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SKIP
PROSSER MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD |
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April 4, 2008 |
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OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
SkipProsserAward.com
PRESS RELEASE:
2008 Prosser Award
Finalists
PRESS RELEASE:
Award Established
THE AWARD:
Download the 2008
Award
BIOGRAPHY:
Skip Prosser Bio
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 BOSTON
(MA) -- After leading Notre Dame to another
outstanding campaign, Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey
has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural
Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award.
“This is an amazing honor and I am extremely flattered
to receive the first Skip Prosser Award,” says Brey.
“It is so important to remember Skip and the way he
carried himself as a coach. He was the type of man you
wanted your son to play for. He embodied everything
that is good about college basketball.”
The award, which is named in memory of former Wake
Forest head coach Skip Prosser who passed away
suddenly on July 26, 2007, will be given annually to
the division I head coach who best represent the high
standards of the coaching profession. Winning with
integrity.
The Skip Prosser Award is voted on by a 21-member
selection panel, which includes current and former
head coaches, athletic administrators and media
members, including ESPN analyst and longtime friend,
Jay Bilas.
“This award is the perfect way to honor Skip and the
principles he lived every day, and to honor the
coaches that share those values and live them every
day,” Bilas says. “He respected the game and all that
played it, and always had things in the proper
perspective. Skip Prosser was one of the good guys,
and he would be the first to say that he was not alone
there.”
Picked ninth in the Big East, Brey led Notre Dame to a
second place finish with a 14-4 conference record.
That 14 conference wins are the most for the Irish
since joining the Big East (1995-96). Overall, Notre
Dame finished 25-8, which was one victory short of the
school record for wins set in 1973-74, when they went
26-3.
Notre Dame closed out the 2007-08 regular season by
winning 11 of its final 13 games and finished with 24
regular-season victories, the most regular-season wins
by an Irish team under Brey and most since 1973-74
(24-5 regular season). This season the Irish advanced
to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the
first time since 2003.
This Notre Dame was once again very impressive at
home. The Irish finished 17-0 at home this season and
ran their Joyce Center home win streak to 37 games,
the second longest active streak nationally and just
one shy of the school's all-time home win streak. The
Irish also have won 18 consecutive Big East games at
the Joyce Center, a mark that that is just two shy of
the conference's all-time home court win streak (20
games held by Pittsburgh).
Brey’s team made Big East history this season when
they completed their second straight season undefeated
at home. It marked the first time in the 40-year
history of the Joyce Center that an Irish team has
been undefeated at home in consecutive campaigns and
the first time in conference history that a Big East
team has gone undefeated at home in back to-back
seasons.
 With
25 wins the Irish have reached the 20-win mark for the
fifth time in eight seasons and second consecutive
year under head coach Mike Brey.
Brey is in his eighth season as the Irish head coach
and owns a 166-85 record.
“We could not be more excited to have coach Brey win
the inaugural Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award, says
Mark Prosser, an assistant at Bucknell University and
son of the late Skip Prosser. “Coach Brey is a man of
great integrity that continues to succeed with student
athletes that conduct themselves with high moral
character, and it just so happens that he was a great
friend of my father. We are truly honored to have
coach Mike Brey accept this award.”
Brey was one of ten finalists for the award, which
include Rick Byrd (Belmont), Seth Greenberg (Virginia
Tech), Frank Haith (Miami), Trent Johnson (Stanford),
Bob McKillop (Davidson), Sean Miller (Xavier), Matt
Painter (Purdue), Bo Ryan (Wisconsin) and Gary Waters
(Cleveland State).
The Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award was established
by CollegeInsider.com and the Prosser family.
www.SkipProsserAward.com
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