Doug Tolin

Head Men's Basketball Coach

Baxter First Level,
Agee Dormitory
405.878-2146

OBU Box 61202
500 W. University
Shawnee, OK  74804

Doug Tolin, coach at OBU since 2000-01, has led the Bison to five consecutive NAIA Tournaments, reaching at least the quarterfinal round four times. Voted SAC Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2003, Tolin led his Bison to three consecutive regular season titles in those seasons. In his second season, Tolin took the team to the NAIA championship game.

 

His 2002 squad reached the NAIA championship game and his Bison have been in the national semifinals in 2002 and in 2006. Tolin’s teams have won at least one game at the NAIA Tournament every season since he took over the program. Those Bison squads have won at least two games at the NAIA Championships in all but one season.

 

Tolin has put together four 30-or-more-win teams, with his lowest win total being a 25-win campaign.

 

Tolin has coached four All-NAIA Tournament picks, five first-team All-Americans and one NAIA Players of the Year, as well as three All-America honorable mention selections and 10 NAIA All-America Scholar Athletes.

 

A 1975 graduate of East Central University, Tolin, holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in secondary education, also from ECU. He attended high school at Bartlesville Sooner High School, graduating in 1971.

 

He was selected OBCA, Oklahoma Coaches Association and All-City Coach of the Year in 1999 and owns more than 10 other conference, regional and district Coach of the Year awards. He has accumulated 339 wins in his 24 years of coaching.

 

He was selected to coach the Faith 7 Game in 1993 and coached the Oklahoma All-Stars to a 108-107 win over Texas.

 

 Tolin and his wife, Susan, have three children, Christy, Kyle and Keely.