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Prohm Named Durham Award Mid-Season Honoree
12/29/2011 1:24:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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After leading Murray State to its best start in 75 years, Murray State Head Coach Steve Prohm has been honored by CollegeInsider.com with recognition as the mid-season Hugh Durham Award honoree.
The Hugh Durham award is presented annually to the top mid-major coach in NCAA D-I basketball. The award is named after Hugh Durham who was an icon in the game with coaching stops at Florida State, Georgia and Jacksonville.
The Racers are off to one of the best starts in the 87 seasons in program history at 13-0, the best start since the 1935-36 team began 16-0. MSU began a quest for its third straight Ohio Valley Conference regular season title last week with a win over UT Martin and travel to Charleston, Ill., Friday for their first league road test.
Because of its fast start, the Racers have broken into the Associated Press poll (no. 20 this week) and ESPN/USA Today poll (no. 21 this week) marking their first time to be ranked since 1998.
Prohm is in his first season as head coach, replacing Billy Kennedy who is now the head coach at Texas A&M. Kennedy was a finalist for the Durham Award in 2010.
The Hugh Durham award is named after the first and only coach in the history of NCAA Division I basketball to
lead two different schools to the NCAA Final Four for the first and only time in each school's history (Florida State University in 1972 and University of Georgia in 1983). Durham is the only coach in NCAA Division I history to be the all-time winningest coach at three different schools (Florida State, Georgia, and Jacksonville). He finished is his career with 634 wins.
The winner of the 2012 Hugh Durham Award will be announced on March 30 in New Orleans, site of the NCAA men's basketball championship. Previous recipients include Rick Byrd (Belmont 2011), Mike Young (Wofford 2010), Todd Bozeman (Morgan State 2009), Keno Davis (Drake 2008), Gregg Marshall (Winthrop 2007), Pat Flannery (Bucknell 2006) and Bob Thomason (Pacific 2005).
After leading Murray State to its best start in 75 years, Murray State Head Coach Steve Prohm has been honored by CollegeInsider.com with recognition as the mid-season Hugh Durham Award honoree.
The Hugh Durham award is presented annually to the top mid-major coach in NCAA D-I basketball. The award is named after Hugh Durham who was an icon in the game with coaching stops at Florida State, Georgia and Jacksonville.
The Racers are off to one of the best starts in the 87 seasons in program history at 13-0, the best start since the 1935-36 team began 16-0. MSU began a quest for its third straight Ohio Valley Conference regular season title last week with a win over UT Martin and travel to Charleston, Ill., Friday for their first league road test.
Because of its fast start, the Racers have broken into the Associated Press poll (no. 20 this week) and ESPN/USA Today poll (no. 21 this week) marking their first time to be ranked since 1998.
Prohm is in his first season as head coach, replacing Billy Kennedy who is now the head coach at Texas A&M. Kennedy was a finalist for the Durham Award in 2010.
The Hugh Durham award is named after the first and only coach in the history of NCAA Division I basketball to
lead two different schools to the NCAA Final Four for the first and only time in each school's history (Florida State University in 1972 and University of Georgia in 1983). Durham is the only coach in NCAA Division I history to be the all-time winningest coach at three different schools (Florida State, Georgia, and Jacksonville). He finished is his career with 634 wins.
The winner of the 2012 Hugh Durham Award will be announced on March 30 in New Orleans, site of the NCAA men's basketball championship. Previous recipients include Rick Byrd (Belmont 2011), Mike Young (Wofford 2010), Todd Bozeman (Morgan State 2009), Keno Davis (Drake 2008), Gregg Marshall (Winthrop 2007), Pat Flannery (Bucknell 2006) and Bob Thomason (Pacific 2005).
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