Dana Altman

Biography

2013 National Jim Phelan Coach of the Year 2016 Pac-12 Coach of the Year 2015 Pac-12 Coach of the Year 2013 Pac-12 Coach of the Year 2018 Creighton Athletic Hall of Fame 2023 Eastern New Mexico Athletic Hall of Fame Dana Altman became the 24th head coach to record 700 career wins at the Division I level in 2021-22 and enters the 2026-27 season ranked 15th all-time with 792 victories. Altman is the winningest head coach in Oregon history with 382 wins and has led the Ducks to nine NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2016-17, Altman led Oregon back to the Final Four for the first time in 78 years. Coach Altman is one of three coaches to have been named a DI conference coach of the year at four schools, joining Kermit Davis and Cliff Ellis. In 2019, he became the winningest coach in Pac-12 Tournament history and joined Lute Olson (Arizona) as the only coaches to win the conference tournament four times after leading the Ducks to victory in the 2024 Pac-12 Tournament. The 2013 National Coach of the Year and three-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year enters the 2026-27 season 382-182 in Eugene, and 792-425 in 37 seasons as a head coach at the NCAA Division I level in stints at Oregon, Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall. Altman, the 19th head coach in the history of the University of Oregon men’s basketball program, led Oregon to five straight NCAA Tournaments (2013-17) for the first time in school history. Included in his nine NCAA appearances at Oregon are a Final Four (2017), two Elite E