CHARLESTON, S.C. After earning several Coach of the Year honors and leading his team to the best season in program history, Bulldog Head Coach Ed Conroy has picked up another award to add to his collection. Conroy was selected as the recipient of the 2009 Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award, announced Friday by CollegeInsider.com.

The Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award is given annually to the Division I head coach who best represents the high standards of the coaching profession, which is winning with integrity. The award is named in memory of former Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser who passed away suddenly on July 26, 2007.

“I am flattered and humbled to receive the second Skip Prosser Man of the Year award,” said Conroy. “To be mentioned in any way with Skip Prosser is an amazing honor. The award is a great way to honor and remember what Skip stood for: his ability to teach, his perspective, his priorities and most importantly, the way he valued his relationships with his players and everyone he came in contact with. As soon as you met Skip for the first time, you knew you were in the presence of a friend.”

Conroy was given the award in Detroit at the Final Four, where he was presented with the award by Notre Dame Head Coach Mike Brey, who was the recipient of the inaugural award in 2008. The award was established by CollegeInsider.com and the Prosser family.

He was one of 12 finalists for the award. The other finalists included Connecticut's Jim Calhoun, Oklahoma's Jeff Capel, Penn State's Ed DeChellis, Pittsburgh's Jamie Dixon, Wake Forest's Dino Gaudio, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, LSU's Trent Johnson, UNLV's Lon Kruger, Navy's Billy Lange, Utah State's Stew Morrill and Illinois' Bruce Weber.

In his third year as head coach of the Bulldogs, Conroy racked up a list of honors after leading his team to the most magical season in program history. Locally, he was named the 2009 Southern Conference Coach of the Year by the media and the coaches after recording a 20-13 record.

Nationally, he was named the 2009 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) District 22 Coach of the Year and was one of 10 finalists for the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year Award. CollegeInsider.com named him the Southern Conference Coach of the Year.

The Bulldogs recorded the best improvement nationally in regular season record, winning 14 more games than last season. He led the Bulldogs to the program's first-ever postseason appearance when they participated in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.

With Conroy at the helm, the Bulldogs recorded the program's second 20-win season and they claimed the most conference victories in the program history with a 15-5 conference record. Along with those 20 victories, his team won the most Division I games in school history. Conroy's team posted the largest one-year turnaround in Southern Conference and program history.

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