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MSU's Prohm Named to Durham Award Finalists

MSU's Prohm Named to Durham Award Finalists
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By MSU Athletics
Mar. 23, 2015 | MURRAY, KY
By MSU Athletics Mar. 23, 2015 | 06:57 PM | MURRAY, KY
Murray State head coach Steve Prohm has been named as one of 16 finalists for the 2015 Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year award.
 
The staff at CollegeInsider.com announced the list from their home office in Boston.
 
Prohm, who was also on the Durham list in his rookie season in 2011-12, is back in the running for the honor that will be given to the top mid-major men's basketball in the nation.
 
In his fourth season at Murray State, Prohm has surpassed every coach before him in the 90-year history of Racer Basketball. He became the fastest MSU coach to 100 victories this season with a win (Feb. 26) over Eastern Illinois. Prohm is 103-28 as the Racers play at Tulsa Monday night in the National Invitation second round.
 
Under Prohm's guidance, the Racers are 28-5 and became just the fifth team in 67 seasons to go undefeated in the Ohio Valley Conference and the first in school history at 16-0. MSU had a 25-game win streak that spanned all of December, January and February. The Racers also cracked the top-25 late in the season in both the USA Today and Associated Press polls. He was named the OVC Coach of the Year for the second time this season and Prohm was a semifinalist for the Naismith Trophy.
 
The finalists include Tommy Amaker (Harvard), Will Brown (Albany), Bobby Collins (UMES), Keno Davis (Central Michigan), Bryce Drew (Valparaiso),Jim Engles (NJIT), Bill Herrion (New Hampshire), Bobby Hurley (Buffalo), Ben Jacobson (Northern Iowa), James Jones (Yale), Brian Katz (Sacramento State), Jim Les (UC Davis), LeVelle Moton (North Carolina Central), Steve Prohm (Murray State), Heath Schroyer (UT-Martin) and Brad Underwood (Stephen F. Austin)

The Hugh Durham Award is presented annually to the nation's top mid-major coach. The award is named in honor of Hugh Durham who had 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 in 1972 and Georgia in 1983). He is the only coach among that group to have led both schools to their lone Final Four appearance.

The recipient of the 2015 award will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Banquet on April 3 in Indianapolis, site of the 2015 men's division I basketball championship.
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