Jerry Stackhouse Named 2023 Ben Jobe National Coach Of The Year

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Jerry Stackhouse. Photo: Courtesy of Vanderbilt Athletics

Vanderbilt men’s basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse has been named the recipient of the 2023 Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year award.

Picked to finished 12th in the Southeastern Conference, Stackhouse led Vanderbilt to 22 wins, the most since the 2010-2011 season. The Commodores also won 14 home games, their most since the 2014-2015 season and finished tied for 4th place in the SEC.

“It has been very impressive to watch Coach Stackhouse have success in perhaps the toughest and deepest conference in college basketball,” says Angela Lento, Vice President of CollegeInsider.com. “Vanderbilt played its’ best basketball over the final six weeks and turned in the best season in over a decade. There were a lot of doubters when he was hired, but winning has a way of silencing that.”

Vanderbilt played their best basketball at the end of the season, going 12-2 over the final month-plus of the regular season. The Commodores beat nationally ranked Kentucky twice in a 10-day stretch in March, including a road win at Lexington in UK’s final home game of the season. Vandy advanced to the semifinals of the SEC Tournament, for the first time since 2017, and made their second straight appearance in the NIT advancing to the quarterfinals.

The 2023 SEC Coach of the Year, Stackhouse is the first Vanderbilt coach to win that honor since 2010.

The Ben Jobe Award is named in honor of one the most iconic coaches in basketball at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He is best known as the Head Coach of the Southern University, a position he held for 12 seasons. He was also Head Coach at Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Talladega, Tuskegee and South Carolina State.

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