Prosser Award – Valley Coaches

Editor: The following is part of a press release from skipprosser.com.

THE 2023 AWARD FINALISTS

(Boston, MA) – The finalists for the 2022-23 Skip Prosser Man of the Year award were announced on Monday.

Missouri Valley Conference coaches Casey Alexander of Belmont, Indiana State’s Josh Schertz and conference regular season champion Bradley’s Brian Wardle are three of the twenty-five finalists. 

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

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 2023 award will be announced in March, in Houston site of the men’s NCAA Basketball Championship.

Former Southern Illinois (Carbondale) coach Matt Painter of Purdue is one of the finalists. Eastern Kentucky coach A.W. Hamilton joins the list. EKU was formerly an Ohio Valley Conference team.