Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball Coach of the Year

The Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball Coach of the Year is a basketball award given to head coaches in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The award is granted to the head coach voted to be the most successful that season by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association,^[1] and since the 2012–13 season has also been awarded in separate voting by the league's coaches.^[2] The award was first given following the 1953–54 season, the first year of the conference's existence,^[3] to Everett Case of NC State. The first winner of the coaches' award was Jim Larrañaga of Miami (FL)^a in 2013.^[2]

ACC men's basketball Coach of the Year

Awarded for	the most outstanding men's basketball head coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference
Country	United States
Presented by	Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (1954–present) ACC head coaches (2013–present)
History
First award	1954
Most recent	Pat Kelsey, Louisville

Dean Smith of North Carolina has won the most awards with eight, followed by Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, with five, and Tony Bennett of Virginia, with four. Fourteen coaches in total have won the award more than once. Fourteen coaches have also won the award in the same season that they have also won a National Coach of the Year award; of those, only Krzyzewski and Smith have achieved the feat three times. Five coaches have won during the same season that they have coached a team that won the NCAA Tournament Championship: Tony Bennett, Frank McGuire, Norm Sloan, Dean Smith, and Gary Williams. McGuire is the only head coach to win the award at two different schools (North Carolina and South Carolina).

Each of the original (1953) ACC members have had at least one of their coaches win the award. Among schools that joined the ACC before 2013, Boston College is the only one that has never had a winning coach. Thirty-one different coaches from twelve schools have received the award. North Carolina has the most ACC Coach of the Year awards with twelve, while its in-state rival, Duke, is second with ten. Each school of Tobacco Road (including NC State and Wake Forest) has won at least seven awards, as has Virginia with eight.

Key

	Awarded one of the following National Coach of the Year awards that year: Associated Press Coach of the Year (AP) Adolph Rupp Cup (ARC) Basketball Times Coach of the Year (BT) CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year (CBS) Naismith Coach of the Year (N) NABC Coach of the Year (NABC) Sporting News Coach of the Year (SN) United Press International Coach of the Year (UPI) U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)
Coach (X)	Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point
*	Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach but is no longer active
*^	Active coach who has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (as a coach)
Conf. W–L	Conference win–loss record for that season
Conf. St.T	Conference standing at year's end (Tdenotes a tie)
Overall W–L	Overall win–loss record for that season
Season‡	Team won the NCAA Division I National Championship

Winners

Dean Smith holds the record for most ACC Coach of the Year Awards with eight.

Duke head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, is second all-time in ACC Coach of the Year Awards with five.

Tony Bennett of Virginia won the award four times in a six-year span.

Bobby Cremins won the award three times as the head coach of Georgia Tech.

Between 1991 and 1995, Dave Odom of Wake Forest was named the Coach of the Year on three occasions.

