NABC NAMES STEVE PROHM DISTRICT 19 COACH OF THE YEAR

March 21, 2012

Murray State head men’s basketball coach Steve Prohm has been named the National Basketball Coaches Association District 19 Coach of the Year.

“I’m extremely honored to receive this award from my peers,” Prohm said. “It was an amazing season we had at Murray State and I thank our staff and support staff and especially our players for their efforts all season long.”

Prohm and the Racers had a great season and then some in 2011-12 when they were 31-2 and tied the school record for wins in a single season. MSU won their 23rd Ohio Valley Conference regular season championship and went to the NCAA Tournament for the 15th time after winning the OVC Tournament for a 15th time.

Another aspect to the Racers’ season is a feat that may turn out to be a lasting legacy. MSU was the only team in NCAA D-I to go undefeated away from home at 13-0. It’s the first time in 87 years of MSU Basketball.

The Racers also had the distinction of being the final undefeated team this season at 23-0.

MSU set program records in the weekly rankings reaching the top-10 in both the Associated Press Poll and the ESPN/USA Today Poll.

Last week, the Racers won a game in the NCAA's for the second time in three seasons with a 58-41 win over Colorado State 58-41 (March 15) in Louisville, Ky., and they just missed a trip to the Sweet 16 in a 62-53 defeat to Marquette (March 17). Along the way the Racers had out-of-conference wins over the likes of Southern Miss (In the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout), Saint Mary’s, Memphis, UAB, Dayton and Western Kentucky.

Prohm was the third rookie coach at MSU to be named Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year and last week was named Basketball Times Coach of the Year.

Prohm is the sixth MSU coach to win the NABC award since Ron Green in 1980. Other Racer coaches include: Steve Newton (1988), Mark Gottfried (1997), Tevester Anderson (1999) and Billy Kennedy (2010).

2012 NABC DIVISION I ALL-DISTRICT COACHES

District 1:                 Jimmy Patsos, Loyola (MD)                                    

District 2:                 Leonard Hamilton, Florida State                          

District 3:                 Rick Byrd, Belmont                                                  

District 4:                 Fran Dunphy, Temple                                              

District 5:                 Mike Brey, Notre Dame                                           

District 6:                 Wayne Tinkle, Montana                                         

District 7:                 Tom Izzo, Michigan State                                       

District 8:                 Frank Haith, Missouri                                            

District 9:                 Dan Monson, Long Beach State                             

District 10:               Bruiser Flint, Drexel                                                

District 11:               Larry Eustachy, Southern Mississippi                 

District 12:               Scott Nagy, South Dakota State                             

District 13:               Tommy Amaker, Harvard                                        

Co-District 14:         Keith Dambrot, Akron

Co-District 14:         Rob Murphy, Eastern Michigan

District 15:               Horace Broadnax, Savannah State

District 16:               Gregg Marshall, Wichita State

District 17:               Steve Fisher, San Diego State

Co-District 18:         Jim Ferry, Long Island

Co-District 18:         Andrew Toole, Robert Morris

Co-District 18:         Glenn Braica, St. Francis (NY)                               

District 19:               Steve Prohm, Murray State

District 20:               Tad Boyle, Colorado

District 21:               John Calipari, Kentucky

District 22:               Mike Young, Wofford

District 23:               Scott Cross, Texas Arlington

District 24:            Kermit Davis, Middle Tennessee State

From: MSU media relations

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