Coach of the Year Award

[TennZip]

I saw this morning that the Clemson coach was selected as the national coach of the year.

That got me to wonder if Jared Embick had been selected as one of the 8 regional coaches of the year.

I found out that he had not been selected as one of the 8 regional coaches of the year

I suspected that Akron was considered either Great Lakes or Midwest....but I did not understand how a coach from a school in Elon, NC....could win the midwest coach of the year or how a coach from Georgetown could win the great lakes award

NCAA Division I

Region Name School East George Kiefer South Florida Far West Jeremy Gunn Stanford Great Lakes Brian Wiese Georgetown Midwest Chris Little Elon Northeast Charlie Inverso Rider South Mike Noonan Clemson Southeast Scott Calabrese Florida International West Peter Fewing Seattle

I had to go to the players all region teams to determine that Akron is in the great lakes region ....along with Creighton and Georgetown

http://www.nscaa.com/2015-nscaa-ncaa-division-i-men-s-all-great-lakes-region

you will see 2 akron players on the first team all region, 4 creighton players and 4 georgetown players ( I also find it implausible that Andrew Souders and Victor Souto did not make the top 33 in the region....but I am getting off track)

So, the Georgetown coach was selected over Jared Embick and the Creighton coach as the region coach of the year

http://www.nscaa.com/rankings/4159/NCAADivisionI/men/PreseasonPoll

I then went to the preseason poll to see how Akron compared to Clemson (national coach of the year) and Georgetown (region coach of the year).

Georgetown finished 2014 at #5 in the country. They were preseason #3 this year and they finished #8 this year. The regional awards were announced on Nov. 30 so the voters did not yet know that Akron would defeat Creighton on Dec. 5.

Akron was not in the top 25 at the end of last year. Akron was preseason #25 and ended this year at #3.

Clemson ended 2014 at #11 and was pre-season #11 this year. Of course, they ended at #2. Obviously, Coach Embick , the Georgetown coach and Creighton coach Elmer Bolowich are all great coaches and someone is going to get overlooked with the 3 of them being in the same region.

I was greatly impressed by the great coaching job done by coach Embick and his staff this year. Awards or not, Akron has a great, hard working, innovative coach No disrespect to the clemson coach or the Georgetown coach...but I just wanted to say Great job, Coach Embick.