UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year


The UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year was an annual basketball award given to the best men's basketball head coach in NCAA Division I competition. The award was first given following the 1954–55 season and was discontinued following the 1995–96 season. It was given by United Press International, a news agency in the United States that rivaled the Associated Press but began to decline with the advent of television news.
The last winner was Gene Keady of Purdue, who led the Boilermakers to a 26–6 record and a berth into the 1996 NCAA Tournament's Second Round.
UCLA claimed the most all–time winners with six, followed by San Francisco with three. Five additional schools claimed two winners apiece, while the rest only had one winner each.
Wooden garnered the most UPI Coach of the Year awards, receiving six throughout his tenure at UCLA. Six other coaches received the award twice: Bob Knight, Ray Meyer, Adolph Rupp, Norm Stewart, Fred Taylor and Phil Woolpert. The only coach whose team did not qualify for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was Miami 's Leonard Hamilton, who won the award in 1994–95 after leading the Hurricanes to the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. Hamilton is also the only recipient with a double–digit loss season; his 1994–95 squad finished 15–13.

Key

Winners

SeasonCoachSchoolRecordPostseason result
1954–55San Francisco'
1955–56 San Francisco '
1956–57North Carolina'
1957–58Kansas State
1958–59Kentucky
1959–60California
1960–61Ohio State
1961–62 Ohio State
1962–63Cincinnati
1963–64UCLA'
1964–65Michigan
1965–66 Kentucky
1966–67 UCLA '
1967–68Houston
1968–69 UCLA '
1969–70 UCLA '
1970–71Marquette
1971–72 UCLA '
1972–73 UCLA
1973–74Notre Dame
1974–75Indiana
1975–76Rutgers
1976–77San Francisco
1977–78Arkansas
1978–79Indiana State
1979–80DePaul
1980–81Oregon State
1981–82Missouri
1982–83UNLV
1983–84 DePaul
1984–85St. John's
1985–86Duke
1986–87Georgetown
1987–88Temple
1988–89 Indiana
1989–90Connecticut
1990–91Utah
1991–92Tulane
1992–93Vanderbilt
1993–94 Missouri
1994–95Miami
1995–96Purdue