Tommy Lloyd

Title

Head Coach
Email

coaches@arizona.edu
Phone

621-2430

*2022 NABC National Coach of the Year*
*2022 USBWA National Coach of the Year*
*2022 Associated Press National Coach of the Year*
*2022 Pac-12 Coach of the Year*
*NCAA record for most wins by a head coach in his first two seasons (61)
*88 wins through his first three seasons, the second-most in NCAA history

Tommy Lloyd is in his fifth season as the head coach at Arizona after he was named head coach April 14, 2021. In his first four years, he has posted a record of 112-33 (.772), which is the second-most wins by a Division I men's basketball head coach in his first four years.

The Wildcats have won two conference regular season titles and made three appearances in conference tournament games - winning two - with Lloyd leading the way. In the NCAA Tournament, Lloyd and Arizona have advanced to the Sweet 16 in three out of four years.

He has coached two conference players of the year in Bennedict Mathurin (2022) and Caleb Love (2024) and saw five players selected in the NBA Draft (Mathurin, Terry, Koloko, Larsson, Bryant).

After serving as an assistant coach at Gonzaga for 22 seasons prior to his arrival in Tucson, he has instilled a fast, fun and energetic style of play inside the McKale Center. Arizona leads the country in assists per game (18.3) and is third in the nation in scoring (83.9 ppg) since the start of the 2021-22 season.

His head coaching career got off to a record-breaking start, compiling a 61-11 record through his first two years to set a new NCAA record for most wins by a coach in their first two seasons. His 88-20 mark through three seasons is the second-most wins in NCAA history for a coach in his first three seasons.

Lloyd is also the first power conference coach to win his conference tournament in his first two seasons after capturing the 2022 and 2023 Pac-12 Tournament titles in Las Vegas.

Tommy Lloyd Year-by-Year Record
Year	Overall	Conference (Finish)	Note
2021-22	33-4	18-2 (1st Pac-12)	* Pac-12 Regular Season Champions * Pac-12 Tournament Champions * No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament * Advanced to Sweet 16 * National Coach of the Year * Pac-12 Coach of the Year
2022-23	28-7	14-6 (T2nd Pac-12)	* Pac-12 Tournament Champions * No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament * Maui Invitational Champions
2023-24	27-9	15-5 (1st Pac-12)	* Pac-12 Regular Season Champions * No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament * Advanced to Sweet 16
2024-25	24-13	14-6 (T3rd Big 12)	* Advanced to championship game of Big 12 Tournament * Made third appearance in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament
Totals	112-33	41-19	* NCAA Record for most wins in first two seasons (61) * Second-most wins (112) in first four seasons in NCAA history * First power conference head coach to win his conference tournament championships in his first two seasons as head coach.

AT ARIZONA

The fourth year of the Tommy Lloyd era at Arizona was the first for the Wildcats as a member of the Big 12 Conference. With a 24-13 overall record and a 14-6 mark in conference play, the Wildcats earned a top four seed in the conference tournament and advanced to the title game. In the NCAA Tournament, Lloyd once again guided the team to the Sweet 16 - the third appearance in four seasons. Caleb Love earned First Team All-Big 12 honors while Henri Veesaar and Tobe Awaka were honorable mention. At 80.0 points per game, Arizona led the Big 12 and was the first Big 12 team since Baylor in 2020-21 to average 80 or more points. After starting the year 4-5 through the first nine games, the Cats won 13 of the next 14 to surge back into the national discussion. At the end of the season, Arizona ranked 13th in the final coaches poll and 15th in the final AP poll. Freshman Carter Bryant was the 9th overall pick in the NBA Draft, the fifth Wildcat to be selected in the draft under Lloyd's tuteledge.

The 2023-24 season saw Lloyd lead the Wildcats to a 27-9 overall record and a 15-5 mark in the Pac-12 to capture the regular season title. Senior guard Caleb Love was named Pac-12 Player of the Year, becoming the 10th Wildcat to receive the honor, after averaging 20.0 points and shooting 37.3% from the 3-point line in conference play. Player development continues to be a strength for Lloyd and his staff, as Oumar Ballo garnered first team all-conference honors for the second straight season. Pelle Larsson, who earned Second Team All Pac-12 honors, was selected 44th overall in the NBA Draft by the Miami Heat, giving Lloyd four draft picks in three seasons.

Year two for Lloyd in Tucson continued to add to the history and tradition of Arizona Basketball, as the Wildcats went 28-7 on the year and finished eighth in the final Associated Press poll of the season and No. 17 in the coaches poll. The Wildcats earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament after being pegged as a No. 1 seed the previous season, marking the first time since 2014 and 2015 that Arizona secured a top two seed in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments.

As a team, Arizona finished the 2022-23 season second in the country in assists per game (18.9) and sixth in scoring (81.9). Individually, Azuolas Tubelis was a consensus Second Team All-American and a first team all-conference honoree. He became the seventh player in Pac-12 history to lead the conference in scoring (19.8) and rebounding (9.1) in the same season.

Oumar Ballo was also a first team All Pac-12 honoree after finishing second in the conference in rebounding and third in field goal percentage and earning MVP of Maui Invitational. Courtney Ramey earned Pac-12 honorable mention and Kylan Boswell was on the Pac-12 honorable mention all-freshman team.

