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.

The Sporting News College Basketball Coach of the Year

Awarded for	the most outstanding NCAA Division I men's basketball head coach
Country	United States
Presented by	The Sporting News magazine
History
First award	1964
Most recent	Kelvin Sampson, Houston

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

Four-time honoree, John Wooden, ca. 1972.

Two-time honoree Adolph Rupp in 1954.

Two-time honoree Denny Crum in 2011.

Two-time honoree Rick Pitino in 2013.

Two-time honoree John Calipari in 2014.

Two-time honoree Tubby Smith in 2014.

Three-time honoree Bill Self in 2016.

Ed Cooley won the award in 2022.

Season	Coach	School
1963–64	John Wooden	UCLA
1964–65	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
	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[1]	Michigan
2021–22	Ed Cooley	Providence
2022–23	Rodney Terry	Texas
2023–24	Dan Hurley[2]	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