If Indiana State looks for an in-house candidate, associate head coach Matthew Graves figures to be in the mix. Graves, a former Butler player and assistant coach, was head coach at South Alabama for five seasons before joining the Sycamores staff in 2021.

IndyStar sports reporters Gregg Doyel and Zion Brown contributed to this story.