Clarence Gaines Award
List of Clarence Gaines Award winners (Division II)
Every year since 2011, CollegeInsider.com has awarded the Clarence “Big House” Gaines Award to recognize the best men’s college basketball coach of the season in Division II (formerly the College Division). The award is named after the late Hall-of-Famer Clarence Gaines, who spent 47 years as the head coach at Winston-Salem State and won the D-II NCAA Championship in 1967. Former Northwest Missouri State head coach Ben McCollum is the only person to win the award more than once (2012, 2020 and 2022). Parenthesis indicate number of awards for that coach or school. See also: NABC Division II Coach of the Year
2011 — Steve Kinder, Humboldt State
2012 — Ben McCollum, Northwestern Missouri State
2013 — Tom Billeter, Augustana
2014 — Jeff Wilson, East Stroudsburg
2015 — Chad Walthall, Minnesota State-Moorhead
2016 — Josh Schertz, Lincoln Memorial
2017 — Darren Vorderbruegge, Hawaii Pacific
2018 — Grady Brewer, Morehouse
2019 — Andre Cook, St. Edward’s
2020 — Ben McCollum (2), Northwestern Missouri State (2)
2021 — Todd Duncan, Lubbock Christian
2022 — Ben McCollum (3), Northwestern Missouri State (3)
2023 — Jim Crutchfield, Nova Southeastern
2024 — Jordan Fee, Gannon
2025 — Mike MacDonald, Daemen
2026 — Bryan Rooney, Cal State East Bay
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