# The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year Award

The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year Award, often informally called "The Sporting News Coach of the Year Award," is an annual basketball award given to the best men's college basketball head coach in NCAA Division I competition. The award was first given in 1964 following the 1963–64 season and is presented by The Sporting News (formerly known as Sporting News from 2002 to 2022), a United States–based sports magazine that was established in 1886.
No award winner was selected in 1965.
John Wooden is the only person to receive the award four times. Bill Self has three awards, and John Calipari, Denny Crum, Rick Pitino, Adolph Rupp, and Tubby Smith have two each.
Four different Kentucky head coaches have combined to receive the award five times. Kentucky is also the only program with more than two individual recipients. UCLA has been honored four times, all during the Wooden era. Kansas coaches have three awards.

## Key

| Coach (X) | Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point if more than once |

## Winners

| Season | Coach | School |
| 1963–64 | John Wooden | UCLA |
| 1964–65 | No award | No award |
| 1965–66 | Adolph Rupp | Kentucky |
| 1966–67 | Jack Hartman | Southern Illinois |
| 1967–68 | Guy Lewis | Houston |
| 1968–69 | John Wooden (2) | UCLA |
| 1969–70 | Adolph Rupp (2) | Kentucky |
| 1970–71 | Al McGuire | Marquette |
| 1971–72 | John Wooden (3) | UCLA |
| 1972–73 | John Wooden (4) | UCLA |
| 1973–74 | Digger Phelps | Notre Dame |
| 1974–75 | Bob Knight | Indiana |
| 1975–76 | Tom Young | Rutgers |
| 1976–77 | Lee Rose | UNC Charlotte |
| 1977–78 | Bill E. Foster | Duke |
| 1978–79 | Bill Hodges | Indiana State |
| 1979–80 | Lute Olson | Iowa |
| 1980–81 | Dale Brown | LSU |
| 1981–82 | Ralph Miller | Oregon State |
| 1982–83 | Denny Crum | Louisville |
| 1983–84 | John Thompson Jr. | Georgetown |
| 1984–85 | Lou Carnesecca | St. John's |
| 1985–86 | Denny Crum (2) | Louisville |
| 1986–87 | Rick Pitino | Providence |
| 1987–88 | John Chaney | Temple |
| 1988–89 | P. J. Carlesimo | Seton Hall |
| 1989–90 | Jim Calhoun | Connecticut |
| 1990–91 | Rick Pitino (2) | Kentucky |
| 1991–92 | Mike Krzyzewski | Duke |
| 1992–93 | Eddie Fogler | Vanderbilt |
| 1993–94 | Norm Stewart | Missouri |
| 1994–95 | Jud Heathcote | Michigan State |
| 1995–96 | John Calipari | Massachusetts |
| 1996–97 | Roy Williams | Kansas |
| 1997–98 | Bill Guthridge | North Carolina |
| 1998–99 | Cliff Ellis | Auburn |
| 1999–2000 | Bob Huggins | Cincinnati |
| 1999–2000 | Bill Self | Tulsa |
| 2000–01 | Al Skinner | Boston College |
| 2001–02 | Ben Howland | Pittsburgh |
| 2002–03 | Tubby Smith | Kentucky |
| 2003–04 | Mike Montgomery | Stanford |
| 2004–05 | Bruce Weber | Illinois |
| 2005–06 | Bruce Pearl | Tennessee |
| 2006–07 | Tony Bennett | Washington State |
| 2007–08 | Keno Davis | Drake |
| 2008–09 | Bill Self (2) | Kansas |
| 2009–10 | Jim Boeheim | Syracuse |
| 2010–11 | Jamie Dixon | Pittsburgh |
| 2011–12 | Bill Self (3) | Kansas |
| 2012–13 | Jim Crews | Saint Louis |
| 2013–14 | Gregg Marshall | Wichita State |
| 2014–15 | John Calipari (2) | Kentucky |
| 2015–16 | Tubby Smith (2) | Texas Tech |
| 2016–17 | Mark Few | Gonzaga |
| 2017–18 | Mick Cronin | Cincinnati |
| 2018–19 | Mike Young | Wofford |
| 2019–20 | Anthony Grant | Dayton |
| 2020–21 | Juwan Howard | Michigan |
| 2021–22 | Ed Cooley | Providence |
| 2022–23 | Rodney Terry | Texas |
| 2023–24 | Dan Hurley | UConn |
| 2024–25 | Kelvin Sampson | Houston |

## Winners by school

Schools are listed here by their current athletic brand names, which do not necessarily match those used at the time an award was presented.
| School | Winners | Years |
| Kentucky | 5 | 1966, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2015 |
| UCLA | 4 | 1964, 1969, 1972, 1973 |
| Kansas | 3 | 1997, 2009, 2012 |
| Cincinnati | 2 | 2000, 2018 |
| Duke | 2 | 1978, 1992 |
| Houston | 2 | 1968, 2025 |
| Louisville | 2 | 1983, 1986 |
| Pittsburgh | 2 | 2002, 2011 |
| Providence | 2 | 1987, 2022 |
| UConn | 2 | 1990, 2024 |
| Auburn | 1 | 1999 |
| Boston College | 1 | 2001 |
| Charlotte | 1 | 1977 |
| Dayton | 1 | 2020 |
| Drake | 1 | 2008 |
| Georgetown | 1 | 1984 |
| Gonzaga | 1 | 2017 |
| Illinois | 1 | 2005 |
| Indiana | 1 | 1975 |
| Indiana State | 1 | 1979 |
| Iowa | 1 | 1980 |
| LSU | 1 | 1981 |
| Marquette | 1 | 1971 |
| Michigan | 1 | 2021 |
| Michigan State | 1 | 1995 |
| Missouri | 1 | 1994 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 1998 |
| Notre Dame | 1 | 1974 |
| Oregon State | 1 | 1982 |
| Rutgers | 1 | 1976 |
| St. John's | 1 | 1985 |
| Saint Louis | 1 | 2013 |
| Seton Hall | 1 | 1989 |
| Southern Illinois | 1 | 1967 |
| Stanford | 1 | 2004 |
| Syracuse | 1 | 2010 |
| Temple | 1 | 1988 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 2006 |
| Texas | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Tech | 1 | 2016 |
| Tulsa | 1 | 2000 |
| UMass | 1 | 1996 |
| Vanderbilt | 1 | 1993 |
| Washington State | 1 | 2007 |
| Wichita State | 1 | 2014 |
| Wofford | 1 | 2019 |

## Footnotes

* ↑ DeCourcy, Mike (March 9, 2021). "Michigan's Juwan Howard is Sporting News' 2020-21 Coach of the Year". Sporting News. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
* ↑ DeCourcy, Mike (March 14, 2023). "Sporting News' College Basketball Coach of the Year: UConn's Dan Hurley living up to his own standard". Sporting News. Retrieved March 15, 2024.