ST. LOUIS --- UNI head men's basketball coach Ben Jacobson has been named the Missouri Valley Conference's (MVC) Coach of the Year, as announced by the league office on Thursday.
In his 16th season at the helm of the UNI program, Jacobson becomes the first coach in MVC history to earn Coach of the Year honors five times (2009, 2010, 2015, 2020), breaking a tie with Maury John of Drake. It is also the sixth time a UNI coach has earned the honor since joining the league in 1991-92, as Eldon Miller was named Coach of the Year in 1996-97.