Hugh Durham Award

Selection

The Hugh Durham Award is voted on by 20 members who are on a panel consisting of former and current head coaches. Durham himself is the chairman, and the award is presented at the Final Four to the top mid-major men's basketball coach.

Definitions of the term "mid-major" in the context of college basketball vary widely. For purposes of its "mid-major" awards and honors—the Durham Award for coaches and the Lou Henson Award and Lou Henson All-America Team for players—CollegeInsider.com has established its own definition of the term, which includes the following conferences, as well as any basketball independents.

• America East Conference
• Atlantic Sun Conference
• Big Sky Conference
• Big South Conference
• Big West Conference
• Colonial Athletic Association
• Horizon League
• Ivy League
• Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
• Mid-American Conference
• Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
• Missouri Valley Conference
• Northeast Conference
• Ohio Valley Conference
• Patriot League
• Southern Conference
• Southland Conference
• Southwestern Athletic Conference
• Summit League
• Sun Belt Conference
• West Coast Conference
• Western Athletic Conference

Of these conferences, the only ones that sponsor FBS football are the MAC and the Sun Belt. All other FBS conferences, as well as the Atlantic 10 Conference (which has not sponsored football at all since 2006), have been excluded from the Collegeinsider.com list of "mid-majors" throughout the award's history. Following major conference realignment that peaked in 2013, the WAC, which dropped football after the 2012 season, was added to the eligible list, while both offshoots of the original Big East Conference—the FBS American Athletic Conference and the new non-football Big East—were excluded from eligibility

Key

Winners

References

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References

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2. (January 27, 2010). "CollegeInsider.com establishes the Lou Henson National Player of the Year Award". CollegeInsider.com.
3. (2007). "Winthrop Coach Receives Top Mid-Major Coaching Award From CollegeInsider.com". [[Winthrop University]].
4. (5 April 2006). "Flannery Receives 2006 Hugh Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com.
5. (30 March 2007). "Winthrop's Gregg Marshall Receives 2007 Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com.
6. (4 April 2008). "Drake's Keno Davis Receives 2008 Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com.
7. (3 April 2009). "Morgan State's Todd Bozeman Receives 2009 Durham Award". CollegeInsider.com.
8. Staff. (2 April 2010). "Wofford's Young named Mid-Major Coach of the Year". Spartanburg Herald Journal.
9. Staff. (1 April 2011). "Rick Byrd Named 2011 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year". Belmont University.
10. (March 30, 2012). "USC Upstate's Payne Claims 2012 Hugh Durham Award". Atlantic Sun Conference.
11. (April 5, 2013). "Danny Kaspar Wins 2013 Hugh Durham Award". Texas State University.
12. Pantazi, Dean. (April 6, 2014). "IPFW's Jasick Honored As Mid Major Coach Of The Year". IndianaNewscenter.com.
13. (April 3, 2015). "BRIAN KATZ NAMED THE NATIONAL MID-MAJOR COACH OF THE YEAR". hornetsports.com.
14. (April 4, 2016). "Jones Wins Hugh Durham Award". yalebulldogs.com.
15. (April 3, 2017). "CSUB's Barnes Named Hugh Durham Mid-Major Coach of the Year". wacsports.com.
16. (April 2, 2018). "Ryan Odom Named 2018 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year". umbcretrievers.com.
17. (April 5, 2019). "DeVries Named CollegeInsider.com Hugh Durham Coach of the Year". godrakebulldogs.com.
18. (March 23, 2020). "Forbes named Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year". etsubucs.com.
19. (April 1, 2021). "Prairie View A&M's Byron Smith is the Recipient of the 2021 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award". College Insider.
20. "2021: Byron Smith, Prairie View A&M".
21. "Kennesaw State's Amir Abdur-Rahim is the recipient of the 2023 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year award.".