Pat Riley has won coach-of-the-year honors before.

He is the only collegiate gymnastics coach to amass 900 wins and earn coach-of-the-year honors seven times.

Chaney became only the third coach to win consecutive coach-of-the-year honors since the association began presenting the award in 1957.

If the Seahawks make the playoffs, Erickson deserves coach-of-the-year honors.

He has won coach-of-the-year honors everywhere he's been.

He spent three seasons at the school, winning the provincial collegiate championship and earning coach-of-the-year honours in 1989.

He drew praise for a job many considered worthy of coach-of-the-year honors, an award he has never won.

But he won Big Ten coach-of-the-year honors in 1982 when his team was only 3-8.

Both earned coach-of-the-year honors in their first season with the Giants.

Colangelo had been modest in his praise of Mitchell, but last week he applauded him publicly for the first time as worthy of coach-of-the-year honors.