tournament_record player_team coach_years current_team player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team current_title sport birth_date current_record current_conference article_title contract name
-lrb- -rrb- : 0 -- 1 ncaa -rrb- : 1 -- 1 -lrb- cit taylor 1998 2008 -- 2010 2010 -- 2013 2013 -- 2014 2014 -- -- present 1999 1999 -- 2003 2003 -- 2008 butler guard 67 -- 65 -lrb- 67 65 -rrb- 1990 -- 1994 geneva -- webb -lrb- asst. -rrb- ohio -lrb- asst. -rrb- gardner -lrb- -- webb butler -lrb- asst. -rrb- butler asst. -rrb- taylor -lrb- asst. -rrb- gardner head coach basketball 11 november 1971 23 -- 11 -lrb- 23 11 -rrb- big east chris holtmann
 salary undisclosed ; contracted through 2020 -- 21 chris holtmann
chris holtmann

chris holtmann -lrb- born november 11 , 1971 -rrb- is an american basketball coach who is currently the head coach at butler .
previously , he was the head coach of gardner-webb .
holtmann grew up in nicholasville , kentucky before playing basketball at taylor university .
in 1994 , his senior year , he earned all-america honors and taylor hit number one in the national association of intercollegiate athletics -lrb- naia -rrb- rankings .
holtmann got his start in coaching as a graduate assistant at taylor in 1997 .
the next year , he became an assistant coach at geneva college , then returned to his alma mater as an assistant in 1999 .
holtmann joined gardner-webb 's staff in 2002 and spent the next five seasons there , first as an assistant coach and then as associate head coach .
after two seasons as an assistant at ohio , he returned the gardner-webb as head coach .
at gardner-webb , he led a successful rebuilding effort culminating in the school 's first division i post season appearance in 2013 .
he was named conference and district coach of the year for his efforts .
in july 2013 , holtmann left gardner-webb to become an assistant coach at butler .
in october 2014 , he took over the program as interim head coach when brandon miller requested a medical leave of absence from the university .
on january 2 , 2015 , holtmann was named the permanent head coach .
he has a reputation of being a strong recruiter , signing multiple conference player of the year athletes , and as a defensive tactician .
