List of Naismith Coach of the Year winners

Every year since 1987, the Atlanta Tipoff Club has presented the Naismith Coach of the Year Award to recognize the best men’s and best women’s college basketball coaches of the season. Since 1989, the Atlanta Tipoff Club has given out the award via a voting process (for the first two years, it was given to the head coaches of the men’s and women’s National Championship winning teams). The award is named after Dr. James Naismith, a College Basketball Hall of Fame head coach at Kansas who invented the game of basketball in 1891. Mike Krzyzewski and John Calipari have each won the award three times, while three others have won twice. See also: Naismith Player of the Year

Year	Men’s Winner	School
1987	Bob Knight	Indiana
1988	Larry Brown	Kansas
1989	Mike Krzyzewski	Duke
1990	Bobby Cremins	Georgia Tech
1991	Randy Ayers	Ohio State
1992	Mike Krzyzewski (2)	Duke (2)
1993	Dean Smith	North Carolina
1994	Nolan Richardson	Arkansas
1995	Jim Harrick	UCLA
1996	John Calipari	UMass
1997	Roy Williams	Kansas (2)
1998	Bill Guthridge	North Carolina (2)
1999	Mike Krzyzewski (3)	Duke (3)
2000	Mike Montgomery	Stanford
2001	Rod Barnes	Ole Miss
2002	Ben Howland	Pittsburgh
2003	Tubby Smith	Kentucky
2004	Phil Martelli	Saint Joseph’s
2005	Bruce Weber	Illinois
2006	Jay Wright	Villanova
2007	Tony Bennett	Washington State
2008	John Calipari (2)	Memphis
2009	Jamie Dixon	Pittsburgh (2)
2010	Jim Boeheim	Syracuse
2011	Steve Fisher	San Diego State
2012	Bill Self	Kansas (3)
2013	Jim Larrañaga	Miami (FL)
2014	Gregg Marshall	Wichita State
2015	John Calipari (3)	Kentucky (2)
2016	Jay Wright (2)	Villanova (2)
2017	Mark Few	Gonzaga
2018	Tony Bennett (2)	Virginia
2019	Rick Barnes	Tennessee
2020	Anthony Grant	Dayton
2021	Mark Few (2)	Gonzaga (2)
2022	Ed Cooley	Providence
2023	Jerome Tang	Kansas State
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