The Big East Conference Baseball Coaching Staff of the Year award is presented annually to the conference's most outstanding coaching staff, as voted by the conference's head coaches at the end of each regular season.

The award was Big East Conference Baseball Coach of the Year, honoring only the head coach, from the first season of Big East Conference baseball in 1985 through the 2015 season. Starting with the 2016 season, the award was renamed the "Coaching Staff of the Year" award, honoring an entire staff. While the "Big East" name has been used by two separate conferences—the original Big East, which operated from 1979 to 2013, and the current Big East, formed when the original conference split in 2013—the current Big East claims the baseball history of the original conference.

The Big East is the only NCAA Division I baseball conference that presents an annual coaching award to an entire staff instead of only the head coach, although the head coach is cited by name in the award announcement.

In the 2014 season, Creighton's Ed Servais won the new conference's inaugural award. Creighton had a 30–16 (14–4 Big East) regular season to win the conference title. Since the formation of the current Big East, all but three of the honorees have won at least a share of the conference's regular season title, although two recent awards (2022 and 2023) were won by teams that finished outside the top two in the conference. From 1999 to 2006, by contrast, only two regular-season champions won the award.

Ed Blankmeyer of St. John's has won the award a record six times as an individual, and is one of two head coaches, along with Servais, to have been part of an honored staff twice. This includes back-to-back awards twice—individually in 2007 and 2008 and as part of the staff in 2017 and 2018, a feat matched only by his Red Storm predecessor Joe Russo (1990 and 1991) and UConn's Jim Penders (2010 and 2011). Blankmeyer, Penders, and Servais are the only head coaches to have won the award as individuals and as part of an honored staff; Penders has three individual awards and one staff award, while Servais has one individual award and two staff awards.

Providence is the only school to have three coaches win the award (Don Mezzanotte in 1986, Paul Kostacopoulos in 1995, and Charlie Hickey in 1999). Three other schools had multiple coaches win the award before 2016: St. John's (Russo and Blankmeyer), UConn (Andy Baylock and Penders), and Pittsburgh (Mark Jackson and Joe Jordano).

Winners By season Coach of the Year SeasonCoachSchoolConf. (Rk.)Overall 1985 Mike Sheppard Seton Hall 15–3 (1st, South) 44–19–1 1986 Don Mezzanotte Providence 11–7 (T-1st, North) 28–23 1987 Mike Sheppard (2) Seton Hall 16–2 (1st, South) 45–10 1988 George Bennett Villanova 16–2 (1st, South) 32–22 1989 Mike Sheppard (3) Seton Hall 16–2 (1st, South) 33–19–1 1990 Joe Russo St. John's 15–6 (2nd) 29–18 1991 Joe Russo (2) St. John's 18–2 (1st) 34–14–1 1992 Andy Baylock UConn 13–7 (3rd) 25–20–1 1993 George Bennett (2) Villanova 14–7 (1st) 27–15–1 1994 Mark Jackson Pittsburgh 16–5 (1st) 31–16 1995 Paul Kostacopoulos Providence 16–5 (1st) 44–15 1996 Ed Blankmeyer St. John's 14–10 (3rd, American) 26–18 1997 Greg Van Zant West Virginia 17–7 (1st, American) 36–19 1998 Fred Hill Rutgers 17–3 (1st) 33–16 1999 Charlie Hickey Providence 18–8 (3rd) 49–16 2000 Pete Hughes Boston College 12–11 (5th) 35–20 2001 Paul Mainieri Notre Dame 22–4 (1st) 49–13 2002 Pete Hughes (2) Boston College 15–11 (T-3rd) 30–25 2003 Greg Van Zant (2) West Virginia 18–6 (2nd) 36–19 2004 Joe Jordano Pittsburgh 17–9 (T-2nd) 38–18 2005 Ed Blankmeyer (2) St. John's 19–4 (1st) 41–18 2006 Jim Penders UConn 18–6 (2nd) 39–18–1 2007 Ed Blankmeyer (3) St. John's 20–7 (T-1st) 41–19 2008 Ed Blankmeyer (4) St. John's 20–7 (1st) 42–16 2009 Lelo Prado South Florida 18–9 (2nd) 34–25 2010 Jim Penders (2) UConn 20–6 (2nd) 48–16 2011 Jim Penders (3) UConn 22–5 (1st) 45–20 2012 Ed Blankmeyer (5) St. John's 18–9 (T-1st) 40–23 2013 Joe Jordano (2) Pittsburgh 18–6 (T-2nd) 42–17 2014 Ed Servais Creighton 14–4 (1st) 32–17 2015 Ed Blankmeyer (6) St. John's 14–3 (1st) 41–16

Coaching Staff of the Year Season School Head coach Conf. (Rk.) Overall 2016 Xavier Scott Googins 14–4 (1st) 30–28 2017 St. John's Ed Blankmeyer (7) 13–5 (2nd) 42–13 2018 St. John's (2) Ed Blankmeyer (8) 15–3 (1st) 38–14 2019 Creighton Ed Servais (2) 14–4 (1st) 41–12 2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 UConn Jim Penders (4) 13–4 (1st) 30–16 2022 Georgetown Edwin Thompson 11–10 (4th) 32–24 2023 Seton Hall Rob Sheppard 13–8 (3rd) 31–24 2024 St. John's (3) Mike Hampton 14–7 (2nd) 34–16–12025Creighton (2)Ed Servais (3)17–4 (1st)2026St. John's (4)Mike Hampton (2)15–6 (1st) 30–24

By school The following is a table of the schools whose coaches or coaching staffs have won the award, along with the year each school joined the conference, the number of times it has won the award, and the years in which it has done so.

All years reflect baseball seasons. For schools that joined the Big East after it first sponsored baseball, the first season of play takes place in the calendar year after officially joining the conference.

School (year joined)Total awardsSeasons (individual) Seasons (staff) St. John's (1985) 12 1990, 1991, 1996, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2015 2017, 2018, 2024, 2026 UConn (1985/2021) 5 1992, 2006, 2010, 2011 2021 Seton Hall (1985) 4 1985, 1987, 1989 2023 Creighton (2014) 3 2014 2019, 2025 Pittsburgh (1985) 3 1994, 2004, 2013 — Providence (1985) 3 1986, 1995, 1999 — Boston College (1985) 2 2000, 2002 — Villanova (1985) 2 1988, 1993 — West Virginia (1996) 2 1997, 2003 — Georgetown (1985) 1 — 2022 Notre Dame (1996) 1 2001 — Rutgers (1996) 1 1998 — South Florida (2006) 1 2009 — Xavier (2014) 1 — 2016

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