UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year

The last winner was Gene Keady of Purdue, who led the Boilermakers to a 26–6 record and a berth into the 1996 NCAA tournament's second round.

UCLA claimed the most all-time winners with six (all of whom were John Wooden), followed by San Francisco with three.

Wooden garnered the most UPI Coach of the Year awards, receiving six throughout his tenure at UCLA.

Six other coaches received the award twice: Bob Knight, Ray Meyer, Adolph Rupp, Norm Stewart, Fred Taylor and Phil Woolpert.

The only coach whose team did not qualify for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was Miami (FL)'s Leonard Hamilton, who won the award in 1994–95 after leading the Hurricanes to the first round of the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).