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Todd Golden
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamFlorida
ConferenceSEC
Record0–0 (–)
Biographical details
Born (1985-07-07) July 7, 1985 (age 39)
Phoenix
Playing career
2004–2007St. Mary's
2008–2010Maccabi Haifa
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2012–2014Columbia (assistant)
2014–2016Auburn (assistant)
2017–2019San Francisco (assistant)
2019–2022San Francisco
2022–presentFlorida
Head coaching record
Overall57–36 (.613)
Tournaments0–1 (NCAA)

Todd Golden (born July 7, 1985) is a former American-Israeli basketball player and current head coach of the Florida Gators men's basketball team.

Playing career

Golden played four years at St. Mary's where he was part of two NCAA Tournament appearances.[1] During his senior season he ranked second in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio and graduated as the Gaels' all-time leader in free-throw percentage (.832).[2]

Upon graduation, Golden played for two seasons with Maccabi Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League.[3] Golden also competed in the 2009 Maccabiah Games with the USA Open Team.[2]

Coaching career

After working in the private sector in advertising sales once his playing career was over, Golden entered the college coaching ranks joining Kyle Smith's staff at Columbia, first as director of basketball operations, then as an assistant coach.[4][5] He would then take a director of basketball operations position at Auburn under Bruce Pearl, his coach during the 2009 Maccabiah Games.[6] Golden would rise to assistant coach with the Tigers in his final season before reuniting with Smith at San Francisco.

On April 1, 2019, Golden was officially introduced as the 20th men's basketball coach in Dons history, replacing Smith who departed for Washington State.[7][8]

Golden took the Dons to the NCAA Tournament in 2022, losing in overtime to Murray State in the first round. On March 18, 2022, Golden took the head coaching job at Florida.[9]

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
San Francisco (West Coast) (2019–2022)
2019–20 San Francisco 22–12 9–7 5th
2020–21 San Francisco 11–14 4–9 8th
2021–22 San Francisco 24–10 10–6 4th NCAA Division I Round of 64
San Francisco: 57–36 (.613) 23–22 (.511)
Total: 57–36 (.613)

      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

  1. ^ "Todd Golden College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
  2. ^ a b "Todd Golden - Men's Basketball Coach". University of San Francisco Athletics.
  3. ^ "Todd Golden Signs Professional Contract to Play With Maccabi Haifa Heat". SMC California Athletics.
  4. ^ "Auburn's Todd Golden 'won't quit and won't lose'". AuburnUndercover & ITAT.
  5. ^ "Todd Golden - Men's Basketball Coach". Columbia University Athletics.
  6. ^ "Pearl hires Golden". AuburnUndercover & ITAT.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference usfdons.com1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "USF introduces Todd Golden as head coach; Bill Cartwright joining program - SFChronicle.com". www.sfchronicle.com. 2 April 2019.
  9. ^ https://floridagators.com/news/2022/3/18/mens-basketball-todd-golden-named-florida-mens-basketball-head-coach.aspx