NABC NAIA Coach of the Year
List of NABC NAIA Coach of the Year winners
Starting in 1993 (except for 2005), the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has awarded the NABC NAIA Coach of the Year Award to recognize the best men’s college basketball coach of the season in NAIA competition. From 2009 through 2020, the NABC honored two separate winners from NABC Divisions I and II, but starting back up again in 2021 there is just one winner. For those years with two winners, the Division I winner is listed first. Indiana Wesleyan’s Greg Tonagel and Cornerstone’s Kim Elders are the only two coaches to win the award three times, while several others have won it twice.
See also: NABC Division I Coach of the Year | NABC Division II Coach of the Year | NABC Division III Coach of the Year
| Year | Coach | School |
| 1993 | Gerald Stockton | Midwestern State |
| 1994 | Jim Reid | Georgetown (KY) |
| 1995 | Duane Reboul | Birmingham Southern |
| 1996 | Larry Holley | William Jewell |
| 1997 | Roger Kaiser | Life |
| 1998 | Bobby Martin | Southern Nazarene |
| 1999 | Kim Elders | Cornerstone |
| 2000 | Roger Kaiser (2) | Life (2) |
| 2001 | Don Lane | Transylvania |
| 2002 | Harry Statham | McKendree |
| 2003 | Ken Amman | Concordia |
| 2004 | Bob Bolen | Mountain State |
| 2005 | none | |
| 2006 | Terry Waldrop | Texas Wesleyan |
| 2007 | Rocky Lamar | Mid-America Nazarene |
| 2008 | Ray Harper | Oklahoma City |
| 2009 | Ralph Turner | Union (TN) |
| Donnie Bostwick | Oklahoma Wesleyan | |
| 2010 | Bob Bolen | Mountain State (2) |
| Donnie Bostwick (2) | Oklahoma Wesleyan (2) | |
| 2011 | Al Bruehl | Robert Morris (IL) |
| Rollie Massimino | Northwood | |
| 2012 | Chad Warner | Shorter |
| Danny Miles | Oregon Tech | |
| 2013 | Bob Burchard | Columbia College |
| Drew Deiner | Cardinal Stritch | |
| 2014 | Steve Knight | William Carey |
| Greg Tonagel | Indiana Wesleyan | |
| 2015 | Keith Adkins | Campbellsville |
| Kim Elders (2) | Cornerstone (2) | |
| 2016 | Dave Holmquist | Biola |
| Greg Tonagel (2) | Indiana Wesleyan (2) | |
| 2017 | Larry Cordaro | LSU-Alexandria |
| Kim Elders (3) | Cornerstone (3) | |
| 2018 | Kelvin Starr | The Master’s |
| Greg Tonagel (3) | Indiana Wesleyan (3) | |
| 2019 | Ryan Moody | Benedictine |
| Ryan Cottingham | Spring Arbor | |
| 2020 | Austin Johnson | Lewis-Clark State |
| Mike McBride | Holy Cross (IN) | |
| 2021 | Austin Johnson (2) | Lewis-Clark State (2) |
| 2022 | Stacy Hollowell | Loyola (LA) |
| 2023 | Colby Blaine | College of Idaho |
| 2024 | Scott Moore | Grace College |
| 2025 | ||
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