University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Cronin Named NABC District 19 Coach of the Year
March 23, 2020 | Men's Basketball
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – UCLA's Mick Cronin has secured the NABC District 19 Coach of the Year Award, as announced Monday morning by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
This marks the second coaching award that Cronin has earned in 2019-20, his first season as The Michael Price Family UCLA Men's Head Basketball Coach. Cronin was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year on Monday, March 9. He has been named the NABC's District Coach of the Year for the first time since 2014, when he earned District 25 honors as the head coach at Cincinnati.
Cronin, UCLA's first-year head coach, helped the Bruins engineer a remarkable turnaround during Pac-12 play. With UCLA tied for 11th place in the Pac-12 standings in the middle of January, along with Utah and Arizona State, the Bruins won 11 of their next 14 games. UCLA finished in second place in the league standings.
Cronin completed his 17th season as a head coach and has now recorded more victories at the NCAA Division I level (384) than any other active head coach, under the age of 50.
The NABC's All-District 19 Team included five first-team selections and five second-team selections. The first-team selections included Oregon's Payton Pritchard, Oregon State's Tres Tinkle, Colorado's McKinley Wright IV, Arizona State's Remy Martin and Arizona's Zeke Nnaji. The second-team selections were Washington's Isaiah Stewart, USC's Onyeka Okongwu, Washington State's CJ Elleby, Colorado's Tyler Bey and Stanford's Oscar da Silva.
UCLA concluded the 2019-20 season with a 19-12 record and a 12-6 mark in Pac-12 play.
