It’s a good time to be UNC men’s basketball head coach Hubert Davis. Just days after leading his team to the Sweet 16, Davis was announced as a nominee for several prestigious coaching honors: the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award, the Joe B. Hall Award, the Ben Jobe Award and the Jim Phelan Award.
The Prosser Award is given annually to “those who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who display moral integrity off the floor as well,” while the Hall Award is given to the top first-year coach in Division I basketball.
The Jobe Award honors the top minority coach in Division I college basketball. Davis is the first African-American to hold the position of head coach with the men’s basketball program. The Phelan Award is one of several awards which honor the National Coach of the Year.
The Skip Prosser Award is named in honor of the late Wake Forest men’s basketball head coach, who enjoyed success with the Demon Deacons in the early 2000s before passing away in 2007. Previous winners include Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey and former Wake Forest head coach Danny Manning.
The Joe B. Hall Award has been given annually since 2012, and is named after the championship-winning head coach of Kentucky in the 1970s. Previous winners of the Hall Award include former Stephen F. Austin and current Illinois coach Brad Underwood, as well as former UMBC coach Ryan Odom, who famously led his team to the first and only No. 16-over-No. 1 upset in NCAA Tournament history. No coach from the ACC has ever won the award.
Previous winners of the Jobe Award include Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton in 2021 and Connecticut’s Kevin Ollie in 2013. The Phelan Award counts among its winners Virginia head coach Tony Bennett (he won the award while at Washington State), Oregon’s Dana Altman, Wisconsin’s Greg Gard and former Kentucky head coach Tubby Smith.
Davis and the Tar Heels will be back in action Friday night in Philadelphia when they take on No. 4 seed UCLA.
Featured image via Todd Melet
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