List of UPI Coach of the Year winners

Every year from 1955 to 1996, the UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year award was given to the most outstanding men’s Division I college basketball coach of the season. The award was presented by United Press International (UPI), a news agency that in 1999 sold all of its broadcast clients to rival Associated Press (AP). John Wooden won the most UPI Coach of the Year honors with six, followed by six other coaches who won the award twice each.

Year	Coach	School
1955	Phil Woolpert	San Francisco
1956	Phil Woolpert (2)	San Francisco (2)
1957	Frank McGuire	North Carolina
1958	Tex Winter	Kansas State
1959	Adolph Rupp	Kentucky
1960	Pete Newell	California
1961	Fred Taylor	Ohio State
1962	Fred Taylor (2)	Ohio State (2)
1963	Ed Jucker	Cincinnati
1964	John Wooden	UCLA
1965	Dave Strack	Michigan
1966	Adolph Rupp (2)	Kentucky (2)
1967	John Wooden (2)	UCLA (2)
1968	Guy Lewis	Houston
1969	John Wooden (3)	UCLA (3)
1970	John Wooden (4)	UCLA (4)
1971	Al McGuire	Marquette
1972	John Wooden (5)	UCLA (5)
1973	John Wooden (6)	UCLA (6)
1974	Digger Phelps	Notre Dame
1975	Bob Knight	Indiana
1976	Tom Young	Rutgers
1977	Bob Gaillard	San Francisco (3)
1978	Eddie Sutton	Arkansas
1979	Bill Hodges	Indiana State
1980	Ray Meyer	DePaul
1981	Ralph Miller	Oregon State
1982	Norm Stewart	Missouri
1983	Jerry Tarkanian	UNLV
1984	Ray Meyer (2)	DePaul (2)
1985	Lou Carnesecca	St. John’s
1986	Mike Krzyzewski	Duke
1987	John Thompson	Georgetown
1988	John Chaney	Temple
1989	Bob Knight (2)	Indiana (2)
1990	Jim Calhoun	Connecticut
1991	Rick Majerus	Utah
1992	Perry Clark	Tulane
1993	Eddie Fogler	Vanderbilt
1994	Norm Stewart (2)	Missouri (2)
1995	Leonard Hamilton	Miami (FL)
1996	Gene Keady	Purdue

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