Todd Golden
Todd Golden (born July 7, 1985)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Florida Gators
Current conference: Southeastern Conference (SEC)
San Francisco record: 57-36 (.613)
Florida record: 40-29 (.580)
Overall record: 97-65 (.599)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2022, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2023)
- SEC Regular Season Champion: 0
- SEC Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | Florida |
| 2019-2022 | San Francisco |
| 2016-2019 | San Francisco (assoc. HC) |
| 2015-2016 | Auburn (asst) |
| 2014-2015 | Auburn (DBO) |
| 2013-2014 | Columbia (asst) |
| 2012-2013 | Columbia (DBO) |
Todd Golden Facts
- Todd Golden
- Born July 7, 1985
- Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
- Alma Mater: Saint Mary’s College of California (BA, 2008)
- Played four seasons at Saint Mary’s for longtime head coach Randy Bennett
- As a senior captain in 2007-08, Golden ranked second in the nation for assist-to-turnover ratio (3.68)
- Spent two seasons playing professionally in Israel for Maccabi Haifa
- Co-captain of the USA Open Team that won gold at the 2009 Maccabiah Games (coached by Bruce Pearl)
- Started his coaching career in 2013 as an assistant under Kyle Smith at Columbia
- Joined Pearl‘s staff at Auburn in 2014 as director of basketball operations and was elevated to assistant coach the following year
- Became the associate head coach at San Francisco in 2016, rejoining Smith in his new role as Dons head coach
- Elevated to head coach at USF in March 2019, following Smith’s departure to Washington State
- Won 22 games in his first season on the job, maintaining the high standard set by Smith
- Won 24 games and earned an at-large NCAA bid – the first for USF since 1998 – in 2021-22
- Honored by the Jewish Coaches Association in 2022 as the Red Auerbach Coach of the Year
- Left USF in March 2022 to become the head coach of the Florida Gators
- After going just 16-17 in year on, Golden led the Gators to 24 wins and an at-large NCAA Tournament berth in year two
Todd Golden Coaching Tree
- Chris Gerlufsen (San Francisco)