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March
8, 2010
FINALISTS
FOR HUGH DURHAM AWARD
 BOSTON
(MA) -- The fifteen finalists for the 2010 Hugh
Durham Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award were
announced on Monday.
Fourteen of the finalists were regular season
champions or co-champions or finished second in
their respecitive leagues including Randy Bennett
(St. Mary’s), Tad Boyle (Northern Colorado), Todd
Bozeman (Morgan State), Steve Donahue (Cornell),
Cliff Ellis (Coastal Carolina), Ben Jacobson
(Northern Iowa), Greg Kampe (Oakland), Billy Kennedy
(Murray State), Bob Marlin (Sam Houston State), Fran
McCaffery (Siena), Randy Rahe (Weber State), Brad
Stevens (Butler), Blaine Taylor (Old Dominion) and
Mike Young (Wofford).
Tony Shaver (William & Mary), who has the Tribe on
the verge of the school’s first-ever postseason
appearance, rounds out the list. Donahue was honored
in January as the Award’s mid-season honoree.
The Hugh Durham Award is given annually to the
nation’s top mid-major coach, as voted on by the
20-member panel. The winner will be presented with
the award at the Final Four in Indianapolis.
In 2005 the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Coach of
the Year award was renamed in honor of Hugh Durham,
the coaching legend who had retired at the end of
the 2004-05 season. Durham is one of just twelve
coaches to have led two different programs to the
NCAA Final Four (Florida State in 1972 and Georgia
in 1983). He is the only coach among that group to
have led both schools to their lone Final Four
appearance.
The previous winners of the award were Bozeman last
season, Keno Davis (Drake) in 2008, Gregg Marshall
(Winthrop) in 2007, Pat Flannery (Bucknell) in 2006
and Bob Thomason (Pacific) in 2005.
2010
HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS
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Coach |
School |
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Randy Bennett |
St. Mary's |
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Tad Boyle |
Northern Colorado |
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Todd Bozeman |
Morgan State |
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Steve Donahue |
Cornell |
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Cliff Ellis |
Coastal Carolina |
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Ben Jacobson |
Northern Iowa |
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Greg Kampe |
Oakland |
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Billy Kennedy |
Murray State |
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Bob Marlin |
Sam Houston State |
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Fran McCaffery |
Siena |
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Randy Rahe |
Weber State |
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Tony Shaver |
William & Mary |
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Brad Stevens |
Butler |
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Blaine Taylor |
Old Dominion |
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Mike Young |
Wofford |
Dec.
30, 2009
STEVE
DONAHUE EARNS HUGH DURHAM AWARD MID-SEASON HONORS
 BOSTON
(MA) -- After leading Cornell to a 10-2 start, Steve
Donahue has received the Hugh Durham award
mid-season coaching honors.
"This is a great honor to be recognized as a
candidate for the Hugh Durham Award,” said Donahue,
“but what it really speaks to is the quality of kids
we've brought in here at Cornell. Our goal each
season is to become the most improved team in the
country from beginning to end, and I look forward to
seeing exactly what this team is capable of."
Cornell has posted road wins over Alabama, Bucknell,
Davidson, Drexel, LaSalle, Massachusetts and St.
John’s. The win over St. John’s came in the
championship game of the 2009 Madison Square Garden
Holiday Festival. It was also Cornell’s first-ever
win over a team from the Big East Conference.
Cornell’s current eight-game winning streak is the
third-longest of the decade (16-game streak in
2007-08 and a nine-game run in 2008-09). The great
start has vaulted Cornell to No. 4 in the Mid-Major
Top 25 (CollegeInsider.com). It’s the program’s
highest-ever ranking.
“Cornell is no longer just a very good team from the
Ivy League.” says Joe Dwyer, CollegeInsider.com
co-founder. “Cornell is one of the top programs in
college basketball, outside of the proverbial power
conferences. Steve [Donahue] has done a phenomenal
job in transforming the Big Red into a legitimate
team to watch in March.”
Donahue, a finalist for the 2007-08 Hugh Durham
Award, is now in his tenth season at Cornell. Last
season the Big Red became the first team in Ivy
League history other than Penn or Princeton to win
consecutive outright conference crowns.
The Hugh Durham award is presented annually to the
top mid-major coach in America. In 2005 the
CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Coach of the Year award
was renamed in honor of Hugh Durham who retired at
the end of the 2004-05 season. Durham is one of just
twelve coaches to have led two different programs to
the NCAA Final Four (Florida State, 1972 & Georgia,
1983). He is the only coach to lead both teams to
their only Final Four appearance.
Previous winners of the award are Todd Bozeman
(Morgan State), Keno Davis (Drake 2008), Gregg
Marshall (Winthrop 2007), Pat Flannery, (Bucknell
2006) and Bob Thomason (Pacific 2005).
The 2010 award will be presented on April 2 at the
Final Four in Indianapolis.
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