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Rob Lanier Named Finalist for Ben Jobe Award

ATLANTA-Following a remarkable regular season where he led the Panthers to a Sun Belt Conference East Division title and the championship game of the conference tournament, Georgia State head coach Rob Lanier has been named a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award.
Rob Lanier and Ben Jobe
Rob Lanier and Ben Jobe

 
The Ben Jobe Award, which is presented annually to the top Division I minority coach, is named in honor of one of the finest men ever in college basketball.
 
Coach Jobe is an icon in the history of basketball at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He is best known as the head coach of the Southern University, a position he held for 12 seasons. He was also head coach at Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Talladega, Tuskegee and South Carolina State.
 
The finalists for the Ben Jobe Award include Mike Boynton (Oklahoma State), Wayne Brent (Jackson State), Kevin Broadus (Morgan State), Isaac Brown (Wichita State), Dana Ford (Missouri State), Dennis Gates (Cleveland State), Leonard Hamilton (Florida State), Lew Hill (UTRGV), Shaheen Holloway (Saint Peter's), Juwan Howard (Michigan) Stan Johnson (Loyola Marymount), Terrence Johnson (Texas State), Mike Jones (Radford), Robert Jones (Norfolk State), Will Jones (North Carolina A&T), Rob Lanier (Georgia State), Shantay Legans (Eastern Washington), Mike Magpayo (UC Riverside), Bashir Mason (Wagner), Ritchie McKay (Liberty), Lamont Paris (Chattanooga), Richie Riley (South Alabama), Kelvin Sampson (Houston), Shaka Smart (Texas), and Byron Smith (Prairie View A&M).
 
Lanier led the Panthers to a 16-6 record this past season while battling three stoppages in play due to COVID-19 contact tracing. Georgia State won its final six regular season games before winning both quarterfinal and semifinal games in the Sun Belt Conference Championship.
 
Lanier, now in his second year as head coach of the Panthers, has led Georgia State to a 35-19 record over those two seasons. Georgia State finished off the year with a school-record eighth-straight winning season and have now won 169 games since the start of the 2013-14 season, the most of any NCAA Division I school in the state of Georgia.
 
The recipient of the 2021 Ben Jobe National Coach of the Year award will be announced on April 1.
 
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