Season	Coach	School	National Coach of the Year Awards	Conf. W–L	Conf. St.	Overall W–L	Source(s)
1953–54	Everett Case*	NC State	—	5–3	4	26–7	[4][5]
1954–55	Everett Case* (2)	NC State	—	12–2	1	28–4	[4][5]
1955–56	Murray Greason	Wake Forest	—	10–4	3T	19–9	[4]
1956–57‡	Frank McGuire*	North Carolina	UPI[6]	14–0	1	32–0	[4]
1957–58	Everett Case* (3)	NC State	—	10–4	3	18–6	[4][5]
1958–59	Harold Bradley	Duke	—	7–7	3T	13–12	[4]
1959–60	Bones McKinney	Wake Forest	—	12–2	2T	21–7	[4]
1960–61	Bones McKinney (2)	Wake Forest	—	11–3	2	19–11	[4]
1961–62	Bob Stevens	South Carolina	—	7–7	4	15–12	[4]
1962–63	Vic Bubas	Duke	—	14–0	1	27–3	[4][7]
1963–64	Vic Bubas (2)	Duke	—	13–1	1	26–5	[4][7]
1964–65	Press Maravich	NC State	—	10–4	2	21–5	[4]
1965–66	Vic Bubas (3)	Duke	—	10–4	1	21–5	[4][7]
1966–67	Dean Smith*	North Carolina	—	12–2	1	26–6	[4][8]
1967–68	Dean Smith* (2)	North Carolina	—	12–2	1	28–4	[4][8]
1968–69	Frank McGuire* (2)	South Carolina	—	11–3	2	21–7	[4]
1969–70	Norm Sloan	NC State	—	9–5	3	23–7	[4]
1970–71	Dean Smith* (3)	North Carolina	—	11–3	1	26–6	[4][8]
1971–72	Bill Gibson	Virginia	—	8–4	3	21–7	[4][9]
1972–73	Norm Sloan (2)	NC State	—	12–0	1	27–0[b]	[4]
1973–74‡	Norm Sloan (3)	NC State	AP[6] USBWA[6]	12–0	1	30–1	[4]
1974–75	Lefty Driesell*	Maryland	—	10–2	1	24–5	[4]
1975–76	Dean Smith* (4)	North Carolina	—	11–1	1	25–4	[4][8]
1976–77	Dean Smith* (5)	North Carolina	NABC[6]	9–3	1	28–5	[4][8]
1977–78	Bill Foster	Duke	NABC[6] SN[6]	8–4	2	27–7	[4]
1978–79	Dean Smith* (6)	North Carolina	USBWA[6]	9–3	2	23–6	[4][8]
1979–80	Lefty Driesell* (2)	Maryland	—	11–3	1	24–7	[4]
1980–81	Terry Holland	Virginia	—	13–1	1	29–4	[4][9]
1981–82	Terry Holland (2)	Virginia	—	12–2	2	30–4	[4][9]
1982–83	Bobby Cremins	Georgia Tech	—	4–10	6	13–15	[4]
1983–84	Mike Krzyzewski*	Duke	—	7–7	3T	24–10	[4][10]
1984–85	Bobby Cremins (2)	Georgia Tech	BT[6]	9–5	1T	27–8	[4]
1985–86	Mike Krzyzewski* (2)	Duke	BT[6] CBS[6] UPI[6]	12–2	1	37–3	[4][10]
1986–87	Cliff Ellis	Clemson	—	10–4	1	25–6	[4]
1987–88	Dean Smith* (7)	North Carolina	—	11–3	1	27–7	[4][8]
1988–89	Jim Valvano	NC State	—	9–5	4	29–8	[4]
1989–90	Cliff Ellis (2)	Clemson	—	10–4	1	26–9	[4]
1990–91	Dave Odom	Wake Forest	—	8–6	3T	19–11	[4]
1991–92	Pat Kennedy	Florida State	—	11–5	2	22–10	[4]
1992–93‡	Dean Smith* (8)	North Carolina	BT[6] N[6]	14–2	1	34–4	[4][8]
1993–94	Dave Odom (2)	Wake Forest	—	9–7	3	21–12	[4]
1994–95	Dave Odom (3)	Wake Forest	—	12–4	1T	26–6	[4]
1995–96	Bobby Cremins (3)	Georgia Tech	—	13–3	1	24–12	[4]
1996–97	Mike Krzyzewski* (3)	Duke	BT[6]	12–4	1	24–9	[4][10]
1997–98	Bill Guthridge	North Carolina	CBS[6] N[6] NABC[6] SN[6]	13–3	2	34–4	[4]
1998–99	Mike Krzyzewski* (4)	Duke	N[6] NABC[6]	16–0	1	37–2	[4][10]
1999–00	Mike Krzyzewski* (5)	Duke	—	15–1	1	29–5	[4][10]
2000–01	Paul Hewitt	Georgia Tech	—	8–8	5T	17–13	[4]
2001–02‡	Gary Williams*	Maryland	—	15–1	1	32–4	[4]
2002–03	Skip Prosser	Wake Forest	—	13–3	1	25–6	[4][11]
2003–04	Herb Sendek	NC State	—	11–5	2	21–10	[4]
2004–05	Seth Greenberg	Virginia Tech	—	8–8	4T	16–14	[4][12]
2005–06	Roy Williams*	North Carolina	AP[6] ARC[6] USBWA[6]	12–4	2	23–8	[13]
2006–07	Dave Leitao	Virginia	—	11–5	1T	21–11	[9][14]
2007–08	Seth Greenberg (2)	Virginia Tech	—	9–7	4	21–14	[12]
2008–09	Leonard Hamilton	Florida State	BT[6]	10–6	4	25–10	[15]
2009–10	Gary Williams* (2)	Maryland	—	13–3	1T	24–9	[16]
2010–11	Roy Williams* (2)	North Carolina	—	14–2	1	29–8	[17]
2011–12	Leonard Hamilton (2)	Florida State	—	12–4	3	21–9	[18]
2012–13	Jim Larrañaga	Miami (FL)	AP[19] N[20] USBWA[21]	15–3	1	29–7	[2][22]
2013–14	Tony Bennett	Virginia	—	16–2	1	30–7	[23]
2014–15	Tony Bennett (2)	Virginia	USBWA	16–2	1	30–4	[24][25]
2015–16	Jim Larrañaga (2)	Miami (FL)	—	13–5	2T	25–7	[26]
2016–17	Josh Pastner	Georgia Tech	—	8-10	11	21–16
2017–18	Tony Bennett (3)	Virginia	AP N NABC USBWA	17–1	1	31–3	[27]
2018–19‡	Tony Bennett (4)	Virginia	—	16–2	1T	35–3	[28]
2019–20	Leonard Hamilton (3)	Florida State	—	16–4	1	26–5	[29]
2020–21	Mike Young	Virginia Tech	—	9–4	3	15–5	[30]
2021–22	Steve Forbes	Wake Forest	—	13–7	5	25–10	[31]
2022–23	Jeff Capel	Pittsburgh	—	14–6	5	24–12	[32]
2023–24	Hubert Davis	North Carolina	—	17–3	1	29–9	[33]
2024–25	Pat Kelsey	Louisville		18–2	2T		[34]

