Wolff Named NABC District 1 Coach Of The Year

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) named Boston University head basketball coach Dennis Wolff District 1 Coach of the Year. The award recognizes the country's best men's collegiate basketball coaches.

This season, Wolff was named America East's Men's Basketball Coach of the Year. It was the second straight season, and third overall, that he earned the honor.

Currently in his 10th year at B.U., Wolff has led the 2003-04 Terriers to a 23-5 record and an invitation to the NIT to play the University of Rhode Island on Wednesday, March 17 at URI's Ryan Center at 7:30 p.m.

The NIT trip is the program's third straight post-season appearance, an unprecedented feat in the program's 95-year history. The Terriers finished the America East regular-season with a 17-1 record and the top seed in the conference tournament, but fell, 62-58, to eighth-seeded Stony Brook in the quarterfinals.

Wolff is 172-123 (.583) in his B.U. tenure. Overall, he is 202-141 (.589) in 12 years as a head coach.

Located in Overland Park, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, the legendary University of Kansas basketball coach. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently claims nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men's basketball coaches.

2004 NABC District Coaches of the Year

Coach	Institution	District
Dennis Wolff	Boston University	1
Bobby Gonzalez	Manhattan	2
Philip Martelli	St. Joseph's	3
Karl Hobbs	George Washington	4
Herb Sendek	North Carolina State	5
Rick Stansbury	Mississippi State	6
John Calipari	Memphis	7
Billy Kennedy	Southeastern Louisiana	8
Willis Wilson	Rice	9
Jim Christian	Kent State	10
Matt Painter	Southern Illinois	11
Eddie Sutton	Oklahoma State	12
Joe Scott	Air Force	13
Mike Montgomery	Stanford	14
Lute Olson	Arizona	15

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