April 4, 2024

2COLORADO STATE’S NIKO MEDVED RECIPIENT OF THE 2024 PROSSER AWARD
Honors those who achieve success on and off the basketball court

PHOENIX, AZ -- Colorado State’s Niko Medved is the recipient of the 2023-24 Skip Prosser Man of the Year award, which is presented annually the division I coach who wins with integrity on and off the court.

Medved, 51, has won 54.6 percent of games during his 11 years as a Division I head coach, building successful programs at Furman, Drake, and Colorado State.

This season, he led the Rams to a 25-11 victory and a berth in the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years. Prior to his arrival in Fort Collins, the Rams last participated in the NCAA field in 2013.

"Niko Medved embodies everything the Skip Prosser award is about," said Dave Calloway, Executive member of CollegeInsider.com and Monmouth University Hall of Famer. "Coaching is about much more than just Xs and Os. It’s about teaching, building relationships and preparing young men for a life after basketball. Coach Medved has won at every stop, and he has won with class and integrity."

The Skip Prosser Man of the Year award honors those who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who display moral integrity on and off it as well.

In six years with the Deacons, Prosser posted a 126-68 record. For his career, he was 291-146 in 14 seasons including six as the head coach at Xavier and one year at Loyola (Md.).

At Wake Forest, Prosser's teams averaged 21 wins per season while playing in arguably the nation's most difficult league, the Atlantic Coast Conference. Prosser won 100 games at an ACC school quicker than all but two coaches in the 55-year history of the conference. He coached NBA stars Chris Paul and Josh Howard, led the Demon Deacons to the first No. 1 national ranking in school history and earned ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2003.

Prosser passed away of an apparent heart attack on July 26, 2007 in his office at Wake Forest. He had just returned from his morning jog.

The recipient of the annual award is determined by a 10-member voting committee, which consists of current and former head coaches, as well as two senior staff members of collegeinsider.com.

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