Ben Jobe Award


The Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding minority men's college basketball head coach in NCAA Division I competition. The award was established in 2010 and is named for legendary head coach Ben Jobe, who coached at numerous historically black colleges but whose longest tenure at one school was 12 years, which he completed at Southern University.

Selection

The award is presented to the coach who has produced the best results from his basketball team under adverse or otherwise difficult conditions. The inaugural winner, Ed Cooley of Fairfield, dealt with numerous injuries but still managed to lead the Stags to a near-school record 23 wins in 2009–10.

Winners

YearCoachSchoolRecordReference
2009–10Fairfield
2010–11Missouri State
2011–12Mississippi Valley State
2012–13UConn
2013–14Texas A&M–Corpus Christi
2014–15Maryland Eastern Shore
2015–16Tennessee State
2016–17Mount St. Mary's
2017–18Grambling State
2018–19Yale
2019–20Pacific

Winners by school