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: 384-192 (.667)
Overall record: 409-197 (.675)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 14 (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 6 (2009, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2013)
- Big Ten Regular Season Champion: 3 (2010, 2017, 2019)
- Missouri Valley Regular Season Champion: 1 (2004)
- Big Ten Tournament Champion: 1 (2009)
Awards:
- NABC Coach of the Year: 1 (2019)
- Big Ten Coach of the Year: 4 (2008, 2010, 2011, 2019)
- 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 claimed three Big Ten titles and has been to the NCAA Tournament with Purdue thirteen times in seventeen seasons, including six trips to the Sweet Sixteen
- Has three children
Matt Painter Coaching Tree
- Greg Gary (Mercer)
- Brad Korn (Southeast Missouri State)
- Paul Lusk (Missouri State)
- Steve Lutz (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 (Penn State)