Matt Painter
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| Date of birth | August 27, 1970 (age 36) | |
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| Place of birth | Muncie, Indiana | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| College | Purdue University | |
| Title | Head coach | |
| Record with Team | 31-31 | |
| Overall Record | 56-36 | |
| Awards | 2003-04 Missouri Valley Coach of the Year | |
| Championships won |
2004 Missouri Valley Championship | |
| School as a player | ||
| 1989-93 | Purdue University | |
| Position | Guard | |
| Coaching positions | ||
| 2003-04 2005-Present |
Southern Illinois University Purdue University |
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Matt Painter, also know as 'Porkchop' (born August 27, 1970 in Muncie, Indiana) is the men's basketball head coach at Purdue University.
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[edit] Playing Days
Matt Painter attended Delta High School in Muncie, Indiana, then afterwards attended Purdue University as an undergraduate. He played four seasons (1989-1993) of basketball as a Boilermaker for Gene Keady durng the early-mid ninetees, helping to lead the Boilermakers to three NCAA tournaments and one NIT appearance. Out of the 109 games in which he appeared, he started in 50 of them. In his senior season, he was selected captain of the team and was named a Big Ten Honorable Mention.
[edit] Coach Painter
After graduation from Purdue in 1993, Painter moved on to coaching basketball. His first year as a coach was an assistant coach position at Washington and Jefferson College. With his help, the team finished the season with a 22-3 record and an Elight Eight Appearance in the NCAA Division III tournament. He only coached at Washington and Jefferson for one year before heading to be an assistant coach at Barton College. In the 1994-95 season Barton finished with 13 wins and 13 losses. Again it was a one year stop before moving to Division I as an assistant coach at Eastern Illinois University.
[edit] Southern Illinois
After three years at Eastern Illinois he moved to Southern Illinois University in 1998 as an assistant to head coach Bruce Weber. Painter had previously met Weber while Weber was an assistant coach at Purdue during Matt's playing days. Weber and Painter quickly turned a team that had a losing record the previous season into a successful team. Painter helped lead the Salukis to the NIT in 2000, and twice to the NCAA tournament while he was the assistant coach. In the 2001-02 season, they qualified for the NCAA tournament and made a solid run with their season ending in the Sweet Sixteen with a loss to UConn. That year, SIU beat well-established programs such as Indiana, Georgia, and Texas Tech. Painter took over the head coaching job following that 2002-2003 season when Weber left for the head coaching job at Illinois University. Painter led the SIU team to a 25-5 record and a berth in the NCAA tournament in 2004. The team was ranked as high as 15th in the nation by the AP poll during the season. Matt also earned the Missouri Valley Coach of the Year award.
[edit] Purdue
In 2004, Painter was recruited by Purdue as the replacement for retiring head coach Gene Keady, signing a 6-year contract. Painter was handpicked by his former coach as his replacement, leaving his assistant coach, Chris Lowery, as head coach at SIU. As part of a planned transition, Painter was the Associate Head Coach for the 2004-05 season. He joined former teammate Cuonzo Martin on the coaching staff. For the 2005-06 season, Matt Painter took over for Keady as the head coach for his alma matter. In his first season as head coach at Purdue, Painter went 9-19, which despite losing 4 starters to injury was still an improvement over the previous season's 7-21 record.
In his second season at Purdue as head coach, with 2 returning seniors from leg injuries and a player from a previous suspension, their team had high hopes for an NCAA berth and probably the most improved team in the nation for the 2006-2007 season. Carl Landry and David Teague both return to the team, together, averaging about 34 ppg and 15 rebounds a game. Painter's Boilermakers finished the pre-season at 11-3, beating and giving the first losses to teams as AP ranked #25 Virginia and Missouri, yet being trampled on the first road game at Indiana State, a former rivalry team of Painter's at Southern Illinois. They finished the pre season and headed deep into the middle of the regular season without a road win, including the 2 seasons prior with Painter part of the Boilermaker's bench. That 29 road game losing streak ended on February 3rd, 2007, beating Penn State.
After winning seven of their last ten conference games for the 2006-2007 regular season and setting a single-season school record for most home wins in school history at 16-1, Painter and his Boilermakers finished the regular season with a 9-7 record. They received a 5th seed in the Big Ten Tournament, finishing in the third round, losing to #1 ranked/seeded Ohio State. Purdue was invited to the 2007 NCAA Tournament, Painter's second appearance as a head coach, receiving a 9th seed to play Lute Olson's Arizona in the first round. Getting by the Wildcats, Purdue fell to the #1 seeded defending champs, Florida, in the second round.
After what the Boiler's, and Boiler's only, considered a great season, the forth-coming seasons are looking to head in the right direction as well. Painter and his coaching staff grabbed hold of one of the top 200 recruiting classes in the nation for the 2007-2008 season, all of which are from within the state of Indiana. This class is nowhere near the class of rival Indiana, whose includes Eric Gordon, widely considered the best player in the state of Indiana and all of the country. This class is generally ranked in the top 3. So it looks as if in the future, the Boilers will continue to be the 4th best team in the state of Indiana, salivating at any attention they are given.
[edit] NCAA Division 1 Head Coaching record
| School | Season | Record | Postseason / Awards | |
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| Purdue | 2007-08 | 0-0 (0-0) | ||
| Purdue | 2006-07 | 22-12 (9-7) | NCAA Second Round | |
| Purdue | 2005-06 | 9-19 (3-13) | ||
| Purdue (Associate Head Coach) | 2004-05 | 7-21 (3-13) | ||
| Southern Illinois | 2003-04 | 25-5 (17-1) | NCAA First Round / Missouri Valley Coach of the Year |
| Preceded by Bruce Weber |
Southern Illinois Men's Basketball Head Coach 2003-2004 |
Succeeded by Chris Lowery |
| Preceded by Gene Keady |
Purdue Men's Basketball Head Coach 2005– |
Succeeded by incumbent |
