Leon Rice (basketball)
Rice conducts a postgame interview in 2016.
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| Sport(s) | Men's basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Boise State |
| Conference | Mountain West |
| Record | 142–87 (.620) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 25, 1963 Richland, Washington |
| Alma mater | Washington State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1989–1992 | Oregon (asst.) |
| 1992–1994 | Northern Colorado (asst.) |
| 1996–1998 | Yakima Valley CC (asst.) |
| 1998–2010 | Gonzaga (asst.) |
| 2010–present | Boise State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 142–87 (.620) |
| Tournaments | 0–2 (NCAA) 1–1 (NIT) 2–1 (CBI) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| MW regular season (2015) | |
| Awards | |
| MW Coach of the Year (2015) | |
Leon Paul Rice (born November 25, 1963) is an American college basketball coach, and the head men's basketball coach at Boise State University. Rice replaced Greg Graham as head coach of the Broncos on March 26, 2010. In his first season as head coach, he led Boise State to the finals of the 2011 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament and to the semifinals of the 2011 College Basketball Invitational. He is the first Boise State head coach to win 20 games in two of his first three seasons and has 20 or more wins in six of his first seven seasons. In 2013, he guided the Broncos to their first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. In 2015, he led the Broncos to their first ever Mountain West regular season championship, and first conference title for Boise State since 2008, and was named the Mountain West coach of the year.
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion
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