Matt Painter
Matt Painter (born August 27, 1970)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Purdue Boilermakers
Current conference: Big Ten Conference
Southern Illinois record: 25-5 (.833)
Purdue record: 447-203 (.688)
Overall record: 472-208 (.694)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0 (Runner-up in 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 16 (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 7 (2009, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (2024)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2013)
- Big Ten Regular Season Champion: 5 (2010, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024)
- Missouri Valley Regular Season Champion: 1 (2004)
- Big Ten Tournament Champion: 2 (2009, 2023)
Awards:
- NABC Coach of the Year: 1 (2019)
- Big Ten Coach of the Year: 5 (2008, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2024)
- Missouri Valley Coach of the Year: 1 (2004)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2005-present | Purdue |
| 2004-2005 | Purdue (assoc. HC) |
| 2003-2004 | Southern Illinois |
| 1998-2003 | Southern Illinois (asst) |
| 1995-1998 | Eastern Illinois (asst) |
| 1994-1995 | Barton (asst) |
| 1993-1994 | Washington & Jefferson (asst) |
Matt Painter Facts
- Matthew Curtis Painter
- Born August 27, 1970
- Hometown: Muncie, Indiana
- Alma Mater: Purdue University (BS, 1994) / Eastern Illinois University (MS, 1998)
- Played for four seasons with the Purdue Boilermakers under legendary head coach Gene Keady
- Bruce Weber and Steve Lavin were both assistant coaches at Purdue when Painter was a player
- Selected as team captain as a senior and named an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention
- First jobs were as an assistant at Washington & Jefferson (under Tom Reiter) and Barton (under Dave Davis) for one year each
- Spent three years as an assistant at Eastern Illinois under head coach Rick Samuels
- Hired by his former coach Bruce Weber to be an assistant on his Southern Illinois staff; Painter spent five seasons as an assistant at SIU and took over as head coach is 2003 when Weber left for Illinois
- Keady retired just one year later and Painter became the new Purdue head coach
- Painter has won five Big Ten titles and two Big Ten Tournaments and has been to the NCAA Tournament with Purdue fifteen times in nineteen seasons, including seven trips to the Sweet Sixteen; he’s been named Big Ten COY five times
- In 2023, Purdue became the second-ever 1-seed to lose their opening game to a 16-seed, falling to Fairleigh Dickinson
- The following year, the Boilers again earned a 1-seed and reached the NCAA Final Four for the first time since 1980, finishing as Runner-up
Matt Painter Coaching Tree
- Greg Gary (Mercer)
- Brad Korn (Southeast Missouri State)
- Paul Lusk (Missouri State)
- Steve Lutz (Western Kentucky, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi)
- Cuonzo Martin (Missouri, California, Tennessee, Missouri State)
- Jack Owens (Miami OH)
- Rick Ray (Southeast Missouri State, Mississippi State)
- Micah Shrewsberry (Notre Dame, Penn State)