San Marcos, Texas – Head men's basketball coach Doug Davalos was presented with the 2012 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Literacy Champion Award at the annual AT&T NABC Guardians of the Game Awards Show held on Sunday, April 1, 2012, at the New Orleans Theatre in the Ernest Morial Convention Center. 

Tim Brando, CBS television sports personality, was the host of the show, held during the annual NABC convention and the NCAA Final Four®.

The Literacy Champion Award recognizes a coach who has used the game of basketball, his program and his players to promote to children the importance of reading, writing and technological skills. The award acknowledges the coach whose teaching and leadership are generally thought to occur on the basketball court, but who uses his position to enhance literacy in children.

Awards Summary

Naismith Trophy, presented by AT&T – Anthony Davis, Kentucky

Spalding Pete Newell Big Man of the Year – Anthony Davis, Kentucky

NABC Defensive Player of the Year – Anthony Davis, Kentucky

NABC Coaches' Division I Player of the Year – Draymond Green, Michigan State

NABC Coaches' Division II Player of the Year – Braydon Hobbs, Bellarmine

NABC Coaches' Division III Player of the Year – Chris Davis, UW-Whitewater

UPS NABC Division I Coach of the Year – Tom Izzo, Michigan State

UPS NABC Division II Coach of the Year – Brad Jackson, Western Washington

UPS NABC Division III Coach of the Year – Pat Miller, UW-Whitewater

NABC/Hillyard Golden Anniversary Award – Rollie Massimino, Northwood (FL)

NABC Literacy Champion Award – Doug Davalos, Texas State

NABC Coaches vs. Cancer Champion Award – Lon Kruger, Oklahoma

NABC Guardians of the Game Pillar Awards

    Advocacy – Bill Brown, California (PA)

    Education – Mike McConathy, Northwestern State

    Leadership – Lorenzo Romar, Washington

    Service – Scott Nagy, South Dakota State

Metropolitan Award – Jim Nantz, CBS Sports

NABC Ray Marquette Award – Lennox Rawlings, Winston-Salem Journal
   (President, U.S. Basketball Writers Assn)

Newton S. Hillyard Award (Outgoing NABC President) – Ernie Kent