Hugh Durham Award

BOSTON – Colgate Head Men's Basketball Coach Matt Langel has been named a finalist for the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year award.
 
The Hugh Durham award is presented annually to the top Division I mid-major coach in college basketball.
 
Langel, the program's all-time winningest head coach, is guiding Colgate to uncharted territory at the top of the Patriot League. The Raiders won their third conference title in four years and earned a No. 14 seed in the NCAA tournament, where they took Big Ten regular season champion Wisconsin to the wire in a 67-60 decision last Friday in Milwaukee.
 
Colgate tied the Patriot League record with 16 conference wins this season. The Raiders finished 23-12 overall and 16-2 in conference play, checking off another 20-win season. Excluding the shortened 2020-21 season in which Colgate only played 16 games, the Raiders have achieved three consecutive 20-win seasons – the only three in program history.
 
The Raiders in 2021-22 reached their fifth consecutive Patriot League championship game, including four in a row in Hamilton, with three regular season championships during that stretch. No other Patriot League team has ever reached four consecutive title games.
 
Langel guided Colgate to a program-record 15 consecutive wins this season, which culminated with a 74-58 championship victory over Navy. The Raiders won their three Patriot League tournament games by 28, 20, and 16 points to secure the program's fifth overall title.
 
In his 11th season at the helm, Langel is a three-time Patriot League Coach of the Year. In 2020, he became the first coach in Patriot League history to three-peat the Coach of the Year honor. 
 
Colgate concluded the 2021-22 season ranked second nationally in 3-point field goal percentage, fifth in total assists, sixth in total 3-point field goals made, and eighth in assists per game.

ABOUT THE HUGH DURHAM AWARD

The Hugh Durham award, presented annually to the top Division I mid-major coach in college basketball, is named after a coach 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.

2021-22 HUGH DURHAM AWARD FINALISTS

Griff Aldrich, Longwood
John Becker, Vermont
Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's
Scott Bennett, Bellarmine
Todd Golden, San Francisco
Jared Grasso, Bryant
Eric Henderson, South Dakota State
Shaheen Holloway, Saint Peter's
Ben Jacobson, Northern Iowa
Robert Jones, Norfolk State
Matt Langel, Colgate
Bashir Mason, Wagner
Matt McMahon, Murray State
Bucky McMillan, Samford
Lamont Paris, Chattanooga
Rick Pitino, Iona
Todd Simon, Southern Utah
Pat Skerry, Towson
Danny Sprinkle, Montana State
Chris Victor, Seattle