List of Sporting News Coach of the Year winners

Beginning in 1964, Sporting News Magazine has awarded the Sporting News Men’s College Basketball Coach of the Year Award (or simply Sporting News Coach of the Year Award) to the top Division I men’s college basketball coach of the season. The coach to win the award the most times is UCLA legend John Wooden (four), followed by Bill Self (three) and four others with two each. Kentucky is the program with the most wins (five), followed by UCLA (four) and Kansas (three). See also: Sporting News Player of the Year

Year	Player	School
1964	John Wooden	UCLA
1965	none	none
1966	Adolph Rupp	Kentucky
1967	Jack Hartman	Southern Illinois
1968	Guy Lewis	Houston
1969	John Wooden (2)	UCLA (2)
1970	Adolph Rupp (2)	Kentucky (2)
1971	Al McGuire	Marquette
1972	John Wooden (3)	UCLA (3)
1973	John Wooden (4)	UCLA (4)
1974	Digger Phelps	Notre Dame
1975	Bob Knight	Indiana
1976	Tom Young	Rutgers
1977	Lee Rose	Charlotte
1978	Bill E. Foster	Duke
1979	Bill Hodges	Indiana State
1980	Lute Olson	Iowa
1981	Dale Brown	LSU
1982	Ralph Miller	Oregon State
1983	Denny Crum	Louisville
1984	John Thompson	Georgetown
1985	Lou Carnesecca	St. John’s
1986	Denny Crum (2)	Louisville (2)
1987	Rick Pitino	Providence
1988	John Chaney	Temple
1989	P. J. Carlesimo	Seton Hall
1990	Jim Calhoun	Connecticut
1991	Rick Pitino (2)	Kentucky (3)
1992	Mike Krzyzewski	Duke (2)
1993	Eddie Fogler	Vanderbilt
1994	Norm Stewart	Missouri
1995	Jud Heathcote	Michigan State
1996	John Calipari	UMass
1997	Roy Williams	Kansas
1998	Bill Guthridge	North Carolina
1999	Cliff Ellis	Auburn
2000	Bob Huggins	Cincinnati
	Bill Self	Tulsa
2001	Al Skinner	Boston College
2002	Ben Howland	Pittsburgh
2003	Tubby Smith	Kentucky (4)
2004	Mike Montgomery	Stanford
2005	Bruce Weber	Illinois
2006	Bruce Pearl	Tennessee
2007	Tony Bennett	Washington State
2008	Keno Davis	Drake
2009	Bill Self (2)	Kansas (2)
2010	Jim Boeheim	Syracuse
2011	Jamie Dixon	Pittsburgh (2)
2012	Bill Self (3)	Kansas (3)
2013	Jim Crews	Saint Louis
2014	Gregg Marshall	Wichita State
2015	John Calipari (2)	Kentucky (5)
2016	Tubby Smith (2)	Texas Tech
2017	Mark Few	Gonzaga
2018	Mick Cronin	Cincinnati (2)
2019	Mike Young	Wofford
2020	Anthony Grant	Dayton
2021	Juwan Howard	Michigan
2022	Ed Cooley	Providence (2)
2023	Rodney Terry	Texas
2024	Dan Hurley	Connecticut (2)
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