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After leading the Miami RedHawks to an undefeated regular season, the awards are beginning to roll in for head coach Travis Steele.
On April 2, College Insider named Steele the 2026 John McLendon National Coach of the Year. The award is presented annually to the nation's top head coach across all levels of college basketball.
In Steele's fourth season at Miami, he led the RedHawks to perhaps their best season in school history. The RedHawks went 31-0 in the regular season, finishing the year with a program record 32 wins. Miami earned its first NCAA Tournament at-large appearance and Tournament win since 1999. Steele's RedHawks climbed as high as No. 19 in the AP Top 25 poll, the team's highest ranking since 1978.
The RedHawks set program records for the most consecutive home wins overall (31) and road wins overall (15). Miami secured the best start for a program in MAC history, the most consecutive conference wins in MAC history, and the longest win streak in MAC history. The RedHawks ended the year with a program-record 1,049 made field goals and scored a program-record 3,047 points while also setting new records for field goal percentage (51.7%) and most made free throws in a season (592).
Steele has already been named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I East District Coach of the Year, was the unanimous Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, and was a semifinalist for the 2026 Werner Ladder Naismith College Coach of the Year award.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Miami's Travis Steele College Insider National Coach of the Year 2026
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On April 2, College Insider named Steele the 2026 John McLendon National Coach of the Year. The award is presented annually to the nation's top head coach across all levels of college basketball.
In Steele's fourth season at Miami, he led the RedHawks to perhaps their best season in school history. The RedHawks went 31-0 in the regular season, finishing the year with a program record 32 wins. Miami earned its first NCAA Tournament at-large appearance and Tournament win since 1999. Steele's RedHawks climbed as high as No. 19 in the AP Top 25 poll, the team's highest ranking since 1978.
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The RedHawks set program records for the most consecutive home wins overall (31) and road wins overall (15). Miami secured the best start for a program in MAC history, the most consecutive conference wins in MAC history, and the longest win streak in MAC history. The RedHawks ended the year with a program-record 1,049 made field goals and scored a program-record 3,047 points while also setting new records for field goal percentage (51.7%) and most made free throws in a season (592).
Steele has already been named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I East District Coach of the Year, was the unanimous Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, and was a semifinalist for the 2026 Werner Ladder Naismith College Coach of the Year award.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Miami's Travis Steele College Insider National Coach of the Year 2026
Continue reading...
