Blaine Taylor

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Blaine Taylor
Title	Head coach
College	Old Dominion
Sport	Basketball
Career highlights
Championships
Big Sky Tournament Championship (1992, 1997) Big Sky Regular Season Championship (1992) CAA Tournament Championship (2005) CAA Regular Season Championship (2005)
Awards
CAA Coach of the Year (2006)
Playing career
1979–1981	Montana
Position	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1981–1983 1983–1986 1986–1991 1991–1998 1998–2001 2001–present	Montana (asst.) Loyola Sacred Heart HS Montana (asst.) Montana Stanford (asst.) Old Dominion

Blaine Taylor is the current head coach of the Old Dominion Monarchs men's basketball team. He has led his team to many accomplishments both major and minor, including a CAA Tournament championship in 2005 and appearances in the NCAA tournament in 2005 and 2007, each of which the Monarchs lost in the first round.

Taylor also led the Monarchs to the 2006 NIT semifinals, where the team lost to the Michigan Wolverines.

Taylor was head coach of the University of Montana and an assistant coach under Mike Montgomery at Stanford University before taking over as head coach of the Monarchs.

[edit] Head coaching record

[edit] Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Old Dominion (CAA) (2001 — 2008)
2001–2002	ODU	12-16	7-11	7th
2002–2003	ODU	12-15	9-9	6th
2003–2004	ODU	17-12	11-7	4th
2004–2005	ODU	28-6	15-3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2005–2006	ODU	24-10	13-5	4th	NIT Semifinals
2006–2007	ODU	24-9	15-3	2nd	NCAA 1st Round
2007–2008	ODU	18-16	11-7	4th	2008 College Basketball Invitational Quarterfinals
Total:		135-84
National Champion         Conference Champion         Conference Tournament Champion

v • d • e Montana Grizzlies Head Basketball Coaches Conibear • Schule • Findley • N. Whitlock • Mustaine • Nissen • Bierman • Stewart • Lewandowski • Dahlberg • Carpenter • Chinske • Buzzetti • Dahlberg • Cox • Nord • Cope • Rocheleau • Heathcote • Brandenburg • Montgomery • Morrill • Taylor • Holst • Kennedy • Krystkowiak • Tinkle

v • d • e Old Dominion Monarchs Head Basketball Coaches Scott • Stirnweiss • Chandler • Rubin • Callahan • Metheny • Allen • Webb • Young • Purnell • Capel • Taylor

v • d • e Current head men's basketball coaches of the Colonial Athletic Association Monte Ross (Delaware) · Bruiser Flint (Drexel) · Jim Larranaga (George Mason) · Rod Barnes (Georgia State) · Tom Pecora (Hofstra) · Matt Brady (James Madison) · Bill Coen (Northeastern) · Blaine Taylor (Old Dominion) · Pat Kennedy (Towson) · Benny Moss (UNC Wilmington) · Anthony Grant (Virginia Commonwealth) · Tony Shaver (William & Mary)