American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year

American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year
Awarded for	The most outstanding basketball coach in the American Athletic Conference
Country	United States
History
First award	2014
Most recent	Amir Abdur-Rahim, South Florida

The American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is a basketball award given to the American Athletic Conference's most outstanding head coach. The conference formed in 2013–14 after many schools departed from the original Big East Conference to form their own conference. Mick Cronin of Cincinnati was the first-ever winner.^[1]

Key

	Awarded one of the following National Coach of the Year awards that year: Associated Press Coach of the Year (AP) Adolph Rupp Cup (ARC) Basketball Times Coach of the Year (BT) CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year (CBS) Naismith Coach of the Year (N) NABC Coach of the Year (NABC) Sporting News Coach of the Year (SN) U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)
Coach (X)	Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point
*	Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach but is no longer active
*^	Active coach who has been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame (as a coach)
Conf. W–L	Conference win–loss record for that season
Conf. St.^T	Conference standing at year's end (^Tdenotes a tie)
Overall W–L	Overall win–loss record for that season
Season^‡	Team won the NCAA Division I National Championship

Winners

Season	Player	School	National Coach of the Year Awards	Conf. W–L	Conf. St.	Overall W–L	Ref.
2013–14	Mick Cronin	Cincinnati	—	15–3	1st^T	27–7	^[1]
2014–15	Fran Dunphy	Temple	—	13–5	3rd^T	26–11	^[2]
2015–16	Fran Dunphy (2)	Temple	—	14–4	1st	21–12	^[3]
2016–17	Tim Jankovich	SMU	—	17–1	1st	30–5	^[4]
2017–18	Kelvin Sampson	Houston	—	14–4	2nd^T	27–8	^[5]
2018–19	Kelvin Sampson (2)	Houston	—	16–2	1st	33–4	^[6]
2019–20	Frank Haith	Tulsa	—	13–5	1st^T	21–10	^[7]
2020–21	Isaac Brown	Wichita State	—	11–2	1st	16–6	^[8]
2021–22	Kelvin Sampson (3)	Houston	—	15–3	1st	32–6	^[9]
2022–23	Kelvin Sampson (4)	Houston	—	17–1	1st	33–4	^[10]
2023–24	Amir Abdur-Rahim	South Florida	—	16–2	1st	25–8	^[11]

Winners by school

In this table, the "year joined" reflects the calendar year when each school joined the conference. The "Years" column reflects the calendar year in which each award was presented.

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Houston (2013)^{[a 1]}	4	2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
Temple (2013)	2	2015, 2016
Cincinnati (2013)^{[a 1]}	1	2014
SMU (2013)	1	2017
Tulsa (2014)	1	2020
Wichita State (2017)	1	2021
South Florida (2013)	1	2024
East Carolina (2014)	0	—
Louisville (2013)^{[a 2]}	0	—
Memphis (2013)	0	—
Rutgers (2013)^{[a 2]}	0	—
Tulane (2014)	0	—
UCF (2013)^{[a 1]}	0	—
UConn (2013)^{[a 3]}	0	—

^ ^a ^b ^c Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF left The American after the 2022–23 season to join the current Big 12 Conference.^[12]
^ ^a ^b Louisville and Rutgers played only the 2013–14 season in The American. In July 2014, they respectively left for the ACC^[13] and Big Ten.^[14]
^ UConn left The American after the 2019–20 season to join the current Big East Conference.^[15]