The Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is a basketball award given to head coaches in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The award is granted to the head coach voted to be the most successful that season by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association, and since the 2012–13 season has also been awarded in separate voting by the league's coaches. The award was first given following the 1953–54 season, the first year of the conference's existence, to Everett Case of NC State. The first winner of the coaches' award was Jim Larrañaga of Miami (FL) in 2013.
Dean Smith of North Carolina has won the most awards with eight, followed by Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, with five, and Tony Bennett of Virginia, with four. Fourteen coaches in total have won the award more than once. Fourteen coaches have also won the award in the same season that they have also won a National Coach of the Year award; of those, only Krzyzewski and Smith have achieved the feat three times. Five coaches have won during the same season that they have coached a team that won the NCAA Tournament Championship: Tony Bennett, Frank McGuire, Norm Sloan, Dean Smith, and Gary Williams. McGuire is the only head coach to win the award at two different schools (North Carolina and South Carolina).
Each of the original (1953) ACC members have had at least one of their coaches win the award. Among schools that joined the ACC before 2013, Boston College is the only one that has never had a winning coach. Thirty-one different coaches from twelve schools have received the award. North Carolina has the most ACC Coach of the Year awards with twelve, while its in-state rival, Duke, is second with ten. Each school of Tobacco Road (including NC State and Wake Forest) has won at least seven awards, as has Virginia with eight.
Key Awarded one of the following National Coach of the Year awards that year: Associated Press Coach of the Year (AP) Adolph Rupp Cup (ARC) Basketball Times Coach of the Year (BT) CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year (CBS) Naismith Coach of the Year (N) NABC Coach of the Year (NABC) Sporting News Coach of the Year (SN) United Press International Coach of the Year (UPI) U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that pointElected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach but is no longer activeActive coach who has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (as a coach)Conference win–loss record for that seasonConference standing at year's end (Tdenotes a tie)Overall win–loss record for that seasonSeason‡Team won the NCAA Division I National Championship
Winners
Season Coach School National Coach of the Year AwardsConf. W–LConf. St. Overall W–L Source(s)1953–54 *NC State—41954–55 * (2)NC State—11955–56Wake Forest—3T 1956–57‡ *North CarolinaUPI11957–58 * (3)NC State—31958–59Duke—3T1959–60Wake Forest—2T1960–61 (2)Wake Forest—21961–62South Carolina—41962–63Duke—11963–64 (2)Duke—11964–65NC State—21965–66 (3)Duke—11966–67 *North Carolina—11967–68 * (2)North Carolina—11968–69 * (2)South Carolina—21969–70NC State—31970–71 * (3)North Carolina—11971–72Virginia—31972–73 (2)NC State—1 1973–74‡ (3)NC StateAPUSBWA11974–75*Maryland—1 1975–76 * (4)North Carolina—1 1976–77 * (5)North CarolinaNABC11977–78DukeNABCSN2 1978–79 * (6)North CarolinaUSBWA21979–80* (2)Maryland—11980–81Virginia—11981–82 (2)Virginia—21982–83Georgia Tech—61983–84*Duke—3T1984–85 (2)Georgia TechBT1T 1985–86* (2)DukeBTCBSUPI11986–87Clemson—1 1987–88 * (7)North Carolina—11988–89NC State—41989–90 (2)Clemson—11990–91Wake Forest—3T1991–92Florida State—2 1992–93‡ * (8)North CarolinaBTN1 1993–94 (2)Wake Forest—31994–95 (3)Wake Forest—1T1995–96 (3)Georgia Tech—1 1996–97* (3)DukeBT11997–98North CarolinaCBSNNABCSN2 1998–99* (4)DukeNNABC1 1999–00* (5) Duke —1 2000–01 Georgia Tech —5T 2001–02‡ * Maryland —1 2002–03 Wake Forest —1 2003–04 NC State —2 2004–05 Virginia Tech —4T 2005–06* North Carolina APARCUSBWA2 2006–07 Virginia —1T 2007–08 (2) Virginia Tech —4 2008–09 Florida State BT4 2009–10 * (2) Maryland—1T 2010–11* (2) North Carolina—1 2011–12 (2) Florida State—3 2012–13 Miami (FL) APNUSBWA1 2013–14 Virginia—1 2014–15 (2) Virginia USBWA1 2015–16 (2) Miami (FL) —2TLarranaga wins ACC Coach of the Year , accessed March 11, 20162016–17Josh PastnerGeorgia Tech —11 2017–18 (3) Virginia APNNABCUSBWA1 2018–19‡ (4) Virginia — 1T 2019–20 (3) Florida State — 1 2020–21 Virginia Tech — 3 2021–22 Wake Forest —5 2022–23 Pittsburgh— 5 2023–24 North Carolina — 1 2024–25 Louisville — 2T 2025–26 Duke NABC 1
Winners by school School (year joined) Winners YearsNorth Carolina (1953)13 1957, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2011, 2024Duke (1953)11 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2026NC State (1953)9 1954, 1955, 1958, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1989, 2004Virginia (1953)8 1972, 1981, 1982, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019Wake Forest (1953) 8 1956, 1960, 1961, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2003, 2022Georgia Tech (1978)5 1983, 1985, 1996, 2001, 2017Florida State (1991)4 1992, 2009, 2012, 2020Maryland (1953) 4 1975, 1980, 2002, 2010Virginia Tech (2004)3 2005, 2008, 2021Clemson (1953)2 1987, 1990South Carolina (1953) 2 1962, 1969Miami (FL) (2004) 2 2013, 2016Louisville (2014) 1 2025Pittsburgh (2013) 1 2023Boston College (2005)0 —Notre Dame (2013) 0 —Syracuse (2013) 0 —
See also Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Footnotes The annotation "Miami (FL)" is used to signify that the school is the University of Miami, which is located in Coral Gables, Florida. There is another similarly–named school in the United States called Miami University, which is located in Oxford, Ohio. When these schools' athletic programs are referenced, they are usually demarcated with either "(FL)" or "(OH)" for disambiguation purposes. The 1972–73 NC State Wolfpack team was forced to skip postseason play due to an NCAA recruiting infraction. Assistant coach Eddie Biedenbach had played in a pick-up (impromptu) basketball game with David Thompson on a recruiting visit to Raleigh, North Carolina. The Wolfpack finished the season undefeated at 27–0 but were never given the opportunity to compete for the national championship. The University of Maryland, College Park left the ACC for the Big Ten Conference in 2014. The University of South Carolina left the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1971, and is now a member of the Southeastern Conference.
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