Nate Oats
Nate Oats (born October 13, 1974)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Alabama Crimson Tide
Current conference: Southeastern Conference (SEC)
Buffalo record: 96-43 (.691)
Alabama record: 117-54 (.684)
Overall record: 213-97 (.687)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 7 (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 3 (2021, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (2024)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- SEC Regular Season Champion: 2 (2021, 2023)
- MAC Regular Season Champion: 2 (2018, 2019)
- SEC Tournament Champion: 2 (2021, 2023)
- MAC Tournament Champion: 3 (2016, 2018, 2019)
Awards:
- SEC Coach of the Year: 1 (2021)
- MAC Coach of the Year: 2 (2018, 2019)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2019-present | Alabama |
| 2015-2019 | Buffalo |
| 2013-2015 | Buffalo (asst) |
| 2000-2002 | Wisconsin-Whitewater (asst) |
| 1997-2000 | Maranatha Baptist (asst) |
Nate Oats Facts
- Nathanael J. Oats
- Born October 13, 1974
- Hometown: Watertown, Wisconsin
- Alma Mater: Maranatha Baptist University (BS, 1997) / University of Wisconsin (MS)
- The Wisconsin-native played at Div III Maranatha Baptist in Watertown, WI
- Started his coaching career at his alma mater, joining the coaching staff for three seasons after graduation
- Spent two years an assistant at D-III UW-Whitewater before taking the head coaching job at Romulus HS outside Detroit
- Went 222-52 over 11 seasons in Romulus; won the 2013 Class A state championship, his final season at the school
- Joined Bobby Hurley‘s staff at Buffalo in 2013, and after two seasons was elevated to head coach to replace Hurley
- Won the MAC Tournament and led the Bulls to the 2016 NCAA Tournament in his first season on the job
- Won back-to-back MAC titles (2018-19) and returned to the NCAAs both seasons by way MAC Tournament crowns
- Left Buffalo in March 2019 to take the job as head coach at Alabama
- In 2020-21, Oats led the Tide to an outright SEC title and SEC Tournament crown and was named SEC COY
- His 2022-23 team was ranked as high as #1 and entered the NCAA Tournament as the top overall seed, but was eliminated in S16
- The following year, Oats and the 4-seed Tide reached the NCAA Final Four for the first time in program history
Nate Oats Coaching Tree
- Austin Claunch (UTSA)
- Charlie Henry (Georgia Southern)
- Julius Hodge (Lincoln)
- Bryan Hodgson (Arkansas State)
- Lindsey Hunter (Mississippi Valley State)
- Donyell Marshall (Central Connecticut)
- Antoine Pettway (Kennesaw State)
- Jim Whitesell (Buffalo)