Todd Lee
Todd Lee (born February 20, 1964)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: USC Trojans (Head coach: Eric Musselman)
Current conference: Big Ten Conference
Teams coached: Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers, South Dakota Coyotes
Kentucky Wesleyan record^: 154-81 (.655)
South Dakota record: 66-52 (.559)
Overall record^: 220-133 (.623)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- GLVC (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 1 (2010)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 6 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Awards:
- Summit League Coach of the Year: 1 (2021)
- GLVC (Div II) Coach of the Year: 1 (2008)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2024-present | USC (asst) |
| 2023-2024 | Arkansas (asst) |
| 2022-2023 | Arkansas (scouting) |
| 2018-2022 | South Dakota |
| 2013-2018 | Grand Canyon (assoc. HC) |
| 2005-2013 | Kentucky Wesleyan |
| 1997-2005 | UC Irvine (asst) |
| 1994-1997 | Cal State Bakersfield (asst) |
| 1992-1994 | Rapid City Thrillers (asst) |
| 1989-1992 | San Diego (asst) |
| 1986-1989 | Southwestern CC (asst) |
Todd Lee Facts
- Todd Walter Lee
- Born February 20, 1964
- Hometown: Huron, South Dakota
- Alma Mater: University of South Dakota (BA, 1986) / Azusa Pacific University (M.Ed, 2003)
- Started coaching career after graduating from USD in 1986, spending three years as an assistant at Southwestern CC (CA)
- Spent three years as an assistant at San Diego under Hank Egan and then two seasons working for Eric Musselman with the CBA’s Rapid City Thrillers
- Returned to California in 1994, assisting Pat Douglass for three seasons at CSU Bakersfield and eight more at UC Irvine
- Lee’s Bakersfield tenure included a NCAA Division II national title in 1997
- Was the head coach at Division II Kentucky Wesleyan for eight seasons, going 154-81 and appearing in six D-II Tournaments
- Returned to the D-I level in 2013, serving as Dan Majerle‘s associate head coach at Grand Canyon for five years
- Hired in April 2018 as the head coach at his alma mater, South Dakota
- Lee’s Coyotes went 13-10 (11-4) in his third season, earning him 2021 Summit League COY honors
- Fired in March 2022 after four seasons; went 66-52 overall and 19-12 in his fourth and final year
- In June 2022, Lee joined Eric Musselman‘s staff at Arkansas as Director of Scouting; became an assistant coach in 2023
- Followed Musselman to USC in 2024, becoming an assistant coach for the Trojans as they headed into the Big Ten
Todd Lee Coaching Tree
- Jordan Ashton (Iowa Wesleyan)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and II levels