Winners by school

School (year joined)[3]	Winners	Years
North Carolina (1953)	13	1957, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2011, 2024
Duke (1953)	10	1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1997, 1999, 2000
NC State (1953)	9	1954, 1955, 1958, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1989, 2004
Virginia (1953)	8	1972, 1981, 1982, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019
Wake Forest (1953)	8	1956, 1960, 1961, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2003, 2022
Georgia Tech (1978)	5	1983, 1985, 1996, 2001, 2017
Florida State (1991)	4	1992, 2009, 2012, 2020
Maryland (1953)[c]	4	1975, 1980, 2002, 2010
Virginia Tech (2004)	3	2005, 2008, 2021
Clemson (1953)	2	1987, 1990
South Carolina (1953)[d]	2	1962, 1969
Miami (FL) (2004)	2	2013, 2016
Louisville (2014)	1	2025
Pittsburgh (2013)	1	2023
Boston College (2005)	0	—
Notre Dame (2013)	0	—
Syracuse (2013)	0	—

See also

• Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
• List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Footnotes

• ^a The annotation "Miami (FL)" is used to signify that the school is the University of Miami, which is located in Coral Gables, Florida. There is another similarly–named school in the United States called Miami University, which is located in Oxford, Ohio. When these schools' athletic programs are referenced, they are usually demarcated with either "(FL)" or "(OH)" for disambiguation purposes.^[35][36]
• ^b The 1972–73 NC State Wolfpack team was forced to skip postseason play due to an NCAA recruiting infraction.^[37] Assistant coach Eddie Biedenbach had played in a pick-up (impromptu) basketball game with David Thompson on a recruiting visit to Raleigh, North Carolina.^[37] The Wolfpack finished the season undefeated at 27–0 but were never given the opportunity to compete for the national championship.^[37]
• ^c The University of Maryland, College Park left the ACC for the Big Ten Conference in 2014.^[38]
• ^d The University of South Carolina left the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1971, and is now a member of the Southeastern Conference.^[3][39]