Tad Boyle
Tad Boyle (born January 6, 1963)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Colorado Buffaloes
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Northern Colorado record: 56-66 (.459)
Colorado record: 298-183 (.620)
Overall record: 354-249 (.587)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 6 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 5 (2011, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023)
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2015)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2010)
- Big 12 Regular Season Champion: 0
- Big 12 Tournament Champion: 0
- Pac-12 Tournament Champion: 1 (2012)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2010-present | Colorado |
| 2006-2010 | Northern Colorado |
| 2000-2006 | Wichita State (asst) |
| 1998-2000 | Jacksonville State (asst) |
| 1997-1998 | Tennessee (asst) |
| 1994-1997 | Oregon (asst) |
Tad Boyle Facts
- Thomas Martin Boyle
- Born January 6, 1963
- Hometown: Greeley, Colorado
- Alma Mater: University of Kansas (BS, 1985)
- Played four seasons at Kansas, under Ted Owens and HOFer Larry Brown; was team captain as a senior in 1984-85
- First head coaching job was at Longmont HS in Colorado, leading that program for three seasons
- Spent four seasons as an assistant under Jerry Green – three at Oregon and one at Tennessee
- Was an assistant for eight seasons under Mark Turgeon – two at Jacksonville State and six at Wichita State
- Hired as head coach of Northern Colorado in 2006
- Went 56-66 over four seasons while improving the Bears’ win total each year
- Took over at Colorado in 2010; taken the Buffaloes to the postseason in twelve of his fourteen seasons at the helm
- Won the Pac-12 Tournament in 2012, part of a run of three-straight NCAA Tournament appearances (the first such streak in program history)
Tad Boyle Coaching Tree
- Rodney Billups (Denver)
- Kim English (Providence, George Mason)
- B.J. Hill (Northern Colorado)
- Jean Prioleau (San Jose State)