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

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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.

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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

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

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.
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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.

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Footnotes

  1. [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. [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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