Matt Brown
William G. Tierney Head Men's Lacrosse Coach · Denver
Named head coach in 2023
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Final Fours × 125
- NCAA tournament wins × 28
- Career wins × 266.5
- Players drafted × 26
- Conference regular-season titles × 14
- NCAA tournament appearances × 13
- Head-coaching seasons × 33
How it's scored: the board explains the weights (a national title is 100, a Final Four 25, a Tewaaraton winner 25).
Key numbers
- Career W-L
- 26-19
- D1 head coach · .578
- NCAA appearances
- 1
- NCAA wins
- 2
- Final Fours
- 1
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 1 / 0
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 0
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 2
Every number counts his Division I head-coaching jobs only. — is unknown (not found in the public pages read), never zero. A + means at least that many; * marks a record missing a D1 job or a season.
Career
- 26-19 (thru 2026)
Head coach · William G. Tierney Head Men's Lacrosse Coach · 2024–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2024Final Four · Conference regular-season title
The seasons the pages name. A bio's narrative may not name every season, so this list can be short of his totals above.
Tewaaraton Award
None credited to him as head coach.
Credited to the head coach of the player's school that season. Winners 2001–2026; finalists 2024–2026 only (older finalist lists aren't on the foundation's site).
All-Americans
— USILA's full lists couldn't be read yet, so no All-American is counted for any coach. What his school says is below.
In the school's words
- “11 USILA First Team All-America, nine USILA Second Team All-America, six USILA Third Team All-America, 25 USILA All-America Honorable Mention selections (players he coached at Denver, including as an assistant)” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://denverpioneers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://denverpioneers.com/news/2023/4/19/mens-lacrosse-matt-brown-tabbed-as-next-denver-mens-lacrosse-head-coach.aspx · year named head coach, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found)
- https://denverpioneers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/matt-brown/681 · career stops, career record, record at his school, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Pioneers_men%27s_lacrosse · record, conference titles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_lacrosse_tournament_appearances_by_school · NCAA appearances, NCAA wins, Final Fours
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · title games, championships
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.