Todd Bozeman
Todd Bozeman (born December 5, 1963)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Rhode Island Rams (Head coach: David Cox)
Current conference: Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10)
Teams coached: California Golden Bears, Morgan State Bears
California record: 35-62 (.361) **
Morgan State record: 154-218 (.414) **
Overall record: 189-280 (.403) **
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (1993, 1994, 2009, 2010) **
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 1 (1993)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2008)
- MEAC Regular Season Champion: 3 (2008, 2009, 2010)
- MEAC Tournament Champion: 3 (2009, 2010)
Awards:
- Hugh Durham Award: 1 (2009)
- MEAC Coach of the Year: 3 (2008, 2009, 2010)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2021-present | Rhode Island (asst) |
| 2006-2019 | Morgan State |
| 1993-1996 | California |
| 1990-1993 | California (asst) |
| 1988-1990 | Tulane (asst) |
| 1987-1988 | George Mason (asst) |
Todd Bozeman Facts
- Todd Anthony Bozeman
- Born December 5, 1963
- Hometown: Forestville, Maryland
- Alma Mater: University of Rhode Island (BA, 1986)
- Played at URI under head coaches Brendan Malone and Claude English
- Started his coaching career as an assistant at Potomac HS (MD) then spent one year assisting Ernie Nestor at George Mason
- Spent two seasons as an assistant under Perry Clark at Tulane and then two full seasons under Lou Campanelli at Cal
- Campanelli was fired with ten games to go in the 1992-93 season and Bozeman was named interim head coach; led the Bears into the NCAA Tournament and an upset of two-time defending champs Duke to reach the Sweet Sixteen
- Became the youngest coach to ever reach that point of the NCAA Tourney at age 29
- Given the head coach job permanently following this performance
- Campanelli was fired with ten games to go in the 1992-93 season and Bozeman was named interim head coach; led the Bears into the NCAA Tournament and an upset of two-time defending champs Duke to reach the Sweet Sixteen
- His time in Berkeley would unfortunately end in scandal and resignation: Bozeman admitted to paying $30k over two years to a Cal player’s parents after those parents turned him into the NCAA
- The program was forced to vacate all games in which that player – Jelani Gardner – participated in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons, which included a 1996 NCAA Tournament appearance and loss
- Bozeman was given an eight-year show-cause penalty, effectively keeping him out of the NCAA through 2005
- Spent the next ten seasons working as a scout and assistant coach with various NBA teams
- Returned to college in 2006 as the new head coach at Morgan State; Bozeman became the first head coach to get hired again at a Division I college after being given a show-cause penalty
- Won three straight MEAC titles early in his tenure, with two MEAC Tournament titles leading to NCAA Tournament berths
- Had all 39 wins from the 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons vacated in 2018 due to NCAA infractions
- Fired in March 2019 after 13 seasons at Morgan State, going 195-217 during that tenure
- In May 2021, Bozeman returned to alma mater Rhode Island as an assistant coach under David Cox
- Along with his wife, TeLethea, has three children
Todd Bozeman Coaching Tree
- Billy Kennedy (Texas A&M, Murray State, SE Louisiana, Centenary)
- Jason Kidd (Dallas Mavericks, Milwaukee Bucks, Brooklyn Nets)
- Larry Stewart (Coppin State)
** Listed records and accomplishments for this coach do not include wins or appearances later vacated by the NCAA
