Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year

Key

Winners

Winners by current member schools

Footnotes

• Oklahoma A&M University, now Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, left in 1956.
• Bradley University and Drake University left the MVC during the 1951–52 school year in protest over the Johnny Bright incident, a racially motivated attack by a white Oklahoma A&M football player against Drake's black star Johnny Bright. Bradley returned to the conference in 1955, with Drake doing the same a year later.
• Saint Louis University left in 1974.
• The University of Tulsa left in 1996.
• The University of Houston left in 1959.
• The University of Cincinnati left in 1970.
• Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, left in 1973.
• The University of Louisville left in 1975.
• New Mexico State University left in 1983.
• West Texas State University, now West Texas A&M University, left in 1985.
• Creighton University left in 2013.
• Wichita State University left in 2017.