Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UC San Diego |
Conference | Big West |
Record | 210–114 (.648) |
Biographical details | |
Born | Mobile, Alabama, U.S. | October 15, 1980
Playing career | |
1999–2004 | Spring Hill |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2004–2013 | UC San Diego (assistant) |
2013–present | UC San Diego |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 210–114 (.648) |
Tournaments | 5–4 (NCAA DII) 0–1 (CBI) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3 CCAA regular season (2017, 2019, 2020) 4 CCAA tournament (2017–2020) | |
Awards | |
Big West Coach of the Year (2024) 2× CCAA Coach of the Year (2017, 2020) | |
Eric Olen (born October 15, 1980) [1] is an American college basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UC San Diego Tritons. [2]
Olen played at Spring Hill College, where he was part of three-straight Badgers' NAIA national tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2000. [2]
Olen would join his former college coach Bill Carr as an assistant at UC San Diego in 2004, and would stay in the role until 2013 before being promoted to head coach after then head coach Chris Carlson left for an administrative role with the West Coast Conference. [3] [4] Olen has since led the Tritons to three CCAA regular season titles and four consecutive conference tournament titles in addition to four NCAA Division II tournament appearances. [2] He guided the Tritons men's basketball program into its status in NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference beginning in 2020-21. [5]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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UC San Diego Tritons (California Collegiate Athletic Association)(2013–2020) | |||||||||
2013–14 | UC San Diego | 15–11 | 11–11 | 7th | |||||
2014–15 | UC San Diego | 16–11 | 14–8 | T-4th | |||||
2015–16 | UC San Diego | 24–8 | 15–5 | 2nd | NCAA Division II West Region Final | ||||
2016–17 | UC San Diego | 27–6 | 17–3 | 1st | NCAA Division II West Region Final | ||||
2017–18 | UC San Diego | 21–11 | 15–7 | T-3rd | NCAA Division II West Region Quarterfinal | ||||
2018–19 | UC San Diego | 26–8 | 17–5 | T-1st | NCAA Division II West Region Semifinal | ||||
2019–20 | UC San Diego | 30–1 | 21–1 | 1st | |||||
UC San Diego Tritons (Big West Conference)(2020–present) | |||||||||
2020–21 | UC San Diego | 7–10 | 4–8 | ||||||
2021–22 | UC San Diego | 13–16 | 7–11 | 8th | |||||
2022–23 | UC San Diego | 10–20 | 5–13 | 9th | |||||
2023–24 | UC San Diego | 21–12 | 15–5 | 2nd | CBI First Round | ||||
UC San Diego: | 210–114 (.648) | 141–77 (.647) | |||||||
Total: | 210–114 (.648) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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