Tommy Lloyd

Tommy Lloyd was named head coach at the University of Arizona on April 14, 2021 after serving as an assistant coach at Gonzaga the last 22 seasons, where he developed 19 All-Americans and 15 conference players of the year and contributed to five straight 30-win seasons and two appearances in the national championship game.

Lloyd's contract at Arizona is for five seasons starting with the 2021-22 season.

Lloyd served as an administrative assistant at Gonzaga for Mark Few during the 2000-01 season before being promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2001-02 season. In his 20 seasons in Spokane, the Zags posted a record of 578-109 (.841) and reached the NCAA Tournament every year, going as far as the title game twice, the Elite Eight twice and the Sweet 16 four times. Gonzaga was also ranked No. 1 in the country for the first time in program history in 2012-13 and then again ascended to the top spot in 2016-17, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21.

During his tenure, Lloyd and the Zags won 19 West Coast Conference regular season titles and 15 WCC Tournament championships with the help of 87 all-WCC honorees, including nine newcomers of the year and six defenders of the year.

Coach Lloyd was instrumental in the Zags signing and developing NBA players, including two-time NBA All-Star Domantas Sabonis, Rui Hachimura, Kelly Olynyk, Zach Collins, Adam Morrison, Brandon Clarke, Kyle Wiltjer, Austin Daye, Robert Sacre, Ronny Turiaf, Jeremy Pargo and Elias Harris.

Lloyd has used his knowledge of the European game to help Gonzaga players earn professional contracts overseas while also helping to cultivate recruiting relationships that have led to the signing of international players such as Martynas Arlauskas (Lithuania), Joel Ayayi (France), Oumar Ballo (Mali) and Pavel Zakharov (Russia). Also included among his former players are Japanese National Team member Hachimura; Polish National Team member Przemek Karnowski; Lithuanian National Team member Sabonis (the son of Naismith Hall of Famer Arvydas Sabonis); Canadians Kevin Pangos, Olynyk and Sacre; Germans Harris and Mathis Mönninghoff; JP Baptista of Brazil; Frenchmen Turiaf, Killian Tillie and Mathis Keita; Filip Petrusev of Serbia; Guy Landry Edi of the Ivory Coast; and Addullahi Kuso of Nigeria.

The Zags have had one of the most potent offenses in the nation over the last 20 years, joining North Carolina and Duke as the only three schools in the country to average more than 80 points per game. Gonzaga also led the country in overall field goal percentage (49.6%) and three-point field goal percentage (37.9%) in that span.

A 1993 graduate of Kelso High School in Washington, Lloyd went on to attend Walla Walla Community College for two seasons and was an All-Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges All-East Region selection in 1995. Following his graduation from WWCC, he finished his career at Whitman College, earning his degree in biology and a secondary teaching credential. He played professionally in Brisbane, Australia in 1997 and Dusseldorf, Germany in 1999.

Lloyd and his wife, Chanelle, have three children - Liam, Sofia Marie and Maria Alexis.