Hugh Durham Award
List of Hugh Durham Award winners
Every year since 2005, CollegeInsider.com has awarded the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award to recognize the top men’s Division I mid-major* college basketball coach of the season. The award is named after Hugh Durham, a College Hall of Famer who spent 39 years as head coach at Jacksonville, Georgia and Florida State and compiled 633 career wins.
2005 — Bob Thomason, Pacific
2006 — Pat Flannery, Bucknell
2007 — Gregg Marshall, Winthrop
2008 — Keno Davis, Drake
2009 — Todd Bozeman, Morgan State
2010– Mike Young, Wofford
2011 — Rick Byrd, Belmont
2012 — Eddie Payne, USC Upstate
2013 — Danny Kaspar, Stephen F. Austin
2014 — Tony Jasick, Fort Wayne
2015 — Brian Katz, Sacramento State
2016 — James Jones, Yale
2017 — Rod Barnes, Cal State Bakersfield
2018 — Ryan Odom, UMBC
2019 — Darian DeVries, Drake
2020 — Steve Forbes, East Tennessee State
2021 — Byron Smith, Prairie View A&M
2022 — Robert Jones, Norfolk State
2023 — Amir Abdur-Rahim, Kennesaw State
2024 — Josh Schertz, Indiana State
2025 — John Groce, Akron
2026 — Jon Perry, Navy
* Collegeinsider defines “mid-major” as a school from one of the following leagues: America East, ASUN, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, CAA, Horizon, Independent, Ivy, MAAC, MAC, MEAC, MVC, NEC, OVC, Patriot, SoCon, Southland, SWAC, Summit, Sun Belt, WCC & WAC.
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