Draft:Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Coach of the Year
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The Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Coach of the Year is a baseball award given to the Missouri Valley Conference's most outstanding coach. The first award was given after the 1977 season.
Key
| Awarded one of the following National Coach of the Year awards that year: Collegiate Baseball Coach of the Year (CB) | |
| Coach (X) | Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point |
| Conf. W–L | Conference win–loss record for that season |
| Conf. St.T | Conference standing at year's end (Tdenotes a tie) |
| Overall W–L | Overall win–loss record for that season |
| * | Member of the National College Baseball Hall of Fame |
|---|---|
| ^ | Coach is active |
| ‡ | Team won the College World Series |
| † | Team won the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament |
Winners
| Season | Coach | School | National Coach of the Year Awards |
Conf. W–L |
Conf. St. |
Overall W–L |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Itch Jones | Southern Illinois | SN | 1st† | 41–12 | ||
| 1979 | Bob Warn | Indiana State | 41–11 | ||||
| 1980 | Gene Stephenson* | Wichita State | 53–12–1 | ||||
| 1981 | Itch Jones (2) | Southern Illinois | 7–1 | 1st (East) | 30–17 | ||
| 1982 | Gene Stephenson* (2) | Wichita State | BA | 15–1 | 1st (West) | 73–14 | |
| 1983 | Bob Warn (2) | Indiana State | 7–1 | 1st (East) | 37–14–1 | ||
| 1984 | Bob Warn (3) | Indiana State | 7–6 | 3rd | 36–23–1 | ||
| 1985 | Gene Stephenson* (3) | Wichita State | 15–5 | 1st | 68–20 | ||
| 1986 | |||||||
| 1987 | Gene Stephenson* (4) | Wichita State | 13–7 | 1st | 59–20 | ||
| 1988 | Gene Stephenson* (5) | Wichita State | 16–4 | 1st | 56–16–1 | ||
| 1989‡ | Gene Stephenson* (6) | Wichita State | 13–5 | 1st | 68–15 | ||
| 1990 | |||||||
| 1991 | Gene Stephenson* (7) | Wichita State | 21–3 | 1st | 66–13 | ||
| 1992 | Gene Stephenson* (8) | Wichita State | 18–3 | 1st | 56–11 | ||
| 1993 | |||||||
| 1994 | Gene Stephenson* (9) | Wichita State | 19–2 | 1st | 45–17 | ||
| 1995 | |||||||
| 1996 | Gene Stephenson* (10) | Wichita State | 24–4 | 1st | 54–11 | ||
| 1997 | |||||||
| 1998 | Gene Stephenson* (11) | Wichita State | 26–1 | 1st | 56–7 | ||
| 2020 | Season canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic, no awards given | ||||||
| 2021 | Dan Heefner^ (2) | Dallas Baptist | 18–6 | 1st | 41–18 | ||
| 2022 | Wes Carroll^ (2) | Evansville | 15–12 | 2nd | 37–24 | ||
| 2023 | Mitch Hannahs^ | Indiana State | 24–3 | 1st | 45–17 | ||
| 2024 | Mitch Hannahs^ (2) | Indiana State | 22–5 | 1st | 44–15 | ||