Hugh Durham Award

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Hugh Durham Award
Awarded forthe nation's top mid-major men's head coach in NCAA Division I basketball
CountryUnited States
Presented by Collegeinsider.com
History
First award2005
Most recent Josh Schertz, Indiana State
Website www.hughdurhamaward.com

The Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award (formerly called the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award from 2005 to 2009) is an award given annually to the most outstanding mid-major men's college basketball head coach in NCAA Division I competition. The award was established in 2005 and was renamed for head coach Hugh Durham, who coached at Florida State, Georgia and Jacksonville. [1] Among his many accomplishments, Durham is the only person to be the all-time winningest coach for three separate NCAA basketball programs. [1]

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Selection

The Hugh Durham Award is voted on by 20 members who are on a panel consisting of former and current head coaches. Durham himself is the chairman, and the award is presented at the Final Four to the top mid-major men's basketball coach.

Definitions of the term "mid-major" in the context of college basketball vary widely. For purposes of its "mid-major" awards and honors—the Durham Award for coaches and the Lou Henson Award and Lou Henson All-America Team for players—CollegeInsider.com has established its own definition of the term, which includes the following conferences, as well as any basketball independents.

Of these conferences, the only ones that sponsor FBS football are the MAC and the Sun Belt. All other FBS conferences, as well as the Atlantic 10 Conference (which has not sponsored football at all since 2006), have been excluded from the Collegeinsider.com list of "mid-majors" throughout the award's history. [2] Following major conference realignment that peaked in 2013, the WAC, which dropped football after the 2012 season, was added to the eligible list, while both offshoots of the original Big East Conference—the FBS American Athletic Conference and the new non-football Big East—were excluded from eligibility

Winners

*Awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year the same season
Coach (X)Denotes the number of times the coach has been awarded the Hugh Durham Award
YearCoachSchoolRecordReference
2004–05 Bob Thomason Pacific 27–4 [3]
2005–06 Pat Flannery Bucknell 27–5 [4]
2006–07 Gregg Marshall Winthrop 29–5 [3] [5]
2007–08 Keno Davis Drake 28–5 [6]
2008–09 Todd Bozeman Morgan State 23–12 [7]
2009–10 Mike Young Wofford 26–9 [8]
2010–11 Rick Byrd Belmont 30–5 [9]
2011–12 Eddie Payne USC Upstate 21–13 [10]
2012–13 Danny Kaspar Stephen F. Austin 27–5 [11]
2013–14 Tony Jasick IPFW 25–11 [12]
2014–15 Brian Katz Sacramento State 21–12 [13]
2015–16 James Jones Yale 23–7 [14]
2016–17 Rod Barnes Cal State Bakersfield 25–10 [15]
2017–18 Ryan Odom UMBC 25–11 [16]
2018–19 Darian DeVries Drake 24–10 [17]
2019–20 Steve Forbes East Tennessee State 30–4 [18]
2020–21 Byron Smith Prairie View A&M 16–4 [19]
2021–22 Robert Jones Norfolk State 24–7 [20]
2022–23 Amir Abdur-Rahim Kennesaw State 26–9 [21]
2023–24 Josh Schertz Indiana State 32–6

Winners by school

SchoolWinnersYears
Drake 22008, 2019
Belmont 12011
Bucknell 12006
Cal State Bakersfield 12017
East Tennessee State 12020
Indiana State 12024
IPFW 12014
Kennesaw State 12023
Morgan State 12009
Norfolk State 12022
Pacific 12005
Prairie View A&M 12021
Sacramento State 12015
Stephen F. Austin 12013
UMBC 12018
USC Upstate 12012
Winthrop 12007
Wofford 12010
Yale 12016

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References

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  1. 1 2 "CollegeInsider.com Announces Creation of the Hugh Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com. April 5, 2005.
  2. ↑ "CollegeInsider.com establishes the Lou Henson National Player of the Year Award" (Press release). CollegeInsider.com. January 27, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011. Note that this source lists the conferences whose players are eligible for the award.
  3. 1 2 "Winthrop Coach Receives Top Mid-Major Coaching Award From CollegeInsider.com". Press release. Winthrop University. 2007. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "Flannery Receives 2006 Hugh Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com. 5 April 2006. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "Winthrop's Gregg Marshall Receives 2007 Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com. 30 March 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  6. ↑ "Drake's Keno Davis Receives 2008 Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com. 4 April 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "Morgan State's Todd Bozeman Receives 2009 Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Staff (2 April 2010). "Wofford's Young named Mid-Major Coach of the Year". Spartanburg Herald Journal. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  9. ↑ Staff (1 April 2011). "Rick Byrd Named 2011 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year". Belmont University. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  10. ↑ "USC Upstate's Payne Claims 2012 Hugh Durham Award" (Press release). Atlantic Sun Conference. March 30, 2012. Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Danny Kaspar Wins 2013 Hugh Durham Award" (Press release). Texas State University. April 5, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
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  13. ↑ "BRIAN KATZ NAMED THE NATIONAL MID-MAJOR COACH OF THE YEAR" (Press release). hornetsports.com. April 3, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
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  15. ↑ "CSUB's Barnes Named Hugh Durham Mid-Major Coach of the Year" (Press release). wacsports.com. April 3, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2017.
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  18. ↑ "Forbes named Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year" (Press release). etsubucs.com. March 23, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Prairie View A&M's Byron Smith is the Recipient of the 2021 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award" (PDF) (Press release). College Insider. April 1, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  20. ↑ "2021: Byron Smith, Prairie View A&M".
  21. ↑ "Kennesaw State's Amir Abdur-Rahim is the recipient of the 2023 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year award".
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