Mizzou men’s basketball head coach Frank Haith has been named Big 12 Coach of the Year by the Associated Press, as. Also, five Tigers earned spots on the AP All-Big 12 teams, highlighted by Marcus Denmon who was selected to the first team.Phil Pressey and Ricardo Ratliffe were each named to the All-Big 12 second team and Michael Dixon, Jr. and Kim Englishwere named to the All-Big 12 honorable mention team.
Haith, in his first year as head coach of the Tigers’, has guided the team to a regular season school record win total of 27 games against just four losses. He helped the Tigers earn three wins over top-10 teams and guided the Tigers to a 14-4 mark in Big 12 play, earning Mizzou second place in the league, which is its best finish in league play since 1998-99 when the team finished tied for second in the Big 12 with an 11-5 mark.