Coach of Year Archive

  • Miller can thank Derrick Williams for Coach of Year award

    Miller can thank Derrick Williams for Coach of Year award

    University of Arizona basketball coach, Sean Miller, is this year’s Pac-10 Coach of the Year.  And that’s an honor well-deserved. Just as it was last year when Arizona State’s head coach, Herb Sendek, won the award. But the Player of the Year award that went to Miller’s 6’8″ super forward has to carry even greater [...]

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  • Pac-10 honors Sendek for ASU’s best hoops finish in 30 years

    Pac-10 honors Sendek for ASU’s best hoops finish in 30 years

    Score one for the over-achiever.  Herb Sendek was just selected the Pac-10 basketball Coach of the Year. Score one for Lisa Love.  She looks like a genius right now. Sendek, the ASU head coach hired away from North Carolina State four years ago to resurrect the basketball program, has just led the Sun Devils to [...]

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  • Mesa CC, CAC pull down conference hoops honors

    Mesa CC, CAC pull down conference hoops honors

    A couple of local basketball players decided to stay home after high school and lend their talents to Arizona colleges.  And now it has paid off handsomely for each. And for their schools.  And for their coaches.  It’s called the ‘trickle-down’ effect. Olivia Major, a sophomore who arrived at Central Arizona College from Washington High [...]

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