SEATTLE – University of Washington head coach Mike Hopkins has been named the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 20 Coach of the Year, the NABC announced Wednesday. It is the second coach of the year honor for Hopkins who was also named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year earlier this month.

Hopkins, in his first season at Washington, led the Huskies to a 21-13 record, UW’s 29th 20-win season in program history. Additionally, UW made a huge jump in wins after finishing 9-22 a year ago, its largest move between seasons since 1936-37 and 1938 when UW went from 15-11 to 29-7 the following year. Washington also went from 2-16 to 10-8 in Pac-12 play which is its biggest jump (eight wins more) in conference play in UW history. The Huskies advanced to the second round of the NIT, making their 26th postseason appearance in program history.

Additionally, Hopkins coached the programs first ever Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in Matisse Thybulle, the first Husky forward to earn All-Pac-12 First Team honors in Noah Dickerson and an All-Pac-12 Freshman Team selection in Jaylen Nowell. It was the first time three Dawgs earned all-conference honors since 2011-12.

During the season, Washington defeated three ranked opponents in No. 2 Kansas on the road, No. 9 Arizona and No. 25 Arizona State and its 10 non-conference wins tied its most since the 2005-06 season.

With his Pac-12 Coach of the Year award, he became just the sixth Pac-12 Coach to earn the honor in their first year at their university joining Stanford’s Dick DiBiaso (1976), UCLA’s Gary Cunningham (1978), Oregon State’s Jim Anderson (1990), California’s Ben Braun (1997) and Washington State’s Tony Bennett (2007).

2018 NABC ALL-DISTRICT COACHES FOR NCAA DIVISION I
District 1 – John Becker, Vermont / Kevin Baggett, Rider
District 2 – Tony Bennett, Virginia
District 3 – Mike Jones, Radford
District 4 – Dan Hurley, Rhode Island
District 5 – Chris Mack, Xavier
District 6 – Travis DeCuire, Montana
District 7 – Chris Holtmann, Ohio State
District 8 – Bill Self, Kansas
District 9 – Mark Few, Gonzaga
District 10 – Bill Coen, Northeastern
District 11 – Steve Henson, UTSA
District 12 – Scott Nagy, Wright State
District 13 – Steve Donahue, Penn
District 14 – Nate Oats, Buffalo
District 15 – Jay Joyner, North Carolina A&T
District 16 – Porter Moser, Loyola Chicago
District 17 – Eric Musselman, Nevada
District 18 – Bashir Mason, Wagner
District 19 – Matt McMahon, Murray State
District 20 – Mike Hopkins, Washington
District 21 – Rick Barnes, Tennessee
District 22 – Wes Miller, UNCG
District 23 – Donte Jackson, Grambling
District 24 – Bob Marlin, Louisiana
District 25 – Kelvin Sampson, Houston