Ben Jobe Award
# 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.

## 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.

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

## 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 |
