Sporting News Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year Award

Sporting News College Basketball Coach of the Year
Awarded forthe most outstanding NCAA Division I men's basketball head coach
CountryUnited States
Presented byThe Sporting News magazine
History
First award1964
Most recentDan Hurley, UConn

The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year Award, often informally called the "Sporting News Coach of the Year Award," is an annual basketball award given to the best men's college basketball head coach in NCAA Division I competition. The award was first given in 1964 following the 1963–64 season and is presented by The Sporting News, a United States–based sports magazine that was established in 1886.

No award winner was selected in 1965.

John Wooden is the only person to receive the award four times. Bill Self has three awards, and John Calipari, Denny Crum, Rick Pitino, Adolph Rupp, and Tubby Smith have two each.

Four different Kentucky head coaches have combined to receive the award five times. Kentucky is also the only program with more than two individual recipients. UCLA has been honored four times, all during the Wooden era. Kansas coaches have three awards.

Key

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Coach (X) Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point if more than once

Winners

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Four-time honoree, John Wooden, ca. 1972.
Two-time honoree Adolph Rupp in 1954.
Two-time honoree Denny Crum in 2011.
Two-time honoree Rick Pitino in 2013.
Two-time honoree John Calipari in 2014.
Two-time honoree Tubby Smith in 2014.
Three-time honoree Bill Self in 2016.
Ed Cooley won the award in 2022.
Season Coach School
1963–64 John Wooden UCLA
1964–65 No award
1965–66 Adolph Rupp Kentucky
1966–67 Jack Hartman Southern Illinois
1967–68 Guy Lewis Houston
1968–69 John Wooden (2) UCLA
1969–70 Adolph Rupp (2) Kentucky
1970–71 Al McGuire Marquette
1971–72 John Wooden (3) UCLA
1972–73 John Wooden (4) UCLA
1973–74 Digger Phelps Notre Dame
1974–75 Bob Knight Indiana
1975–76 Tom Young Rutgers
1976–77 Lee Rose UNC Charlotte
1977–78 Bill E. Foster Duke
1978–79 Bill Hodges Indiana State
1979–80 Lute Olson Iowa
1980–81 Dale Brown LSU
1981–82 Ralph Miller Oregon State
1982–83 Denny Crum Louisville
1983–84 John Thompson Jr. Georgetown
1984–85 Lou Carnesecca St. John's
1985–86 Denny Crum (2) Louisville
1986–87 Rick Pitino Providence
1987–88 John Chaney Temple
1988–89 P. J. Carlesimo Seton Hall
1989–90 Jim Calhoun Connecticut
1990–91 Rick Pitino (2) Kentucky
1991–92 Mike Krzyzewski Duke
1992–93 Eddie Fogler Vanderbilt
1993–94 Norm Stewart Missouri
1994–95 Jud Heathcote Michigan State
1995–96 John Calipari Massachusetts
1996–97 Roy Williams Kansas
1997–98 Bill Guthridge North Carolina
1998–99 Cliff Ellis Auburn
1999–2000 Bob Huggins Cincinnati
Bill Self Tulsa
2000–01 Al Skinner Boston College
2001–02 Ben Howland Pittsburgh
2002–03 Tubby Smith Kentucky
2003–04 Mike Montgomery Stanford
2004–05 Bruce Weber Illinois
2005–06 Bruce Pearl Tennessee
2006–07 Tony Bennett Washington State
2007–08 Keno Davis Drake
2008–09 Bill Self (2) Kansas
2009–10 Jim Boeheim Syracuse
2010–11 Jamie Dixon Pittsburgh
2011–12 Bill Self (3) Kansas
2012–13 Jim Crews Saint Louis
2013–14 Gregg Marshall Wichita State
2014–15 John Calipari (2) Kentucky
2015–16 Tubby Smith (2) Texas Tech
2016–17 Mark Few Gonzaga
2017–18 Mick Cronin Cincinnati
2018–19 Mike Young Wofford
2019–20 Anthony Grant Dayton
2020–21 Juwan Howard[1] Michigan
2021–22 Ed Cooley Providence
2022–23 Rodney Terry Texas
2023–24 Dan Hurley[2] UConn

Winners by school

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Schools are listed here by their current athletic brand names, which do not necessarily match those used at the time an award was presented.

School Winners Years
Kentucky 5 1966, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2015
UCLA 4 1964, 1969, 1972, 1973
Kansas 3 1997, 2009, 2012
Cincinnati 2 2000, 2018
Duke 2 1978, 1992
Louisville 2 1983, 1986
Pittsburgh 2 2002, 2011
Providence 2 1987, 2022
UConn 2 1990, 2024
Auburn 1 1999
Boston College 1 2001
Charlotte 1 1977
Dayton 1 2020
Drake 1 2008
Georgetown 1 1984
Gonzaga 1 2017
Houston 1 1968
Illinois 1 2005
Indiana 1 1975
Indiana State 1 1979
Iowa 1 1980
LSU 1 1981
Marquette 1 1971
Michigan 1 2021
Michigan State 1 1995
Missouri 1 1994
North Carolina 1 1998
Notre Dame 1 1974
Oregon State 1 1982
Rutgers 1 1976
St. John's 1 1985
Saint Louis 1 2013
Seton Hall 1 1989
Southern Illinois 1 1967
Stanford 1 2004
Syracuse 1 2010
Temple 1 1988
Tennessee 1 2006
Texas 1 2023
Texas Tech 1 2016
Tulsa 1 2000
UMass 1 1996
Vanderbilt 1 1993
Washington State 1 2007
Wichita State 1 2014
Wofford 1 2019

Footnotes

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  1. ^ DeCourcy, Mike (March 9, 2021). "Michigan's Juwan Howard is Sporting News' 2020-21 Coach of the Year". Sporting News. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  2. ^ DeCourcy, Mike (March 14, 2023). "Sporting News' College Basketball Coach of the Year: UConn's Dan Hurley living up to his own standard". Sporting News. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

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