Shouldn't Porter Moser be getting....

[tornado]

a little more talk for NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR?

"D1 Men's Basketball Coach of the Year Virginia's Tony Bennett and Loyola's Porter Moser are among the Coach of the Year candidates."


some have mentioned his name, but seriously - he is 25-1 when his lineup is able to play (Custer missed those other games with injury and only Bradley have beaten them since early January)

and he has gotten his team to the highest level of play and about as far into the tourney as any midmajor has gotten recently...
Obviously the major east & west coast media sites only think of him & Loyola as an oddity while throwing out names like Mike Krzyzewski (who gets a complete roster of 5-star talent and can't get to the Final Four), John Beilein, Rick Barnes, Bob Huggins, Andy Enfield (who did a fine job with what he had at USC but didn't even make the NCAA), and (puke) Bruce Pearl...

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2018/03/27/porter-moser-loyola-chicago-final-four-contract

[Dub]

He should absolutely be top 2-3 for coach of the year. I don't know the history on this, but my guess is that it will go to the tournament champion or runner up.

Honestly at this point, Loyola could realistically go to the championship game.

[tornado]

AP just awarded the National Coach of the Year Award to Virginia's Tony Bennett (who lost to a #16-seed and has never made it to a Final Four)
...voting took place BEFORE the NCAA Tournament by voters who largely had never seen nor knew a thing about Loyola...

[bradleyfan124]

AP just awarded the National Coach of the Year Award to Virginia's Tony Bennett (who lost to a #16-seed and has never made it to a Final Four)
...voting took place BEFORE the NCAA Tournament by voters who largely had never seen nor knew a thing about Loyola...

Shows you how much of a farce that voting is!!!

[Da Coach]

Tony Bennett probably deserves the award as much as anyone, especially when you consider the voting was done before the NCAA Tournament started. He took Virginia, which was not even ranked in the Top 25 in the preseason poll, and didn't even crack into the Top 25 until the 4th week of the season, and he took them to the #1 spot where they stayed for the last month of the season. Virginia was also picked 6th in the ACC preseason poll.

Plus, at the time of the voting, I suspect a big portion of the AP voters who voted for the AP Coach of the Year Award didn't even know who Porter Moser was, or who the coach of Loyola was. Going into the NCAA Tournament, Loyola wasn't ranked in the Top 25, although they were getting some votes. They were seeded lower than any at large team in the tournament, which means the selection committee wouldn't have had them rated high enough to get an at-large bid had another team won the MVC Tournament and gotten the automatic bid. So it's understandable that Porter Moser wouldn't get much support for this award.

Here are all the previous winners of the award. It has been won by a few midmajor coaches in recent years, including a couple from the MVC (Gregg Marshall in 2015 and Keno Davis in 2008 )-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press_College_Basketball_Coach_of_the_Year#Men's