Blaine Taylor
Blaine Taylor (born January 14, 1958)
Teams coached: Montana Grizzlies, Old Dominion Monarchs
Montana record: 141-66 (.681)
Old Dominion record: 239-144 (.624)
Overall record: 380-210 (.644)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 6 (1992, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (1995, 2006)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2008)
- CIT Championships: 1 (2009)
- CIT Appearances: 2 (2009, 2012)
- CAA Regular Season Champion: 2 (2005, 2010)
- Big Sky Regular Season Champion: 2 (1992, 1995)
- CAA Tournament Champion: 3 (2005, 2010, 2011)
- Big Sky Tournament Champion: 2 (1992, 1997)
Awards:
- CAA Coach of the Year: 1 (2005)
- Big Sky Coach of the Year: 1 (1992)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2016-2019 | UC Irvine (asst) |
| 2001-2013 | Old Dominion |
| 1998-2001 | Stanford (asst) |
| 1991-1998 | Montana |
| 1986-1991 | Montana (asst) |
| 1981-1983 | Montana (grad. asst) |
Blaine Taylor Facts
- Blaine Taylor
- Born January 14, 1958
- Alma Mater: University of Montana (BA, 1981 & MS, 1984)
- Played point guard for two years at Montana under head coach Mike Montgomery
- Started his coaching career right away, spending two seasons as a graduate assistant under Montgomery
- Left in 1983 to spend three years as the head coach at Loyola Sacred Heart HS in Missoula, MT
- Returned to Montana in 1986, spending the next five seasons as an assistant under Stew Morrill
- Promoted to head coach at his alma mater in 1991 when Morrill left for Colorado State
- Won 141 games in seven seasons as head coach, going to two NCAA Tournaments and one NIT
- Reunited with Montgomery in 1998, working as one of his assistants at Stanford for three seasons
- Hired as the head coach at Old Dominion in 2001, leading the program for the next 12 seasons
- Won the CAA regular season twice and CAA Tournament three times
- Took the Monarchs to four NCAA Tournaments, one NIT, two CITs (won it all in 2009) and one CBI
- Fired in February 2013 as the Monarchs were in the midst of a 2-20 (0-10) season
- Joined Russell Turner‘s staff at UC Irvine as an assistant in 2016 and worked there for three seasons
- Returned to ODU in June 2022 to work as an athletic development officer for major gifts
- Along with his wife, Annie, has four daughters
Blaine Taylor Coaching Tree
- Jim Corrigan (Old Dominion)
- Travis DeCuire (Montana)
- Don Holst (Montana)
- Larry Krystkowiak (Utah, Milwaukee Bucks, Montana)