Leon Rice (basketball)
Leon Paul Rice (born November 25, 1963) is an American college basketball coach, and the head men's basketball coach at Boise State University. Rice replaced Greg Graham as head coach of the Broncos on March 26, 2010.[1] In his first season as head coach, he led Boise State to the finals of the 2011 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament and to the semifinals of the 2011 College Basketball Invitational. He is the first Boise State head coach to win 20 games in two of his first three seasons and has 20 or more wins in five of his first six seasons. In 2013, he guided the Broncos to their first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. In 2015, he led the Broncos to their first ever Mountain West regular season championship, and first conference title for Boise State since 2008, and was named the Mountain West coach of the year.
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- Staton Hale (1933–1934)
- Max Eiden (1934–1937)
- No team (1937–1939)
- Harry Jacoby (1939–1941)
- George Allison (1941–1942)
- John Glasby (1942–1944)
- Rex Engleking (1944–1945)
- Carl Warner (1945–1946)
- Lyle Smith (1946–1947)
- Bill Richter (1947–1948)
- George Blankley (1948–1962)
- Dale Chatterton (1962–1965)
- Murray Satterfield (1965–1973)
- Bus Connor (1972–1980)
- Dave Leach (1980–1983)
- Bobby Dye (1983–1995)
- Rod Jensen (1995–2002)
- Greg Graham (2002–2010)
- Leon Rice (2010– )
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