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Show COACH OF THE YEAR The National Association of Basketball Coaches has chosen Don Monson of the University of Idaho as its Division I winner of the 1982 Kodak Coach of the Year award. Bobby Dye of California State College, Ba-kersfield Ba-kersfield and Mac Petty of Wabash College were winners of the Division II and Division Divi-sion III awards. All three had sensational years. Idaho was 27-3 and made it to the regionals of the NCAA Basketball championship cham-pionship for the first time in its history. Cal. State, Bakersfield was 25-6 and made it to the final four of the Division II National Championship. Wabash finished fin-ished 24-4 with a big 83-62 victory over Potsdam College for the Division III national championship. Monson seems very deserving de-serving of the honor. In just four short years, he has taken a team from perennial loser's status to a yearly contender for the Big Sky Conference chamnionshiD. |