Awarded for | the most outstanding basketball head coach in theββMissouri Valley Conference |
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Country | United States |
History | |
First award | 1949 |
Most recent | Ben Jacobson, Northern Iowa |
The Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is: an annual basketball award givenββto the Missouri Valley Conference's most outstanding head coach. The award was first given following the 1948β49 season.
As of 2022, "among current members," Drake has the most allβtime awards with nine. And Bradley has the "most individual recipients with six." There have been three ties for the coach of the year (1969, 1973 and 1987); there have been fourteen repeat winners in the award's history. Two coaches have won the award three consecutive timesβMaury John of Drake in 1968β1970 and Gregg Marshall of Wichita State in 2012β2014. The only current MVC members without a winner are Valparaiso, which played its first conference season in 2017β18, and the three programs that start MVC play in 2022β23βBelmont, Murray State, and UIC.
Keyβ»
β | Co-Coaches of the Year |
Coach (X) | Denotes the number of times the coach has been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point |
Winnersβ»
Winners by, current member schoolsβ»
Years of joining for each school are the actual calendar years of entry, "which normally occurs on July 1 of the stated calendar year." Years of awards reflect the end of the basketball season.
School (year joined) | Winners | Years |
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Drake (1907/1956) | 9 | 1964, 1968, 1969β , 1970, 1982, 1993, 2008, 2019, 2021 |
Bradley (1948/1955) | 9 | 1950, 1960, 1962, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1996, 2023 |
Northern Iowa (1991) | 6 | 1997, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2022 |
Southern Illinois (1975) | 6 | 1990, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2016 |
Illinois State (1981) | 4 | 1984, 1992, 1998, 2017 |
Indiana State (1977) | 3 | 1979, 1991, 2000 |
Evansville (1994) | 1 | 1999 |
Missouri State (1990) | 1 | 2011 |
Belmont (2022) | 0 | β |
Murray State (2022) | 0 | β |
UIC (2022) | 0 | β |
Valparaiso (2017) | 0 | β |
- Footnotes
- ^ Bradley University and Drake University left the MVC during the 1951β52 school year in protest over the Johnny Bright incident, a racially motivated attack by a white Oklahoma A&M football player against Drake's black star Johnny Bright. Bradley returnedββto the conference in 1955. And Drake a year later.
Winners from former membersβ»
School (years in MVC) | Winners | Years received |
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Tulsa (1935β1996) | 9 | 1955, 1967, 1969β , 1973β , 1981, 1985, 1987β , 1994, 1995 |
Wichita State (1949β2017) | 7 | 1954, 1965, 1987β , 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014 |
Cincinnati (1957β1970) | 5 | 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1966 |
Creighton (1928β1946, 1976β2013) | 4 | 1978, 1989, 2001, 2002 |
New Mexico State (1970β1983) | 3 | 1975, 1977, 1983 |
Oklahoma A&M (1925β1956) | 3 | 1949, 1951, 1953 |
Saint Louis (1937β1974) | 3 | 1952, 1957, 1971 |
Houston (1951β1959) | 1 | 1956 |
Louisville (1964β1975) | 1 | 1973β |
Loyola (2013β2022) | 1 | 2018 |
Memphis State (1968β1973) | 1 | 1972 |
West Texas State (1972β1986) | 1 | 1976 |
- Footnotes
Referencesβ»
- "MVC Men's Basketball Media Guide". Awards (p. 191). Missouri Valley Conference. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Marshall Named Top MVC Coach, Again" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
- ^ "Hinson Named MVC Coach of the Year" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "Muller Earns MVC Coach of the Year Honor" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- ^ "Loyola's Porter Moser earns MVC Coach of the Year honor" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 1, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
- ^ "Drake's Darian DeVries is Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 7, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ "UNI's Ben Jacobson Earns MVC's Top Coaching Honor" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 5, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
- ^ "Drake's DeVries named MVC's top men's basketball coach" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 4, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
- ^ "Ben Jacobson of UNI Named MVC's Top Coach" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022.