BOSTON, Mass. -- The finalists for the 2017 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award were announced on Monday and CSU Bakersfield's Rod Barnes was honored as one of 20 coaches on the list.

The Jim Phelan award is presented annually to the top coach in division I men's basketball. Phelan led the Mountaineers to the 1962 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. When he retired in 2003, after coaching for 49 years, he had amassed 830 wins (overall record of 830-524) in all divisions. In those 49 years, 19 of his teams amassed 20 or more wins in a season.

The recipient of the 2017 Phelan award will be announced in Phoenix, Ariz., site of the men's NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.

Barnes led his alma mater Ole Miss to the Sweet 16 in the 2001 NCAA Tournament. The same year, he was named SEC Coach of the Year and Naismith National Coach of the Year. Fast forward to his time in Bakersfield, Barnes led CSUB to its first-ever Division I NCAA Tournament in 2016 and has his 'Runners in the semifinals of the National Invitational Tournament this week after winning the regular season Western Athletic Conference title.

THE 2017 JIM PHELAN AWARD FINALISTS

Steve Alford                 UCLA

Dana Altman                 Oregon

Rod Barnes                   CSU Bakersfield

John Becker                  Vermont

John Calipari                 Kentucky

Chris Collins                 Northwestern

Kermit Davis                 Middle Tennessee

Johnny Dawkins            UCF

Jamie Dixon                  TCU

Mark Few                      Gonzaga

Mitch Henderson           Princeton

Chris Holtmann             Butler

Kevin Keatts                 UNC Wilmington

Frank Martin                  South Carolina

Matt Painter                  Purdue

Josh Pastner                 Georgia Tech

Richard Pitino               Minnesota

Bill Self                         Kansas

Mike White                    Florida

Roy Williams                 North Carolina

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