Marshall named national coach of the year

[MVCfans]

Well deserved honor.

Link: www.mvcfans.com/wp

[Wufan]

Indeed! Proud to be a Shocker fan!!!

[MVCfans]

Marshall won the AP coach of the year award today also.

[RoyalShock]

And today, the Naismith COY.

Is that a clean sweep of national COY awards?

[Ricardo del Rio]

One time by 10 different organizations for the year 2014.

[ShoxNAwe]

Hank Iba National Coach of the Year award goes to Marshall as well.

[Cdizzle]

Marshall rated as #8 coach in the country based on recent performance:
http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/ ... g-marshall

This is actually probably a little bit low based on the criteria of the list (heavy on recent performance), but if you consider the names that will be above him it's not hard see why the media voted him here.

3-YR History
Record: 93-16 (85.3%)
Road: 29-6 (82.9%)
Conf: 46-8 (85.2%) (52-10, 83.4% w/ Conf. Tourney games incl.)
2 MVC Conference Titles (1 by 2 games, 1 by 6 games, finished 2nd by 1 game in other year)
1 MVC Tournament Title
3 NCAA Tournament Appearances (Average Seed of 5)
1 NCAA Tournament Regional Championship
Cancun Tournament Championship
CBE Tournament Championship
3-time MVC COY
2014 National COY by every publication ever
1st Undefeated Regular season since 2004
1st Undefeated Pre-NCAA Tournament season since 1991

Record vs
RPI
1-50 12 8
51-100 19 6
101-200 40 2
201+ 19 0


Just a note, as I find breakdowns like this fun to look at for all players/coaches/teams.... For any team planning on challenging WSU for 1st place next year, consider that WSU has averaged less than 3 losses per year in the league over the last 3 years. It goes up to exactly 3 losses per year if you go back another year.

Only one team has won the league with 5 losses (CU in 2013) in the past 13 years (readily available data). Generally, you need to take on 3 or fewer losses to win the league.

Losses of league champion, by occurrence:
0: 1
1: 1
2: 2
3: 6
4: 2
5: 1