List of John McLendon Award winners

Every year since 2012, CollegeInsider.com has awarded the John McLendon Coach of the Year Award (or simply, John McLendon Award) to recognize the nation’s top collegiate head coach at any level (Division I, II, III, NAIA or NJCAA). The award is named after late Hall of Famer John McLendon, a trailblazer in college basketball and an incredible important figure in the integration of the game. McLendon was both the first African-American head coach at a predominantly white school (Cleveland State), as well as the first African-American coach of any professional sports team (ABA’s Denver Rockets). While the first seven awards were given to Division I coaches, the 2019 honor went to Division II head coach Ben McCollum.

Year	Coach	School
2012	Horace Broadnax	Savannah State
2013	John Thompson III	Georgetown
2014	Gregg Marshall	Wichita State
2015	Jim Engles	NJIT
2016	King Rice	Monmouth
2017	Chris Holtmann	Butler
2018	Chris Beard	Texas Tech
2019	Ben McCollum	Northwest Missouri State
2020	Joe Gallo	Merrimack
2021	Kelvin Sampson	Houston
2022	Hubert Davis	North Carolina
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