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)
• Bryan Hodgson (Arkansas State)
• Lindsey Hunter (Mississippi Valley State)
• Donyell Marshall (Central Connecticut)
• Antoine Pettway (Kennesaw State)
• Jim Whitesell (Buffalo)