INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Wofford College men’s basketball head coach Mike Young has been named the 2010 Hugh Durham Mid-Major Coach of the Year as presented by collegeinsider.com. The award, which is voted on by a 20-member selection panel that includes current and former head coaches and is chaired by Hugh Durham, is presented annually at the Final Four to the top mid-major coach in the country.

Young, in his eighth season at the helm of the Wofford program, took the Terriers to new heights in 2009-10, with a 26-9 overall record and a 15-3 league mark. The overall record includes wins over South Carolina and Georgia.

The team earned the SoCon South Division title and also won the Southern Conference Tournament Championship, both of which were firsts for the school which joined the SoCon for the 1997-98 season. The team faced Wisconsin as a #13 seed in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Young was also named the 2010 Southern Conference Coach of the Year and a finalist for the 2010 Skip Prosser Award.

The other finalists were Randy Bennett (St. Mary’s), Tad Boyle (Northern Colorado), Todd Bozeman (Morgan State), Steve Donahue (Cornell), Cliff Ellis (Coastal Carolina), Ben Jacobson (Northern Iowa), Greg Kampe (Oakland), Billy Kennedy (Murray State), Bob Marlin (Sam Houston State), Fran McCaffery (Siena), Randy Rahe (Weber State), Tony Shaver (William & Mary), Brad Stevens (Butler) and Blaine Taylor (Old Dominion).


In the other collegeinsider.com awards, junior Noah Dahlman was named to the 2010 Lou Henson All-America Team. Players honored were from the following conferences: America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Great West, Horizon, Independents, Ivy, Metro Atlantic, Mid-American, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Southwestern, Summit, Sun Belt, West Coast.