List of The Legends of Coaching Award winners

Every year since 1999, the John R. Wooden Award Committee has honored one coach with The John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award, recognizing his or her lifetime achievements in college basketball. The award is named after John Wooden, the Hall of Fame head coach of the UCLA Bruins who won a record ten NCAA National Championships. The Committee has also selected coaches from women’s college basketball, starting with Tennessee‘s Pat Summitt in 2008. When selecting a coach, the Committee “considers a coach’s character, success rate on the court, graduating rate of student athletes, coaching philosophy and identification with the goals of the John R. Wooden Award.”

Year	Coach	School
1999	Dean Smith	North Carolina
2000	Mike Krzyzewski	Duke
2001	Lute Olson	Arizona, Iowa, Long Beach State
2002	Denny Crum	Louisville
2003	Roy Williams	Kansas
2004	Mike Montgomery	Stanford, Montana
2005	Jim Calhoun	Connecticut, Northeastern
2006	Jim Boeheim	Syracuse
2007	Gene Keady	Purdue, Western Kentucky
2008	Pat Summitt	Tennessee (women’s)
2009	Rick Barnes	Texas, Clemson, Providence, George Mason
2010	Billy Donovan	Florida, Marshall
2011	Tom Izzo	Michigan State
2012	Geno Auriemma	Connecticut (women’s)
2013	Bill Self	Kansas, Illinois, Tulsa
2014	Tara VanDerveer	Stanford, Ohio State, Idaho (women’s)
2015	Steve Fisher	San Diego State, Michigan
2016	Tubby Smith	Texas Tech, Minnesota, Kentucky, Georgia, Tulsa
2017	Muffett McGraw	Notre Dame, Lehigh (women’s)
2018	Jay Wright	Villanova, Hofstra
2019	Lon Kruger	Oklahoma, UNLV, Illinois, Florida, Kansas St, UTPA
2020	C. Vivian Stringer	Rutgers (women’s)
2021	Dave Yanai	Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Los Angeles
2022	Rick Byrd	Belmont, Lincoln Memorial, Maryville
2023	Dawn Staley	South Carolina (women’s), Temple (women’s)
2024	John Calipari	Kentucky, Memphis, UMass
2025

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