Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year

The Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is an annual basketball award given to the Missouri Valley Conference's most outstanding coach. The award was first given following the 1948–49 season.

Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year
Given for	the most outstanding basketball coach in the Missouri Valley Conference
Country	United States
History
First award	1949
Most recent	Ben Jacobson, Northern Iowa

As of 2017, among current members, Bradley and Drake are tied for the most all–time winners with eight. 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 times—Maury John of Drake in 1968–1970 and Gregg Marshall of Wichita State in 2012–2014.[1] Every current MVC member has had at least one winner except for Valparaiso, which played its first conference season in 2017–18.

Key

†	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

Winners

Season	Coach	School
1948–49	Henry Iba	Oklahoma A&M
1949–50	Forddy Anderson	Bradley
1950–51	Henry Iba (2)	Oklahoma A&M
1951–52	Eddie Hickey	Saint Louis
1952–53	Henry Iba (3)	Oklahoma A&M
1953–54	Ralph Miller	Wichita State
1954–55	Clarence Iba	Tulsa
1955–56	Alden Pasche	Houston
1956–57	Eddie Hickey (2)	Saint Louis
1957–58	George Smith	Cincinnati
1958–59	George Smith (2)	Cincinnati
1959–60	Chuck Orsborn	Bradley
1960–61	Ed Jucker	Cincinnati
1961–62	Chuck Orsborn (2)	Bradley
1962–63	Ed Jucker (2)	Cincinnati
1963–64	Maury John	Drake
1964–65	Gary Thompson	Wichita State
1965–66	Tay Baker	Cincinnati
1966–67	Joe Swank	Tulsa
1967–68	Maury John (2)	Drake
1968–69	Ken Hayes	Tulsa
1968–69	Maury John (3)	Drake
1969–70	Maury John (4)	Drake
1970–71	Bob Polk	Saint Louis
1971–72	Gene Bartow	Memphis State
1972–73	Ken Hayes (2)	Tulsa
1972–73	Denny Crum	Louisville
1973–74	Joe Stowell	Bradley
1974–75	Lou Henson	New Mexico State
1975–76	Ron Ekker	West Texas State
1976–77	Ken Hayes (3)	New Mexico State
1977–78	Tom Apke	Creighton
1978–79	Bill Hodges	Indiana State
1979–80	Dick Versace	Bradley
1980–81	Nolan Richardson	Tulsa
1981–82	Gary Garner	Drake
1982–83	Weldon Drew	New Mexico State
1983–84	Bob Donewald	Illinois State
1984–85	Nolan Richardson (2)	Tulsa
1985–86	Dick Versace (2)	Bradley
1986–87	J. D. Barnett	Tulsa
1986–87	Eddie Fogler	Wichita State
1987–88	Stan Albeck	Bradley
1988–89	Tony Barone	Creighton
1989–90	Rich Herrin	Southern Illinois
1990–91	Tates Locke	Indiana State
1991–92	Bob Bender	Illinois State
1992–93	Rudy Washington	Drake
1993–94	Tubby Smith	Tulsa
1994–95	Tubby Smith (2)	Tulsa
1995–96	Jim Molinari	Bradley
1996–97	Eldon Miller	Northern Iowa
1997–98	Kevin Stallings	Illinois State
1998–99	Jim Crews	Evansville
1999–00	Royce Waltman	Indiana State
2000–01	Dana Altman	Creighton
2001–02	Dana Altman (2)	Creighton
2002–03	Bruce Weber	Southern Illinois
2003–04	Matt Painter	Southern Illinois
2004–05	Chris Lowery	Southern Illinois
2005–06	Mark Turgeon	Wichita State
2006–07	Chris Lowery (2)	Southern Illinois
2007–08	Keno Davis	Drake
2008–09	Ben Jacobson	Northern Iowa
2009–10	Ben Jacobson (2)	Northern Iowa
2010–11	Cuonzo Martin	Missouri State
2011–12	Gregg Marshall	Wichita State
2012–13	Gregg Marshall (2)	Wichita State
2013–14	Gregg Marshall (3)	Wichita State
2014–15	Ben Jacobson (3)	Northern Iowa
2015–16	Barry Hinson[2]	Southern Illinois
2016–17	Dan Muller[3]	Illinois State
2017–18	Porter Moser[4]	Loyola
2018–19	Darian DeVries[5]	Drake
2019–20	Ben Jacobson (4)[6]	Northern Iowa

Winners by current member schools

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Bradley (1948/1955)	8	1950, 1960, 1962, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1996
Drake (1907/1956)	8	1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1982, 1993, 2008, 2019
Southern Illinois (1975)	6	1990, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2016
Northern Iowa (1991)	5	1997, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2020
Illinois State (1981)	4	1984, 1992, 1998, 2017
Indiana State (1977)	3	1979, 1991, 2000
Evansville (1994)	1	1999
Loyola (2013)	1	2018
Missouri State (1990)	1	2011
Valparaiso (2017)	0	—

Footnotes

• ^a Oklahoma A&M University, now Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, left in 1956.
• ^b Bradley University and Drake University left the MVC during the 1951–52 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 returned to the conference in 1955, with Drake doing the same a year later.
• ^c Saint Louis University left in 1974.
• ^d The University of Tulsa left in 1996.
• ^e The University of Houston left in 1959.
• ^f The University of Cincinnati left in 1970.
• ^g Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, left in 1973.
• ^h The University of Louisville left in 1975.
• ⁱ New Mexico State University left in 1983.
• ^j West Texas State University, now West Texas A&M University, left in 1985.
• ^k Creighton University left in 2013.
• ^l Wichita State University left in 2017.

References

• "MVC Men's Basketball Media Guide". Awards (p. 191). Missouri Valley Conference. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.

1. "Marshall Named Top MVC Coach, Again" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
2. "Hinson Named MVC Coach of the Year" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
3. "Muller Earns MVC Coach of the Year Honor" (Press release). MIssouri Valley Conference. March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
4. "Loyola's Porter Moser earns MVC Coach of the Year honor" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 1, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
5. "Drake's Darian DeVries is Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 7, 2019. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
6. "UNI's Ben Jacobson Earns MVC's Top Coaching Honor" (Press release). Missouri Valley Conference. March 5, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2020.