THE HUGH DURHAM AWARD



March 23, 2020



THE 2020 AWARD



BOSTON, MA -- ETSU head coach Steve Forbes is the recipient of the 2019-20 Hugh Durham Award, presented presented annually to the top mid-major coach in Division I college basketball.



Forbes led ETSU to a 30-4 record this season. The Bucs were one of only four teams in the nation to win 30 games and it's just a the fourth time, in Southern Conference history, that a program has reached the 30-win mark.



The award is named after a who built winning programs at three different universities. 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.



Coaches of teams in the following conferences are eligible for the award: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Horizon, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast.





2020 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS Casey Alexander, Belmont John Becker, Vermont Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's Jerrod Calhoun, Youngstown State Dane Fischer, William & Mary Steve Forbes, ETSU Joe Gallo, Merrimack John Groce, Akron Shaheen Holloway, Saint Peter's Ben Jacobson, Northern Iowa Chris Jans, New Mexico State James Jones, Yale Mike Jones, Radford Kyle Keller, Stephen F. Austin Pat Kelsey, Winthrop Ritchie McKay, Liberty Matt McMahon, Murray State Joe Mihalich, Hofstra Scott Nagy, Wright State David Patrick, UC Riverside Mark Pope, BYU Bob Richey, Furman Byron Smith, Prairie View A&M Russell Turner, UC Irvine Darrell Walker, Little Rock

