Nate Oats
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Buffalo |
| Conference | MAC |
| Record | 37-29 (.561) |
| Annual salary | $352,614 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | October 13, 1974 |
| Playing career | |
| 1993–1997 | Maranatha Baptist |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1997–2000 | Maranatha Baptist (asst.) |
| 2000–2002 | Wisconsin–Whitewater (asst.) |
| 2002–2013 | Romulus HS |
| 2013–2015 | Buffalo (asst.) |
| 2015–present | Buffalo |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 37-29 (.561) |
| Tournaments | 0-1 |
Nathanael"Nate" Oats (born October 13, 1974) is an American basketball coach. He is currently the head basketball coach at the State University of New York at Buffalo, following two seasons as an assistant coach under Bobby Hurley. Oats was named head coach on April 11, 2015 after Hurley was hired by Arizona State as head coach. In only his first season as head coach, he took the Buffalo Bulls to their second straight NCAA Tournament bid after winning the Mid-American Conference Championship.
Oats grew up in Watertown, Wisconsin where he was a three-year starter on a high school basketball which went 24–0 in his senior year. He stayed in Watertown after high school, playing college basketball at Division-III Maranatha Baptist University. He was an all-conference player and served as a captain of the Crusaders while earning a Bachelor’s degree in Math Education. He subsequently received a Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in kinesiology and exercise science.
After finishing his playing career at Maranatha Baptist, Oats became a member of the team's coaching staff in 1997, where he remained until 2000. He then served as an assistant men's basketball coach for the Division-III University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. After the 2002 season, Oats left Wisconsin–Whitewater to become the head basketball coach and a teacher at Romulus High School in Detroit.
Over 11 years at Romulus, Oats accumulated a 222–52 record and reached the semifinals of the state tournament five times. In 2013, Oats led the team to a 27–1 record and a state Class A championship en route to winning multiple coach of the year honors from the local press. He won similar coaching awards in 2005, 2008 and 2009. While recruiting Romulus guard E.C. Matthews on behalf of Rhode Island in 2013, Bobby Hurley was impressed by Oats' coaching. Shortly thereafter, Hurley was named the head coach at Buffalo and hired Oats as an assistant on his staff.
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