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THE HUGH DURHAM AWARD

Sacramento State's Brian Katz accepts the 2015 Hugh Durham award at the CollegeInsider.com Award's Banquet on April 3 in Indianapolis.

April 4, 2016

2016 HUGH DURHAM AWARD

HOUSTON, TX -- Yale's James Jones is the recipient of the 2016 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year award.

Jones led Yale to an historic season, which included the first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1962 and the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament victory. Yale won 23 games, which was the most in a season since the 1906-07 team went 30-7-1.

The Hugh Durham Award is presented annually to the nation's top mid-major coach.

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.

2016 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS

Chris Beard, Little Rock

Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's

Ken Burmeister, Incarnate Word

Jon Coffman, IFPW

Bryce Drew, Valparaiso

Bill Evans, Idaho State

Dana Ford, Tennessee State

Eran Ganot, Hawaii

Murray Garvin, South Carolina State

Mitch Henderson, Princeton

James Jones, Yale

Kevin Keatts, UNCW

Dan Majerle, Grand Canyon

Matt McCall, Chattanooga

Nick McDevitt, UNC Asheville

Marvin Menzies, New Mexico State

Joe Mihalich, Hofstra

Steve Piekel, Stony Brook

King Rice, Monmouth

Marty Simmons, Evansville

Brad Underwood, Stephen F. Austin


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