Former Texas A&M Aggies basketball coach Buzz Williams signed a six-year deal to replace Kevin Willard at Maryland on Tuesday.

With the news that Buzz Williams has signed a six-year deal with Maryland, here are five potential candidates AD Treve Alberts should target.

Maryland is hiring Texas A&M coach Buzz Williams to succeed Kevin Willard, according to CBS Sports analyst Jon Rothstein. The Aggies coach will take over a program without a sitting athletic director after Maryland AD Damon Evans left for the same job at SMU last month.

Maryland has reached an agreement with Buzz Williams to make him the new men's basketball coach, according to CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein. Pete Thamel of ESPN reported the sides finalized a six-year contract.

The 52-year-old Williams, who Texas A&M hired away from Virginia Tech in 2019, was coming off his best season at Texas A&M, guiding the Aggies to a 23-11 record and a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament, their highest since 2016. However, Texas A&M was knocked out by five-seed Michigan in the second round.

New broke Tuesday that Texas A&M head basketball coach Buzz Williams will be departing Aggieland after six seasons to take the Maryland job.

The Texas A&M Aggies' Buzz Williams was not the only SEC head coach who has been rumored to potentially be interested in the now-vacant Maryland Terrapins job.

Buzz Williams has been named Maryland’s next men’s basketball coach. Here’s what The Baltimore Sun staff has to say.