# Purdue’s Matt Painter Joins Top 10 Highest-Paid College Basketball Coaches After Raise, Extension

- Source: Forbes
- Published: 2026-10-27T21:10:08+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2026/10/27/purdues-matt-painter-joins-top-10-highest-paid-college-basketball-coaches-after-raise-extension/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/purdue-s-matt-painter-joins-top-10-highest-paid-college-basketball-coa-81bafd/

That will make Painter one of the Top 10 highest-paid coaches, per USA Today, and puts him close to Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, the highest-paid coach in the Big Ten.

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