Nate Oats

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Nate Oats
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Buffalo
Conference MAC
Record 20–15
Biographical details
Born (1974-10-13) October 13, 1974 (age 49)
Playing career
1993–1997 Maranatha Baptist
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997–2000 Maranatha Baptist (asst.)
2000–2002 Wisconsin–Whitewater (asst.)
2002–2013 Romulus HS
2013–2015 Buffalo (asst.)
2015–present Buffalo
Head coaching record
Overall 20–15

Nathanael[citation needed] "Nate" Oats (born October 13, 1974) is an American basketball coach. He is currently the head basketball coach at the State University of New York at Buffalo, following two seasons as an assistant coach under Bobby Hurley.[1][2] Oats was named head coach on April 11, 2015 after Hurley was hired by Arizona State as head coach.

Education and playing career

Oats grew up in Watertown, Wisconsin where he was a three year starter on a high school basketball which went 24-0 in his senior year.[3] He stayed in Watertown after high school, playing college basketball at Division-III Maranatha Baptist University. He was an all-conference player and served as a captain of the Crusaders while earning a Bachelor’s degree in Math Education.[4] He subsequently received a Master of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in kinesiology and exercise science.[5]

Coaching career

After finishing his playing career at Maranatha Baptist, Oats became a member of the team's coaching staff in 1997, where he remained until 2000. He then served as an assistant men's basketball coach for the Division-III University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. After the 2002 season, Oats left Wisconsin–Whitewater to become the head basketball coach and a teacher[5] at Romulus High School in Detroit.[4]

Over 11 years at Romulus, Oats accumulated a 222-52 record and reached the semifinals of the state tournament five times. In 2013, Oats led the team to a 27-1 record and a state Class A championship en route to winning multiple coach of the year honors from the local press. He won similar coaching awards in 2005, 2008 and 2009.[4] While recruiting Romulus guard E.C. Matthews on behalf of Rhode Island in 2013, Bobby Hurley was impressed by Oats' coaching.[6] Shortly thereafter, Hurley was named the head coach at Buffalo and hired Oats as an assistant on his staff.[7]

During his two-year tenure as an assistant, Buffalo had a 42-20 record, won their first Mid-American Conference Tournament and made their first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. As an assistant at Buffalo, Oats was credited with recruiting Justin Moss, who would go on to win the 2014-15 MAC Player of the year award.[4]

On April 9, 2015, the same day that Bobby Hurley announced that he would be leaving Buffalo to take the head coaching job at Arizona State, Oats was named the interim head coach at Buffalo.[8] On April 13, he was officially given the head coaching job. The Buffalo roster for his first season as a head coach featured two former Romulus players: Christian Pino and Raheem Johnson.[6]

In Oats' first season as head coach of Buffalo, he led the Bulls to a 3rd place tie in the Mid-American Conference standings. In the MAC Tournament, Buffalo defeated Miami University, Ohio, and then top-seeded Akron to claim the 2016 conference tournament championship.[9] On May 18, 2016, Buffalo Athletic Director Allen Greene announced that the school had agreed on a new five-year contract with Oats.[10]

Personal life

Oats and his wife Crystal have three daughters, Lexie, Jocie and Brielle.[4] In November 2015, Oats announced on his Facebook page that his wife had an aggressive form of lymphoma and would be undergoing chemotherapy. With his wife's encouragement, he confirmed that he would not be renouncing his coaching duties.[11]

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Buffalo Bulls (Mid-American Conference) (2015–present)
2015–16 Buffalo 20–15 10–8 T–3rd (East) NCAA First Round
Buffalo: 20–15 (.571) 10–8 (.556)
Total: 20–15 (.571)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

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