Thad Matta is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on July 11, 1967 in Hoopeston, Illinois, United States. The 13th coach on the Ohio State Buckeyes men’s basketball team. He is a numerous Big Ten Tournament winner.
He was a coach He coached Greg Oden to a national championship appearance with Ohio State in 2007. to an appearance at the national championship with Ohio State in 2007.
A basketball standout for the Cornjerkers at Hoopeston-East Lynn High School in Hoopeston, Illinois, Matta was a two-year starter for the Butler University Bulldogs in three seasons after transferring from Southern Illinois University as a sophomore. He led Butler in assists (1000) and three-point field goal percentage (.433) in 1987–88 and in free-throw percentage in 1988–89 (.872). He served as a team captain (one of the Butler tri-captains that year) on Barry Collier’s first team in 1989–90 and finished his career in sixth place on Butler’s all-time list for free-throw percentage (.800). He earned a B.S. degree from Butler in 1990. Matta enjoyed his Butler career-high point total of 21 points against Xavier University at the Cincinnati Gardens on March 2, 1989.
Matta began his coaching career at Indiana State University as a graduate assistant under head coach Tates Locke in 1990–91. Matta served as an academic coordinator and administrative assistant at Butler (1991–94) before moving into the full-time coaching ranks.
He married Barbara Matta in 1996.
