Men’s Basketball: Ohio State Coach Matta Honored by Butler University – Ohio State Buckeyes
5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
INDIANAPOLIS – The Butler University Alumni Association will honor Ohio State basketball coach Thad Matta during its 2008 Alumni Achievement Awards banquet on May 3. The awards recognize the recipients’ professional achievement and university/community service of five graduates.
Matta will receive the Robert Todd Duncan Alumni Achievement Award, recognizing personal and/or professional achievement that brings honor and distinction to Butler University.
Ohio State University’s men’s basketball coach since 2004, Matta has topped all previous OSU coaches’ records with a total of 105 wins.
A native of Hoopeston, Ill., Matta earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Butler in 1990 and played basketball for the Bulldogs from 19871990.
In his career as a head coach, Matta has led teams to five regular-season league titles in three NCAA Division I conferences with four conference tournament championships. With Matta as Butler’s head coach in 2000-2001, the Bulldogs won regular-season conference championships and conference tournament championships, and he was named conference Coach of the Year. He repeated those honors in the next year at Xavier University in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Other Butler alumni to be honored include Delia Askew, Clarence Crain and Brad Claymon of Indiana and the late Michael Asher of New Jersey.
