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The Lou Henson Award is an award given annually by ''CollegeInsider.com'' to the most outstanding mid-major men's college basketball player in NCAA Division I competition. The award, established in 2010, is named for legendary Illinois Fighting Illini head coach Lou Henson. Henson, who also coached at Hardin-Simmons and New Mexico State, compiled 779 all-time wins.〔 He is in the top 10 of NCAA coaching wins in men's basketball history. ==Background== At the same time the Henson Award was established, ''CollegeInsider.com'' also created the Lou Henson All-America Team, consisting of the 30 players that its selection committee deems to be the top Division I mid-major players. Unlike most other All-America teams in basketball and other sports, the Henson All-America Team is not divided into different grades (e.g., first team, second team, third team, honorable mention)—all players are treated equally as All-Americans.〔 Starting with the 2011–12 season, the number of Henson All-Americans was reduced to 25. This coincided with the decision of ''CollegeInsider.com'' to establish a Lute Olson All-America Team in conjunction with its Lute Olson Award for the top player who has played at least two years at his current school. The Olson All-America Team also has 25 members; unlike the Olson or Henson Awards, the team is open to all players regardless of their year of attendance or conference affiliation. Players on the Olson All-America team, even if they come from mid-major schools, are not eligible for the Henson Award. Definitions of the term "mid-major" in the context of college basketball vary widely. For purposes of both the Henson All-America Team and Henson Award, ''CollegeInsider.com'' has established its own definition of the term, which includes the following conferences, as well as any basketball independents (the only such school is currently NJIT):〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Men's Mid-Major Top 25 )〕 * America East Conference * Atlantic Sun Conference * Big Sky Conference * Big South Conference * Big West Conference * Colonial Athletic Association * Horizon League * Ivy League * Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference * Mid-American Conference * Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference * Missouri Valley Conference * Northeast Conference * Ohio Valley Conference * Patriot League * Southern Conference * Southland Conference * Southwestern Athletic Conference * The Summit League * Sun Belt Conference * West Coast Conference * Western Athletic Conference The list of eligible conferences has always excluded all conferences that sponsor FBS football except for the MAC and the Sun Belt. The Atlantic 10 Conference, which has not sponsored football at all since 2006, has also been excluded throughout the award's history.〔 Note that this source lists the conferences whose players are eligible for the award.〕 Following major conference realignment that peaked in 2013, the WAC, which dropped football after the 2012 season, was added to the eligible list, while both offshoots of the original Big East Conference—the FBS American Athletic Conference and the new non-football Big East—were excluded from eligibility 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lou Henson Award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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