THE HUGH DURHAM AWARD

ETSU's Steve Forbes is the recipient of the 2020 Hugh Durham Award. The award is presented annually to the top mid-major coach in college basketball.

March 23, 2020

THE 2020 AWARD

BOSTON, MA -- ETSU head coach Steve Forbes is the recipient of the 2019-20 Hugh Durham Award, presented presented annually to the top mid-major coach in Division I college basketball.

Forbes led ETSU to a 30-4 record this season. The Bucs were one of only four teams in the nation to win 30 games and it's just a the fourth time, in Southern Conference history, that a program has reached the 30-win mark.

The award is named after a who built winning programs at three different universities. In eight seasons as the head coach at Jacksonville University, Durham became the Dolphins' all-time winningest Division I coach (106 wins), making him the only coach in NCAA history to be the winningest coach (pct. or wins) at three different Division I schools.

He built national programs at Florida State where he holds the record for best winning percentage with a 230-95 (.708) record in 12 years. And at Georgia where he is also the all-time winningest coach in the 99-year history of the Bulldog program, having won 297 games in 17 seasons.

Coaches of teams in the following conferences are eligible for the award: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast.


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