Draft:Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Coach of the Year

The Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Coach of the Year is a baseball award given to the Missouri Valley Conference's most outstanding coach. The first award was given after the 1977 season.

Awarded one of the following National Coach of the Year awards that year:

Collegiate Baseball Coach of the Year (CB)
Baseball America College Coach of the Year (BA)
The Sporting News College Baseball Coach of the Year (SN)

Coach (X) Denotes the number of times the coach had been awarded the Coach of the Year award at that point
Conf. W–L Conference win–loss record for that season
Conf. St.T Conference standing at year's end (Tdenotes a tie)
Overall W–L Overall win–loss record for that season
Team won the College World Series
Team won the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament
* Member of the National College Baseball Hall of Fame
^ Coach is active

Winners

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Season Coach School National Coach of
the Year Awards
Conf.
W–L
Conf.
St.
Overall
W–L
Ref.
1977 Itch Jones Southern Illinois SN 1st 41–12
1979 Bob Warn Indiana State 2nd 41–11
1980 Gene Stephenson* Wichita State 1st 53–12–1
1981 Itch Jones (2) Southern Illinois 7–1 1st (East) 30–17
1982 Gene Stephenson* (2) Wichita State BA 15–1 1st (West) 73–14
1983 Bob Warn (2) Indiana State 7–1 1st (East) 37–14–1
1984 Bob Warn (3) Indiana State 7–6 3rd 36–23–1
1985 Gene Stephenson* (3) Wichita State 15–5 1st 68–20
1986 Itch Jones (3) Southern Illinois 13–7 1st 39–22–2
1987 Gene Stephenson* (4) Wichita State 13–7 1st 59–20
1988 Gene Stephenson* (5) Wichita State 16–4 1st 56–16–1
1989 Gene Stephenson* (6) Wichita State 13–5 1st 68–15
1990
1991 Gene Stephenson* (7) Wichita State 21–3 1st 66–13
1992 Gene Stephenson* (8) Wichita State 18–3 1st 56–11
1993
1994 Gene Stephenson* (9) Wichita State 19–2 1st 45–17
1995
1996 Gene Stephenson* (10) Wichita State 24–4 1st 54–11
1997
1998 Gene Stephenson* (11) Wichita State 26–1 1st 56–7
2020 Season canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic, no awards given
2021 Dan Heefner^ (2) Dallas Baptist 18–6 1st 41–18
2022 Wes Carroll^ (2) Evansville 15–12 2nd 37–24
2023 Mitch Hannahs^ Indiana State 24–3 1st 45–17
2024 Mitch Hannahs^ (2) Indiana State 22–5 1st 44–15