Thad Matta
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Ohio State |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Record | 335–119 (.738) |
| Annual salary | $3,182,000 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 11, 1967 Hoopeston, Illinois |
| Playing career | |
| 1985–1986 | Southern Illinois |
| 1987–1990 | Butler |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1990–1991 | Indiana State (asst.) |
| 1991–1994 | Butler (asst.) |
| 1994–1995 | Miami (Ohio) (asst.) |
| 1995–1996 | Western Carolina (asst.) |
| 1996–1997 | Miami (Ohio) (asst.) |
| 1997–2000 | Butler (asst.) |
| 2000–2001 | Butler |
| 2001–2004 | Xavier |
| 2004–present | Ohio State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 437–150 (.744) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four (2007, 2012) 4× Big Ten Tournament Championship (2007, 2010, 2011, 2013) 5× Big Ten Regular Season Championship (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012) 2× Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship (2002, 2004) 2× Atlantic 10 Regular Season Championship (2002, 2003) Horizon League Tournament Championship (2001) Horizon League Regular Season Championship (2001) NIT Championship (2008) |
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| Awards | |
| Horizon League Coach of the Year (2001) Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2002) 3× Big Ten Coach of the Year (2006, 2007, 2010) |
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Thad Michael Matta (born July 11, 1967) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team. He was hired as the 13th head coach in Ohio State history on July 7, 2004 after the school had fired previous coach Jim O'Brien. He has posted 20 or more wins per season all throughout his career a head coach. On March 12, 2015, he set a school record for victories, winning his 298th game for OSU after defeating Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament.
Matta has led the Buckeyes to five Big Ten Conference regular season championships, four Big Ten Tournament titles (2007, 2010, 2011 and 2013), two Final Four appearances (2007 and 2012), and the 2008 NIT Championship.
A basketball standout for the Cornjerkers at Hoopeston-East Lynn High School in Hoopeston, Illinois, Matta was a two-year starter for the Butler University Bulldogs in three seasons after transferring from Southern Illinois University as a sophomore. He led Butler in assists (100) and three-point field goal percentage (.433) in 1987–88 and in free-throw percentage in 1988–89 (.872). He served as a team captain (one of the Butler tri-captains that year) on Barry Collier's first team in 1989–90 and finished his career in sixth place on Butler's all-time list for free-throw percentage (.800). He earned a B.S. degree from Butler in 1990. Matta enjoyed his Butler career-high point total of 21 points against Xavier University at the Cincinnati Gardens on March 2, 1989.
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