The Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is a basketball award given to the most outstanding men's basketball head coach in the

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, as chosen by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters. The award was first given following the 1996–97 season, the first year of the conference's existence, to

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head coach Roy Williams. As of 2025, current Kansas Jayhawks head coach

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has won the award six times, leading the league. Four other head coaches have won the award twice. The voting finished in a tie in 2011–12, with Self and

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head coach

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sharing honors. Five coaches have won Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year in the same season that they have also won a National Coach of the Year Award — Roy Williams,

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, Bill Self, Jerome Tang, and

Kelvin Sampson Kelvin Dale Sampson (born October 5, 1955) is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach for the University of Houston of the Big 12 Conference. Early life Sampson was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina, to parents who were m ...

. The Kansas Jayhawks have the most Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year Awards with eight, while the Texas Longhorns (which left for the

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in 2024) are second with four. Kansas State has the most individual recipients of the award with three; Iowa State, Kansas, and Texas Tech have had two recipients each. The only pre-

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members that have never had a coach win are Colorado, which left the Big 12 in 2011 but returned in 2024, and TCU, a member since 2011. Sampson received the 2024 and 2025 award with first-year member Houston, leaving the three other new conference arrivals (Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, UCF and Utah) without a winner for the time being. Three former Big 12 members — Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma — also never had a winner.

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Awards established in 1997

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Winners by school

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