In his first season as a head coach in 2021-22, he was named National Coach of the Year by the NABC, USBWA and the Associated Press, becoming the first Arizona men's basketball head coach to win any of those awards. He led Arizona to a 33-4 overall record and a 18-2 mark in Pac-12 play to claim the conference's regular season title by three games over UCLA. The Kelso, Washington native set the Pac-12 record for most wins in his first season as head coach and the Wildcats became the first Pac-12 team to ever win 18 regular season conference games. The 33 wins are the second-most in NCAA history for a head coach in his first-ever season as a head coach, falling one short of UNC's Bill Guthridge mark of 34 in 1998.

Under his guidance in 2021-22, sophomore Bennedict Mathurin was named a consensus All-American as well as the Pac-12 Player of the Year and Most Outstanding Player of the Pac-12 Tournament, as he scored 655 points on the season, the ninth-most in Arizona history. Junior center Christian Koloko was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in addition to Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year and tied the Arizona single-season record for blocked shots (102) while also increasing his scoring output from 5.3 points per game as a sophomore to 12.6 as a junior and shooting 63.5% from the floor. Sophomore forward Azuolas Tubelis averaged 13.9 points per game and was named First Team All Pac-12 while Dalen Terry was honorable mention all-conference and ranked 12th nationally with a 2.84 assist-to-turnover ratio. Rounding out the award winners from the season was sophomore Pelle Larsson, who shot 47.8% from the floor and averaged 7.2 points and 3.4 rebounds to earn Pac-12 Sixth Man of the Year accolades.

As a team in 2021-22, Arizona led the country and set a new Arizona single-season record with 726 assists. The Wildcats also set a new program record with 210 blocked shots, a total that ranked second nationally. The fast-paced offensive attack led to Arizona averaging 84.0 points per game - third nationally - and the most by an Arizona team since 2003-04.

The Wildcats were also champions in the classroom during Lloyd's first season, recording a then-record setting 3.04 team GPA in the Fall 2021 semester with four players posting a perfect 4.0 GPA. Then in the Spring 2022 semester, the team GPA improved to an all-time program best 3.14 with eight players posting a 3.5 or higher GPA. Arizona also earned NABC Team Academic Excellence award in 2021-22 for having a team GPA of 3.00 or higher, marking the first time that Wildcats had received the honor since the award began in 2012-13 season.

USA BASKETBALL
In the summer of 2024, Lloyd led USA Basketball's U18 team to a 6-0 record on the way to the gold medal at the FIBA AmeriCup in Argentina. He followed that up by guiding the U19 team to the top of the podium after a perfect 7-0 mark at the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup in Switzerland alongside Arizona freshman Koa Peat.

PRIOR TO ARIZONA
Lloyd, who will turn 51 during the 2025-26 season, served as an administrative assistant at Gonzaga for Few during the 2000-01 season before being promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2001-02 season. In his 20 seasons in Spokane, the Zags posted a record of 578-109 (.841) and reached the NCAA Tournament every year, going as far as the title game twice, the Elite Eight twice and the Sweet 16 four times. Gonzaga was also ranked No. 1 in the country for the first time in program history in 2012-13 and then again ascended to the top spot in 2016-17, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21.

During his tenure, Lloyd and the Zags won 19 West Coast Conference regular season titles and 15 WCC Tournament championships with the help of 87 all-WCC honorees, including nine newcomers of the year and six defenders of the year.

Coach Lloyd was instrumental in the Zags signing and developing NBA players, including two-time NBA All-Star Domantas Sabonis, Rui Hachimura, Kelly Olynyk, Zach Collins, Adam Morrison, Brandon Clarke, Kyle Wiltjer, Austin Daye, Robert Sacre, Ronny Turiaf, Jeremy Pargo and Elias Harris.

Lloyd has used his knowledge of the European game to help Gonzaga players earn professional contracts overseas while also helping to cultivate recruiting relationships that have led to the signing of international players such as Martynas Arlauskas (Lithuania), Joel Ayayi (France), Oumar Ballo (Mali) and Pavel Zakharov (Russia). Also included among his former players are Japanese National Team member Hachimura; Polish National Team member Przemek Karnowski; Lithuanian National Team member Sabonis (the son of Naismith Hall of Famer Arvydas Sabonis); Canadians Kevin Pangos, Olynyk and Sacre; Germans Harris and Mathis Mönninghoff; JP Baptista of Brazil; Frenchmen Turiaf, Killian Tillie and Mathis Keita; Filip Petrusev of Serbia; Guy Landry Edi of the Ivory Coast; and Addullahi Kuso of Nigeria.

The Zags have had one of the most potent offenses in the nation over the last 20 years, joining North Carolina and Duke as the only three schools in the country to average more than 80 points per game. Gonzaga also led the country in overall field goal percentage (49.6%) and three-point field goal percentage (37.9%) in that span.

Lloyd agreed to a contract extension on following the 2024-25 season that runs through the 2029-30 season.

PERSONAL
A 1993 graduate of Kelso High School in Washington, Lloyd went on to attend Walla Walla Community College for two seasons and was an All-Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges All-East Region selection in 1995. Following his graduation from WWCC, he finished his career at Whitman College, earning his degree in biology and a secondary teaching credential. He played professionally in Brisbane, Australia in 1997 and Dusseldorf, Germany in 1999.

Lloyd and his wife, Chanelle, have three children - Liam, Sofia and Maria - and one grandchild, Luka.

Liam played basketball two seasons at Grand Canyon University (2020-22) and two seasons at Northern Arizona University (2022-24) before transferring to play at Arizona for his fifth season. He appeared in 96 games over his first four seasons and made 57 starts while averaging 4.6 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists.