College coaches’ bonuses for team performance usually are a simple matter. A specified achievement results in a fixed amount.

That isn’t the case for two of the coaches involved the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Sweet 16 that begins Thursday night, although for markedly different reasons.

Purdue’s contract with Matt Painter says that if the Boilermakers advance to the Elite Eight, he gets a fixed bonus for the round-of-16 victory plus an additional amount. There is a prescribed minimum for the additional bonus, but whether Painter ends up with the minimum or another amount is “to be determined by the University’s President in consultation with the Athletic Director.”

Third-seeded Purdue meets No. 2 seed Tennessee on Thursday night, and Purdue President Mitch Daniels and AD Mike Bobinski presumably would welcome the need to decide if Painter should get more than the roughly $142,000 he would be guaranteed for the Boilermakers’ first Elite Eight appearance since 2000.

LSU, meanwhile, is dealing with the flux from indefinitely suspending coach Will Wade on March 8 while it looks into his alleged connection to the federal investigation of corruption in college basketball.

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Tony Benford, an assistant under Wade, is serving as interim head coach and has led the third-seeded Tigers to a matchup with No. 2 seed Michigan State on Friday night. Benford’s assistant-coach contract includes a $325,000 annual salary and modest bonuses – 7 percent of that amount for the Tigers making the Sweet 16 and an additional 3 percent if they advance to the Final Four.

Schools sometimes provide compensation and/or bonus increases to assistants when they temporarily add head coaching duties. LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard told USA TODAY via email on Wednesday, “No decisions have been made at this time regarding additional compensation for Tony Benford.”

As for Wade, the $50,000 bonus he was to receive for LSU winning the Southeastern Conference regular season championship is contractually on hold pending the investigations’ outcomes or other actions by the school. His contract also says that any bonuses connected to NCAA tournament play are “additional compensation for the extra services required of coach in the preparation for and his participation in post-season play”. That potentially impacts $100,000 he would have received for the team getting a tournament bid, and $100,000 he would have received had he coached the team to the Sweet 16.

Ballard said that with Wade, “everything is on hold pending further developments.”

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Here are the details of coaches' bonuses, listed in alphabetical order by school:

Auburn’s Bruce Pearl

Has …

$25,000: 22 wins in season

$25,000: 25 wins in season

$50,000: SEC tournament title

$50,000: NCAA tournament bid

$50,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$100,000: Elite Eight appearance

$100,000: Final Four appearance

$100,000: NCAA final appearance

$200,000: Win NCAA title

Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton

Has …

$50,000: At least 20 wins in season

$50,000: At least 12 ACC regular-season wins

$200,000: NCAA tournament bid

$50,000: Back-to-back NCAA tournament bids

$50,000: Top-Four seed in NCAA tournament

$50,000: Round of 32 appearance

$225,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$250,000: Elite Eight appearance

$275,000: Final Four appearance

$150,000: NCAA final appearance

$500,000: Win NCAA title

►Best 1 of 2:

— $50,000: No. 20 through No. 11 ranking in final USA TODAY Coaches Poll— $200,000: Top-10 ranking in final USA TODAY Coaches Poll

Houston’s Kelvin Sampson

Has …

$10,000: Top-25 ranking in USA TODAY Coaches Poll or Associated Press media poll any time during season

$10,000: At least 22 regular-season wins

$10,000: American Athletic regular season title

$100,000: NCAA tournament bid

$20,000: Top-25 ranking in final AP poll (was No. 11)

$100,000: Round of 32 appearance

$100,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$100,000: Elite Eight appearance

$100,000: Final Four appearance

$100,000: NCAA final appearance

$150,000: Win NCAA title

Kentucky’s John Calipari

Has …

None

Can get …

None

LSU’s Tony Benford

Has:

$22,750*: NCAA tournament Sweet 16 appearance

Can get:

$9,750*: Final Four appearance

*Benford serving as interim head coach, but amounts are based on $325,000 salary called for under his contract as an assistant coach, which incorporates athletics department bonus policy stating the bonus amounts are maximums and require athletics director’s recommendation and approval by LSU’s president and governing board. University spokesman Ernie Ballard said via email “no decisions have been made at this time regarding additional compensation” for Benford for serving as interim coach.

Note: Coach Will Wade’s contract provides for bonuses of $50,000 for SEC regular season title, and – if he participates – $100,000 for NCAA tournament bid and $100,000 for Sweet 16 appearance. Ballard said via email “everything is on hold pending further developments” with LSU’s investigation of program and Wade’s indefinite suspension that the school announced March 8. Wade’s contract normally calls for another $100,000 for a Final Four appearance and $150,000 more for the NCAA title.

Michigan’s John Beilein

Has …

$25,000: NCAA tournament bid

$25,000: Round of 32 appearance

$25,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get ...

$25,000: Elite Eight appearance

$25,000: Final Four appearance

$25,000: NCAA final appearance

$25,000: Win NCAA title

Michigan State’s Tom Izzo

Has …

$50,000: Big Ten regular season co-champ

$25,000: NCAA tournament bid

$25,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$100,000*: Final Four appearance

$150,000*: Win NCAA title

*In addition, according to his personal contract with Nike, Izzo can get $25,000 from the company if the team appears in the Final Four and an additional $50,000 if the team wins the NCAA title.

North Carolina’s Roy Williams

Has ...

$45,148: NCAA tournament bid

$100,000: Round of 32 appearance

$150,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get ...

$200,000: Elite Eight appearance

$200,000: Final Four appearance

$250,000: Win NCAA title

Oregon’s Dana Altman

Has ...

$40,000: Pac-12 tournament title

$25,000: NCAA tournament bid

$50,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get ...

$100,000: Final Four appearance

$250,000: Win NCAA title

Purdue’s Matt Painter

Has …

$94,896: Big Ten regular season co-champ

$23,724: NCAA tournament bid

$23,724: Round of 32 appearance

$23,724: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$47,448: Elite Eight appearance

TBD*: Elite Eight appearance

$47,448: Final Four appearance

$47,448: National final appearance

$47,448: Win NCAA title

*For reaching the Elite Eight, Painter gets an additional bonus in an amount to be determined by the university’s president, in consultation with the athletics director, although this payment must be at least $94,896.

Note: Because Purdue finished tied for first in Big Ten regular-season play, got an NCAA tournament bid that placed it in the first round, and it has won two games in the tournament, Painter will get an additional bonus of $50,000 if the team’s cumulative grade-point average for this academic year falls within an annually predetermined range. If Purdue advances to the Elite Eight, and the team’s GPA exceeds the predetermined range, this bonus instead would be $75,000. If Purdue advances to the Final Four, and the team’s GPA exceeds the pre-determined range, this bonus instead would be $100,000.

Tennessee’s Rick Barnes

Has …

$125,000: NCAA tournament bid

$25,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$50,000: Elite Eight appearance

$50,000: Final Four appearance

$250,000: Win NCAA title

Texas Tech’s Chris Beard

Has …

$250,000: Big 12 regular season co-champs

$50,000: NCAA tournament bid

$25,000: Top-10 ranking in final Associated Press media poll (was No. 9)

$25,000: Round of 32 appearance

$50,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$75,000: Elite Eight appearance

$100,000: Final Four appearance

$200,000: Win NCAA title

Virginia’s Tony Bennett

Has ...

$150,000: Top-10 ranking in final Associated Press media poll (was No. 2)

$50,000: NCAA tournament bid

$100,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get ...

$250,000: Elite Eight appearance

$250,000: Final Four appearance

$400,000: Win NCAA title

Virginia Tech’s Buzz Williams

Has …

$25,000: NCAA tournament bid

$25,000: Round of 32 appearance

$25,000: Sweet 16 appearance

Can get …

$25,000: Final Four appearance

$50,000: Win NCAA title

Except as noted, this list does not take into account contingencies that could alter or prevent payment of bonuses, such as academic achievement by players, the coach's departure from the school, future investigations and/or sanctions related to rules violations. It also does not include bonuses for coaching honors, team academic performance, attendance, season-ticket sales, or the value of tickets or perks tied to tournament participation.

Amounts for Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Gonzaga’s Mark Few are not available because their schools are private and not required to release their employment contracts.