The Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year is a basketball award given to the most outstanding men's basketball head coach in the Big 12 Conference, as chosen by a panel of sports writer
Roy Williams won the inaugural award in 1997 and then again in 2002.
Billy Gillispie won twice while at Texas A&M.
Bill Self
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Billy Eugene Self Jr. is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. Self has held various coaching roles at the collegiate level and has been the
Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year
…1996–97 season, the first year of the conference's existence, to Kansas Jayhawks head coach Roy Williams. As of 2025, current Kansas Jayhawks head coach Bill Self has won the award six times, leading the league. Four other head coaches have won the award twice. The voting finished in a tie in 2011–12, with Self…
Self coaching Jayhawks players during a timeout in 2009