List of NABC Golden Anniversary Award winners
Every year since 1981 (plus 1977 & 1978), the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has honored one coach with the NABC Golden Anniversary Award, recognizing their lifetime contributions to the game of basketball. The award is named after the “golden anniversary,” honoring coaches who have devoted at least 50 years to the sport.
| Year |
Coach |
School(s) |
| 1977 |
Eddie Hickey |
Creighton, Saint Louis, Marquette |
| 1978 |
Glen Rose |
Arkansas |
| 1981 |
Harry Litwack |
Temple |
| 1982 |
Jack Gardner |
Kansas State, Utah |
| 1983 |
Ozzie Cowles |
Carleton, River Falls State, Dartmouth, Michigan, Minnesota |
| 1984 |
John Wooden |
Indiana State, UCLA |
| 1985 |
Everett Dean |
Carleton, Indiana, Stanford |
| 1986 |
Tony Hinkle |
Butler |
| 1987 |
Howard Hobson |
Southern Oregon, Oregon, Yale |
| 1988 |
Henry Iba |
NW Missouri State, Colorado, Oklahoma State |
| 1989 |
Frank McGuire |
St. John’s, North Carolina, South Carolina |
| 1990 |
Stan Watts |
BYU |
| 1991 |
Pete Newell |
San Francisco, Michigan State, California |
| 1992 |
Ray Meyer |
DePaul |
| 1993 |
Clarence Gaines |
Winston-Salem State |
| 1994 |
Ben Carnevale |
North Carolina, Navy |
| 1995 |
Marv Harshman |
Pacific Lutheran, Washington State, Washington |
| 1996 |
Ray Mears |
Wittenberg, Tennessee |
| 1997 |
Ralph Miller |
Wichita State, Iowa, Oregon State |
| 1998 |
Guy Lewis |
Houston |
| 1999 |
Tex Winter |
Marquette, Kansas St, Washington, Northwestern, Long Beach St |
| 2000 |
Johnny Orr |
UMass, Michigan, Iowa State |
| 2001 |
Jud Heathcote |
Montana, Michigan State |
| 2002 |
Abe Lemons |
Oklahoma City, Texas-Pan American, Texas |
| 2003 |
Lefty Driesell |
Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, Georgia State |
| 2004 |
Don Haskins |
UTEP |
| 2005 |
Joe Vancisin |
Yale, NABC |
| 2006 |
Jim Phelan |
Mount St. Mary’s |
| 2007 |
John Chaney |
Cheyney State,Temple |
| 2008 |
Lou Henson |
Hardin-Simmons, New Mexico State, Illinois |
| 2009 |
Dale Brown |
LSU |
| 2010 |
Gene Keady |
Western Kentucky, Purdue |
| 2011 |
Norm Stewart |
Northern Iowa, Missouri |
| 2012 |
Rollie Massimino |
Stony Brook, Villanova, UNLV, Cleveland State, Northwood |
| 2013 |
Denny Crum |
Louisville |
| 2014 |
Glenn Wilkes |
Stetson |
| 2015 |
Lonnie Porter |
Regis |
| 2016 |
Billy Tubbs |
Lamar, Oklahoma, TCU |
| 2017 |
Lute Olson |
Long Beach State, Iowa, Arizona |
| 2018 |
Homer Drew |
Bethel, Indiana-South Bend, Valparaiso |
| 2019 |
Harry Statham |
McKendree |
| 2020 |
none |
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| 2021 |
Herb Magee |
Philadelphia Textile / Philadelphia / Jefferson |
| 2022 |
Glenn Robinson |
Franklin & Marshall |
| 2023 |
Tom Klusman |
Rollins (FL) |
| 2024 |
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