Background
Graham was born in Louisville, Ohio and graduated from Louisville High School in 1973.
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Graham was born in Louisville, Ohio and graduated from Louisville High School in 1973.
After high school, Graham attended the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene and played at guard on the Oregon Ducks men"s basketball team from 1973 to 1977 under Dick Harter. Graham graduated from the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences in 1978 with a degree in biology. Graham left Louisville in 1982, the year he completed a master"s degree in educational administration at Dayton.
He is a former head men"s basketball coach at Boise State University. As a senior, Graham was team captain and was the team"s leading scorer with 21.7 points per game, as well as the leading rebounder (98). High school (1978–1982)
Graham stayed in Eugene after graduating from UO to be assistant coach at Marist Catholic High School for one season.
In 1979, Graham became varsity boys" basketball head coach at alma mater Louisville High School and enrolled in graduate school at the University of Dayton.
Early college coaching career (1982–1984)
Graham returned to the University of Oregon to be assistant coach under Jim Haney for the 1982-1983 season. The following season, Graham became an assistant at New Mexico under Gary Colson, in a season where New Mexico made the National Institute of Technology. Western New Mexico (1984–1985)
Graham had his first head coaching job at Western New Mexico in the 1984-1985 season.
He led Western New Mexico to an 18–5 record during a season on probation by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Later college assistant coaching career (1985–2002)
From 1985 to 1989, Graham was assistant coach at San Jose State under Bill Berry. Graham then moved to San Diego State to coach under Jim Brandenburg, from 1989 to 1992.
Graham then was an assistant coach at Saint Mary"s from 1992 to 1997 in the first of several assistant coaching stints under Ernie Kent.
In 1997, Graham had his second stint as assistant coach at Oregon and second assistant coaching job under Ernie Kent. In five seasons with Graham as assistant coach, Oregon made the 1999 National Institute of Technology semifinals and 2000 National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament, as well as the Pac-10 regular season championship and Elite Eight round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament in 2002. Boise State (2002–2010)
Athletic director Gene Bleymaier hired Graham to be head coach at Boise State in 2002.
In eight seasons, Graham had a 142–112 record at Boise State and led Boise State to a berth in the 2004 National Institute of Technology, 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament and 2009 China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations. In 2010, after a 15–17 season, Bleymaier fired Graham and stated: "We appreciate everything that Coach Graham and his staff have contributed to Boise State the past eight years.
We felt that in the best interest of the program we needed to make a change."
Assistant coaching after Boise State (2011–2014)
In 2011, Graham became an assistant coach again, this time at Bradley under Geno Ford. After three seasons at Bradley, Graham became an assistant coach at Washington State in 2014, for his third coaching stint under Ernie Kent.