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

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competition. The award was established in 2010 and is named for head coach

Ben Jobe Ben W. Jobe (March 2, 1933 – March 10, 2017) was an American basketball coach. He was best known as the head coach of the Southern University Jaguars – a position he held for 12 years. He has also been head coach of the men's college basketb ...

, who coached at numerous

historically black college Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African Americans. Most are in the Southern U ...

s but whose longest tenure at one school was 12 years, which he completed at

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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 Ed Cooley (born September 10, 1969) is an American college basketball coach and currently the head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball program. Cooley held the same position at Providence College from 2011 to 2023, and Fairfield Univ ...

of Fairfield, dealt with numerous injuries but still managed to lead the Stags to a near-school record 23 wins in 2009–10.

Winners

References

External links

* {{Men's college basketball award navbox College basketball trophies and awards in the United States Awards established in 2010