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2022-2023 marks the fourth season that the Sea Lion's men's basketball team has been led by Head Coach Matt Logie.

Over his 11 years as a head coach, his career record of 247-54 gives Coach Logie the fifth-highest winning percentage in the history of all NCAA college basketball coaches, with his teams winning 82.1 percent of their games. Only two active coaches (Mark Few of Gonzaga & Jim Crutchfield of Nova Southeastern) have higher win percentages than Coach Logie, whose winning percentage surpasses coaching legends such as John Wooden (UCLA), Dean Smith (UNC), and Mike Krzyzewski (Duke). Coach Logie’s teams have qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 10 of his 11 years as a head coach at two different institutions. 

The 2021-2022 season marked Coach Logie’s third season at Point Loma and began with a historic 77-50 exhibition game victory over WCC opponent Pepperdine University in what was the first Division I opponent to ever compete at Point Loma. After overcoming a rash of injuries throughout the season, the Sea Lions would go on to win 21 games, and finish the regular season on an 11-game winning streak while capturing the first PacWest Regular Season Championship in the Coach Logie era. The Sea Lions were selected as the fourth seed in the 2022 NCAA West Regional, their fifth consecutive year qualifying for the NCAA Tournament which is the longest current streak of any Division II program in the West Region. 

The 2021-2022 team reflected many of the traits that Coach Logie’s teams are known for as they finished the season ranked third nationally in free throw percentage (80.6%), fourth nationally in 3-point field goals made (341) as well as being ranked in the Top-25 of five other offensive categories. In addition to the team success, Junior Kaden Anderson was again named PacWest Player of the Year on his way to earning All-West Region and All-American accolades while Ben Okhotin and Brock Mackenzie garnered Second Team All-PacWest recognition and Myles Franklin was named to the Third Team. 

The 2020-2021 season was an abbreviated season due to Covid but furthered the foundation that Coach Logie has built with the Sea Lions. A regionally-based schedule allowed for the Sea Lions to take the floor just 11 times during the 2020-2021 season but resulted in 8 victories and another at-large selection to the NCAA West Regional after being ranked among the nation's top-10 teams early in the year.  

In his first year at the helm, Logie guided the Sea Lions to a 24-6 record (18-4 PacWest) and made conference history by becoming the first men's basketball team to win back-to-back PacWest Tournament Championships. Point Loma was ranked multiple times during the season, rising as high as No. 16. He also coached Darnell Robateau to the PacWest Newcomer of the Year award and Kaden Anderson to All-Region honors. During the season, Logie picked up his 200th career win with a victory over Notre Dame de Namur and the Sea Lions posted a 3.30 team grade point average.

Logie joined Point Loma after spending the previous eight seasons as the head coach at Whitworth. During his tenure, the Pirates won .847 percent of their games and his teams earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament in seven of his eight seasons. He guided Whitworth to five straight Northwest Conference Regular Season Championships from 2011 to 2016, and six Northwest Conference Tournament titles (2011-16 & 2017-18).

He was a three-time NWC Coach of the Year and a two-time finalist for the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year. Logie led Whitworth to a No. 1 national ranking in 2015-16, and he is the only coach in NCAA Division III history to win 100 games in his first four years. His teams have also been strong in the classroom with a 3.30 grade point average over his eight years at the helm.

Prior to joining Whitworth, Logie played and was an assistant coach at Division I Lehigh. He was a student-athlete for the Mountain Hawks from 1999-2003 and graduated as the school's seventh all-time leading scorer (1,524 points). He would go on to work as an assistant coach for five seasons at his alma mater before being promoted to associate head coach for two years. While there he recruited CJ McCollum, the 2013 NBA Draft pick and current member of the New Orleans Pelicans and helped lead the Mountain Hawks into the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The team whom Coach Logie helped to build at Lehigh before leaving for Whitworth in 2011 would go on to beat Duke in the 2012 NCAA Tournament in one of March Madness’ greatest upsets. 

Logie graduated Lehigh with an undergraduate degree in Journalism and a master's in Educational Leadership. He is married to Julia, and the couple has two children, Addy and Luke.