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Prohm Named As Durham & Phelan Coach Of The Year Finalist
3/20/2012 2:58:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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Murray State head men's basketball coach Steve Prohm led the Racers to a record-breaking 2011-12 season and now he's being considered for national awards.
This week, the rookie Racer coach was named to the candidates list for the Hugh Durham and Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year awards sponsored by CollegeInsider.com
Prohm's Racers were 31-2 this season, a mark that tied the school record for wins on their way to the Ohio Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Racers were the final undefeated team at 23-0 and were the only team in NCAA D-I that was undefeated in road games at 13-0.
The Racers won a game in the NCAA's for the second time in three seasons when they knocked off Colorado State 58-41 (March 15) in Louisville, Ky., and they just missed going to the Sweet 16 in a hard-fought defeat to Marquette 62-53 (March 17).
Prohm was the eighth straight MSU coach to win the OVC regular season title and he was the fifth rookie coach to do it. He was the third MSU rookie to be named OVC Coach of the Year.
His 31-2 record goes into the NCAA history book tied with Jamie Dixon (Pittsburgh) in 2003-04 for third place on the all-time list for rookie single season wins. The only other coaches to have more wins are: Bill Guthridge (North Carolina) 1997-98 and Bill Hodges (Indiana State) 1978-79. Prohm's winning percentage of .939 is the sixth best of all time among rookie coaches.
The Hugh Durham Award is given annually to the nation's top mid-major coach. In 2005 the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Coach of the Year award was renamed in honor of Hugh Durham, the coaching legend who had retired at the end of the 2004-05 season. Durham is one of just twelve coaches to have led two different programs to the NCAA Final Four (Florida State in 1972 and Georgia in 1983). He is the only coach among that group to have led both schools to their lone Final Four appearance.
The Jim Phelan Award is named after Coach Phelan who coached his entire career at Mount Saint Mary's University. He led the Mountaineers to the 1962 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. When he retired in 2003, after coaching for 49 years, he amassed 830 wins (overall record of 830-524) in over 1,300 games in all divisions. In those 49 years, 19 of his teams amassed 20 or more wins in a season.
The winners of these and other awards will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com awards banquet on March 30 in New Orleans, site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.
2012 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS
2012 JIM PHELAN AWARD FINALISTS
Murray State head men's basketball coach Steve Prohm led the Racers to a record-breaking 2011-12 season and now he's being considered for national awards.
This week, the rookie Racer coach was named to the candidates list for the Hugh Durham and Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year awards sponsored by CollegeInsider.com
Prohm's Racers were 31-2 this season, a mark that tied the school record for wins on their way to the Ohio Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Racers were the final undefeated team at 23-0 and were the only team in NCAA D-I that was undefeated in road games at 13-0.
The Racers won a game in the NCAA's for the second time in three seasons when they knocked off Colorado State 58-41 (March 15) in Louisville, Ky., and they just missed going to the Sweet 16 in a hard-fought defeat to Marquette 62-53 (March 17).
Prohm was the eighth straight MSU coach to win the OVC regular season title and he was the fifth rookie coach to do it. He was the third MSU rookie to be named OVC Coach of the Year.
His 31-2 record goes into the NCAA history book tied with Jamie Dixon (Pittsburgh) in 2003-04 for third place on the all-time list for rookie single season wins. The only other coaches to have more wins are: Bill Guthridge (North Carolina) 1997-98 and Bill Hodges (Indiana State) 1978-79. Prohm's winning percentage of .939 is the sixth best of all time among rookie coaches.
The Hugh Durham Award is given annually to the nation's top mid-major coach. In 2005 the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Coach of the Year award was renamed in honor of Hugh Durham, the coaching legend who had retired at the end of the 2004-05 season. Durham is one of just twelve coaches to have led two different programs to the NCAA Final Four (Florida State in 1972 and Georgia in 1983). He is the only coach among that group to have led both schools to their lone Final Four appearance.
The Jim Phelan Award is named after Coach Phelan who coached his entire career at Mount Saint Mary's University. He led the Mountaineers to the 1962 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. When he retired in 2003, after coaching for 49 years, he amassed 830 wins (overall record of 830-524) in over 1,300 games in all divisions. In those 49 years, 19 of his teams amassed 20 or more wins in a season.
The winners of these and other awards will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com awards banquet on March 30 in New Orleans, site of the men's NCAA Basketball Championship.
2012 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS
| Tommy Amaker | Harvard |
| Rod Barnes | Cal State Bakersfield |
| Randy Bennett | Saint Mary's |
| Horace Broadnax | Savannah State |
| Tim Clues | Iona |
| John Cooper | Tennessee State |
| Scott Cross | UT-Arlington |
| Kermit Davis | Middle Tennessee State |
| Bryce Drew | Valparaiso |
| Bruiser Flint | Drexel |
| Gregg Marshall | Wichita State |
| Steve Masiello | Manhattan |
| Greg McDermott | Creighton |
| Dan Monson | Long Beach State |
| Scott Nagy | South Dakota State |
| Eddie Payne | USC Upstate |
| Steve Prohm | Murray State |
| Joe Scott | Denver |
| Shaka Smart | VCU |
| Scott Sutton | Oral Roberts |
| Sean Woods | Mississippi Valley State |
2012 JIM PHELAN AWARD FINALISTS
| Tony Bennett | Virginia |
| Mike Brey | Notre Dame |
| Horace Broadnax | Savannah State |
| John Calipari | Kentucky |
| John Cooper | Tennessee State |
| Tom Crean | Indiana |
| Steve Fisher | San Diego State |
| Frank Haith | Missouri |
| Leonard Hamilton | Florida State |
| Stan Heath | South Florida |
| Fred Hoiberg | Iowa State |
| Tom Izzo | Michigan State |
| Eddie Payne | USC Upstate |
| Steve Prohm | Murray State |
| Bill Self | Kansas |
| John Thompson III | Georgetown |
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