Ben Jobe Award

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 NCAA Division I competition. The award was established in 2010 and is named for head coach Ben Jobe, who coached at numerous historically black colleges but whose longest tenure at one school was 12 years, which he completed at Southern University.^[1]

Ben Jobe Award

Awarded for	Nation's top minority men's coach in NCAA Division I basketball
Country	United States
Presented by	Collegeinsider.com
History
First award	2010
Most recent	Donte Jackson, Grambling State
Website	www.collegeinsider.com/jobe/

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 of Fairfield, dealt with numerous injuries but still managed to lead the Stags to a near-school record 23 wins in 2009–10.^[1]

Winners

*	Awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year the same season
Coach (X)	Denotes the number of times the coach has been awarded the Ben Jobe Award

Year	Coach	School	Record	Reference
2009–10	Ed Cooley	Fairfield	23–11	^[2]
2010–11	Cuonzo Martin	Missouri State	26–9	^[3]
2011–12	Sean Woods	Mississippi Valley State	21–13	^[4]
2012–13	Kevin Ollie	UConn	20–10	^[5]
2013–14	Willis Wilson	Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	18–16	^[6]
2014–15	Bobby Collins	Maryland Eastern Shore	18–15	^[7]
2015–16	Dana Ford	Tennessee State	20–16	^[8]
2016–17	Jamion Christian	Mount St. Mary's	20–11	^[9]
2017–18	Donte Jackson	Grambling State	17–14	^[10]
2018–19	James Jones	Yale	22–8	^[11]
2019–20	Damon Stoudamire	Pacific	23–9	^[12]
2020–21	Leonard Hamilton	Florida State	18–7	^[13]
2021–22	Kelvin Sampson	Houston	32–6	^[14]
2022–23	Jerry Stackhouse	Vanderbilt	25–15	^[15]
2023–24	Donte Jackson (2)	Grambling State	21–15	^[16]

Winners by school

School	Winners	Years
Fairfield	1	2010
Florida State	1	2021
Grambling State	1	2018
Houston	1	2022
Maryland Eastern Shore	1	2015
Mississippi Valley State	1	2012
Missouri State	1	2011
Mount St. Mary's	1	2017
Pacific	1	2020
Tennessee State	1	2016
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	1	2014
UConn	1	2013
Vanderbilt	1	2023
Yale	1	2019

References

1. "2010 Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year Award". CollegeInsider.com. 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
2. Staff (2 April 2010). "Fairfield's Cooley picked top minority coach". Stamford Advocate. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
3. Budden, Kris (1 April 2011). "Vols' Martin wins Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year Award". WBIR 10. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
4. "Woods wins Ben Jobe Award". Mississippi Valley State University. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
5. . Hartford Courant. 5 April 2013. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
6. "2014 Ben Jobe Award".
7. "Home About the Award Past Recipients Award Committee Contact Us".
8. "TSU men's basketball coach Dana Ford wins Ben Jobe award". 4 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
9. "Jamion Christian Named Ben Jobe Coach of the Year by CollegeInsider.com". 2 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
10. "Grambling's Jackson named Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year". 3 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
11. "Jones Named 2019 Ben Jobe Award Winner By CollegeInsider". 5 April 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
12. "Stoudamire Tabbed Ben Jobe Award Recipient". WCCsports.com. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
13. "Florida State's Leonard Hamilton is the Recipient of the 2021 Ben Jobe Award" (PDF). CollegeInsider.com. 1 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
14. "Kelvin Sampson Receives Ben Jobe Award". uhcougars.com. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
15. "Vanderbilt's Jerry Stackhouse is the recipient of the 2023 Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year award".
16. "Grambling State's Donte' Jackson Becomes A Two-Time Ben Jobe Award Winner". April 4, 2024.

External links

• Official website