Rose a Finalist for Skip Prosser Award

BOSTON (MA) — The fifteen finalists for the 2010 Skip Prosser Award were announced on Wednesday.

As of today, all of the finalists have led their respective teams to 18 or more victories this season and five of them – East Tennessee State’s Murry Bartow, Oakland’s Greg Kampe, Murray State’s Billy Kennedy, Butler’s Brad Stevens and Wofford’s Mike Young – have secured automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament by virtue of winning their conference tournaments.

The other finalists in this distinguished group are Northwestern’s Bill Carmody, Pittsburgh’s Jamie Dixon, Temple’s Fran Dunphy, Loyola Marymount’s Max Good, Xavier’s Chris Mack, Sam Houston State’s Bob Marlin, Utah State’s Stew Morrill, BYU’s Dave Rose, Vanderbilt’s Kevin Stallings and Maine’s Ted Woodward.

The Skip Prosser Award was established last year to honor recipients who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who display moral integrity off of it as well. Prosser posted a career record of 291-146 in 14 seasons as a head coach. During his time at Wake Forest, his teams averaged 21 wins per season while playing in arguably the nation’s most difficult league, the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Citadel’s Ed Conroy was the winner of the 2009 award and Notre Dame's Mike Brey won the inaugural award in 2008. This year’s award will be presented on April 2 in Indianapolis.

2010 SKIP PROSSER AWARD FINALISTS

Murry Bartow    East Tennessee State
Bill Carmody    Northwestern
Jamie Dixon     Pittsburgh
Fran Dunphy     Temple
Greg Kampe      Oakland
Billy Kennedy   Murray State
Chris Mack      Xavier
Bob Marlin      Sam Houston State
Stew Morrill    Utah State
Eric Reveno     Portland
Dave Rose       BYU
Kevin Stallings Vanderbilt
Brad Stevens    Butler
Mike Young      Wofford
Ted Woodward    Maine