Virginia Tech men’s basketball head coach Mike Young is one of 15 coaches who has been named to the Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List as announced by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.
A Radford native, Young is in his second season in Blacksburg and is one of only two coaches out of the ACC named to the prestigious list. FSU’s Leonard Hamilton is the other.
Entering into the game on Tuesday night, Feb. 23, against Georgia Tech, the 18th-ranked Hokies were 14-4 overall, 8-3 in ACC play, and third in the conference standings with two weeks remaining in the regular season.
Tech has wins over four ranked wins this season, the most of any league team against ranked opponents: No. 3 Villanova, No. 24 Clemson, No. 19 Duke and No. 8 Virginia.
Young was named the 2019 Sporting News Coach of the Year after his Wofford Terriers went 30-5 and made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament his final season in Spartanburg.
In addition to Young and Hamilton, the coaches on the watch list are Casey Alexander (Belmont), Darian DeVries (Drake), Scott Drew (Baylor), Andy Enfield (USC), Mark Few (Gonzaga), Chris Holtmann (Ohio State), Juwan Howard (Michigan), Bob Huggins (West Virginia), Lon Kruger (Oklahoma), Porter Moser (Loyola-Chicago), Nate Oats (Alabama),
Kelvin Sampson (Houston), and Shaka Smart (Texas).
–VT Athletics
