Tolin Bound for OBCA Hall of Fame

June 4, 2008

Oklahoma Baptist University head basketball coach Doug Tolin will be inducted into the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Friday at OBU.

The banquet begins at 7 p.m. in the Geiger Center. Tickets to the event are $12 and may be purchased at the door. The induction class includes Tolin, Wayne Cobb, Phil Ingersoll, Jimmy Williams and Doug Dugger.

In eight years at OBU, Doug Tolin has taken the Bison to eight appearances at the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Tournament.

Tolin claimed back-to-back Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors for 2002 and 2003. In 2002, Tolin coached the NAIA Division I National Player of the Year - Dujuan Brown. The Bison won the conference regular season title for three consecutive seasons from 2002-04, and have won two of the past five conference tournaments.

Former head boys basketball coach at Norman High School, Tolin became OBU's 17th head men's basketball coach in May 2000. He has compiled a 220-64 record.

Tolin, who served as executive secretary of the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association for more than a decade, established a record of 117-44 at Norman High School. His Tigers won the 1999 Class 6A State Tournament and were runners-up in 2000 and in 1996.

He coached four regional and area champions and reached the State Tournament four times with Norman. He also coached Ada High School and Bartlesville High School to State Tournament appearances.

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 Bartlesville Sooner High School, graduating in 1971. He is an inductee in the ECU Athletic Hall of Fame.

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 555 wins in his 30 years of coaching.