Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Scalmanini A Finalist For National Coach Of The Year
Men's basketball coach Ken Scalmanini is one of the 10 finalists for the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year Award. Scalmanini led the Stags this season to a team record 25 wins (versus a team record low of three losses) and their fourth consecutive SCIAC title. CMS also won the SCIAC Tournament title for the third time in four years. The Stags, who opened the season with a team record 15 consecutive wins, lost in overtime to the defending national champions in the NCAA Championships.
Scalmanini, who just completed his 14th year as head coach, is 240-120 (.667) overall in his career. He is 145-51 (.740) in SCIAC play and his teams have won six SCIAC titles.
The Glenn Robinson Award, which is presented annually to the top
Division III basketball coach, is named in honor of the Franklin
& Marshall head coach. With 805 wins, Robinson is currently
twelfth on the all-time wins list. He has taken F&M to NCAA
Division III tournament 22 times. Robinson guided the Diplomats to
the Division III Final Four in 1979, 1991, 1996, 2000 and 2009.
This season, he picked up his 23rd 21-plus win season.
The winner will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com awards
banquet on March 30 in New Orleans, the site of the men's NCAA
Basketball Championship.
2012 GLENN ROBINSON AWARD FINALISTS
|
Larry Anderson |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Jeff Brown |
Middlebury College |
|
Ken DeWeese |
University of Mary Hardin Baylor |
|
David Hixon |
Amherst College |
|
Marcus Kahn |
Cabrini College |
|
Brian Lane |
Transylvania University |
|
Pat Miller |
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater |
|
Mitch Oliver |
Albertus Magnus College |
|
Matt Neil |
Hope College |
|
Ken Scalmanini |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
