Sporting News Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year Award
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 Sporting News (formerly The Sporting News), a United States–based sports magazine that was established in 1886.
Awarded for | the most outstanding NCAA Division I men's basketball head coach |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Sporting News magazine |
History | |
First award | 1964 |
Most recent | Rodney Terry, Texas (2023) |
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.
Kentucky head coaches have received the award five times. UCLA has been honored four times, all during the Wooden era. Kansas coaches have three awards.
Key
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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Winners by school
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 |
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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 |
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 |
UConn | 1 | 1990 |
UMass | 1 | 1996 |
Vanderbilt | 1 | 1993 |
Washington State | 1 | 2007 |
Wichita State | 1 | 2014 |
Wofford | 1 | 2019 |
Footnotes
- DeCourcy, Mike (March 9, 2021). "Michigan's Juwan Howard is Sporting News' 2020-21 Coach of the Year". Sporting News. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
References
- "List of Sporting News Coach of the Year winners". Coaches Database. Retrieved 3 April 2021.