.jpg) Painter in 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Current position | |||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Purdue | ||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||||||||||||||
| Record | 452–204 (.689) | ||||||||||||||
| Annual salary | $4.85 million | ||||||||||||||
| Biographical details | |||||||||||||||
| Born | August 27, 1970 Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Purdue University | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||
| 1989–1993 | Purdue | ||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Guard | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Washington & Jefferson (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Barton (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1998 | Eastern Illinois (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2003 | Southern Illinois (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Southern Illinois | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Purdue (associate HC) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–present | Purdue | ||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||
| Overall | 477–209 (.695) | ||||||||||||||
| Tournaments | 22–16 (NCAA Division I) 1–1 (CBI) | ||||||||||||||
| Accomplishments and honors | |||||||||||||||
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Matthew Curtis Painter (born August 27, 1970)[1] is an American basketball coach and former player, who is the current and 19th head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers, serving in that role since 2005. He played college basketball at Purdue from 1989 to 1993. He was also the head coach of the Southern Illinois Salukis from 2003 to 2004.
Painter was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He attended high school at Delta High School in Muncie, Indiana.[2] After graduation from high school in 1989, Painter enrolled at Purdue University and played point guard for the Boilermakers, starting for one season. As a senior in 1993, he led Purdue in assists and was an honorable mention All-Big Ten Conference selection.
From 1993 to 2003, Painter was an assistant coach at Washington & Jefferson (1993–94), Barton (1994–95), Eastern Illinois (1995–1998) and Southern Illinois (1998–2003). After helping lead Southern Illinois to consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships in 2002 and 2003, he was promoted to head coach when Bruce Weber left for Illinois, where he led the Salukis to another conference championship in one season, including advancing to the 2004 NCAA Division I Tournament. Immediately afterward, Painter signed a six-year deal as head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers, where he would spend a year as a coach-in-waiting until Gene Keady's retirement at the end of the season. With Painter at the helm, Purdue teams have won the Big Ten Conference five times, the Big Ten Tournament twice, and have reached the NCAA tournament 15 times, with seven Sweet-16 appearances, two Elite Eight appearances, one Final Four and one national title game appearance. Combined with his Southern Illinois' NCAA Tournament appearance, he has a total of 16 tournament appearances in 19 years coaching. Painter has coached a total of nine players who went on to play in the NBA in his tenure at Purdue University, with three of them being drafted in the first round of the NBA draft.[3] Painter has been named Big Ten Conference Coach of the year five times, which is second all time behind his predecessor Gene Keady.
- ^ "Happy Birthday Archived 2022-04-22 at the Wayback Machine." The Garrett Clipper: August 26, 2012. p. 5.
- ^ "Matt Painter bio". CBS Interactive and Purdue Sports. Archived from the original on 2011-01-04. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
- ^ "Players Who Played for Purdue". Archived from the original on 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-09.