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Feb. 20, 2007
The fifteen finalists for the 2007 Hugh Durham mid-major coach
of the year award were announced on Tuesday.
Mid-season honoree, Todd Lickliter (Butler) is one of two
coaches from the Horizon league to be represented in the final
fifteen. Wright’s State first-year coach Brad Brownell is also
a finalist. The Colonial Athletic Association (Anthony Grant,
VCU and Blaine Taylor, ODU) and the Southern Conference
(Houston Fancher, Appalachian State and Bob McKillop,
Davidson) also have coaches among the final fifteen. Eleven
conferences in total are represented.
The Hugh Durham Award is given annually to the nation’s top
mid-major coach, as voted on by the 20-member panel. The
winner will be presented with the award at the Final Four in
Atlanta.
In 2005 the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Coach of the Year
award was renamed in honor of Hugh Durham who retired at the
end of the 2004-05 season. Durham is one of just twelve
coaches to have led two different programs to the NCAA Final
Four (Florida State, 1972 & Georgia, 1983). He is the only
coach to lead both teams to their only Final Four appearance.
The previous winners of the award are Pat Flannery, Bucknell
(2006) and Bob Thomason, Pacific (2005).
2007 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS
| Coach |
School |
| Brad
Brownell |
Wright
State |
| Dick
Davey |
Santa
Clara |
| Howie
Dickenman |
Central
Connecticut State |
| Houston
Fancher |
Appalachian State |
| Anthony
Grant |
Virginia
Commonwealth |
| Orlando
Early |
Louisiana-Monroe |
| Todd
Lickliter |
Butler |
| Mike
Lonergan |
Vermont |
| Chris
Lowery |
Southern
Illinois |
| Gregg
Marshall |
Winthrop |
| Bob
McKillop |
Davidson |
| Jimmy
Patsos |
Loyola
(MD) |
| Randy
Rahe |
Weber
State |
| Blaine
Taylor |
Old
Dominion |
| Cliff
Warren |
Jacksonville |
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>>> Butler's
Todd Lickliter
earns mid-season honors |
