The Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is a basketball award given to the most outstanding men's basketball head coach in the Big 12 Conference, as chosen by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters. The award was first given following the 1996–97 season, the first year of the conference's existence, to Kansas Jayhawks head coach Roy Williams.
As of 2025, current Kansas Jayhawks head coach Bill Self has won the award six times, leading the league. Four other head coaches have won the award twice. The voting finished in a tie in 2011–12, with Self and Iowa State Cyclones head coach Fred Hoiberg sharing honors.
Five coaches have won Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year in the same season that they have also won a National Coach of the Year Award — Roy Williams, Larry Eustachy, Bill Self, Jerome Tang, and Kelvin Sampson. The Kansas Jayhawks have the most Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year Awards with eight, while the Texas Longhorns (which left for the Southeastern Conference in 2024) are second with four. Kansas State has the most individual recipients of the award with three; Iowa State, Kansas, and Texas Tech have had two recipients each. The only pre-2023 members that have never had a coach win are Colorado, which left the Big 12 in 2011 but returned in 2024, and TCU, a member since 2011. Sampson received the 2024 and 2025 award with first-year member Houston, leaving the three other new conference arrivals (Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, UCF and Utah) without a winner for the time being. Three former Big 12 members — Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma — also never had a winner.
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) 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 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
SeasonCoachSchool National Coach ofthe Year AwardsConf.W–LConf.St.OverallW–L Source(s) 1996–97*KansasN11997–98*Oklahoma State—2T 1998–99 Texas—1 1999–00 Iowa State AP1 2000–01 (2) Iowa State —1 2001–02* (2)Kansas —1 2002–03 (2) Texas —2 2003–04* (2) Oklahoma State —1 2004–05 Texas A&M —7 2005–06*^ Kansas—1T 2006–07 (2) Texas A&M —2 2007–08 (3) Texas —1T 2008–09*^(2) Kansas AP CBS SN USBWA1 2009–10 Kansas State —2 2010–11*^(3) Kansas —12011 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men’s Basketball Awards Announced 2011–12 *^(4) Kansas Iowa State — 1 3T 2012–13 Kansas State —1T 2013–14 (4) Texas —3T 2014–15 * West Virginia — 4T 2015–16 Texas Tech — 7 2016–17*^(5) Kansas — 1 2017–18 *^(6) Kansas Texas Tech — 1 2T 2018–19 (2) Texas Tech — 1T 2019–20 Baylor — 22020–21‡ (2) Baylor — 12021–22 (3)Baylor—14–41T2022–23Jerome TangKansas StateN3T2023–24Kelvin SampsonHoustonAP NABC USBWA12024–25Kelvin Sampson (2)HoustonSN12025–26Tommy Lloyd (1)ArizonaSN1
Winners by school School (years in Big 12) Winners YearsKansas (1996–present)8 1997, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018Texas (1996–2024)4 1999, 2003, 2008, 2014Iowa State (1996–present)3 2000, 2001, 2012Texas Tech (1996–present)3 2016, 2018, 2019Baylor (1996–present)3 2020, 2021, 2022Kansas State (1996–present)3 2010, 2013, 2023Oklahoma State (1996–present)2 1998, 2004Texas A&M (1996–2012)2 2005, 2007 Houston (2023–present)2 2024, 2025 Arizona (2024–present) 1 2026 West Virginia (2012–present) 1 2015 Arizona State (2024–present) 0 — BYU (2023–present) 0 — Cincinnati (2023–present) 0 — Colorado (1996–2011, 2024–present)0—Missouri (1996–2012)0—Nebraska (1996–2011)0—Oklahoma (1996–2024)0—TCU (2012–present)0— UCF (2023–present) 0 — Utah (2024–present) 0 —
See also Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
References General Go to page 11 for the list of winners.
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