Matthew Lottich ( ; born July 29, 1982) is an American basketball coach who was previously the head coach of the Valparaiso University men's basketball team. He was named head coach on April 7, 2016, one day after

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left the program. He was terminated as head coach on March 23, 2023. Lottich had been an assistant at Valparaiso since 2013. Lottich was hired as Associate Head Coach at

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in August 2024. After one season at Brown he was hired as assistant coach at

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Career

Lottich went to

New Trier High School New Trier High School (, also known as New Trier Township High School or NTHS) is a public four-year high school whose main campus for sophomores through seniors is in Winnetka, Illinois, United States, with a campus in Northfield, Illinois, for ...

in Winnetka, IL where he was an all-state athlete in basketball, baseball, and as a quarterback in football. He played collegiately at

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, where he earned Honorable Mention All-Pac-10 accolades as a senior. After college, Lottich played professional basketball internationally. He played in New Zealand for the

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of the NBL in 2004. He played two stints for the Japanese

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with the

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from 2005 to 2008, and the

Oita Heat Devils The are a Japanese professional basketball team based in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, that competes in the second division of the B.League. The team was founded in 2005 as the Oita HeatDevils, one of the founding members of the bj league. The tea ...

from 2009 to 2012. Lottich also played in the

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for the

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from 2008 to 2009.

Head coach career record

References

External links

Valparaiso Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lottich, Matt 1982 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Germany American expatriate basketball people in Japan American expatriate basketball people in New Zealand American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from Illinois Ehime Orange Vikings players New Trier High School alumni Osaka Evessa players Sportspeople from Winnetka, Illinois Basketball players from Cook County, Illinois Stanford Cardinal men's basketball players Valparaiso Beacons men's basketball coaches Guards (basketball)