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December 29,
2011
MURRAY STATE'S STEVE PROHM RECEIVES MID-SEASON
HONORS
BOSTON (MA) -- After leading Murray State to its
best start in 75 years, Steve Prohm earns the Hugh
Durham award mid-season coaching honors.
The Racers, who were picked to finish third this
season in the Ohio Valley Conference, started the
season 13-0. It’s the best start since the 1935-36
team began 16-0. The great start has been
highlighted by a Great Alaska Shootout title and the
program’s first win over a ranked opponent in 14
years, as the Racers went on the road and beat No.
20 ranked Memphis. The following day Murray State
was ranked in the AP poll for the first time since
the end of the 1997-98 season.
Prohm's 13-0 start is the best for a rookie head
coach in Racer history ahead of the 9-0 that
Tevester Anderson (now at Jackson State) had in
1998.
After 13 years as an assistant coach, Prohm is in
his first season as head coach, replacing Billy
Kennedy who was named head coach at Texas A&M.
The Hugh Durham award is presented annually to the
top mid-major coach in Division I college
basketball. The award is named after Hugh Durham. He
is the first and only coach in the history of NCAA
Division I basketball to lead two different schools
to the NCAA Final Four for the first and only time
in each school's history (Florida State University
in 1972 and University of Georgia in 1983). Durham
is the only coach in NCAA Division I history to be
the all-time winningest coach at three different
schools (Florida State, Georgia, and Jacksonville).
He finished is his career with 634 wins.
The winner of the 2012 Hugh Durham Award will be
announced on March 30 in New Orleans, site of the
NCAA men’s basketball championship. Previous
recipients include Rick Byrd (Belmont 2011), Mike
Young (Wofford 2010), Todd Bozeman (Morgan State
2009), Keno Davis (Drake 2008), Gregg Marshall
(Winthrop 2007), Pat Flannery (Bucknell 2006) and
Bob Thomason (Pacific 2005). |
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