{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Tom Hovasse | image = Tom Hovasse.jpg | position = | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 8 | weight_lb = 205 | league = | team = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|1|31}} | birth_place = Durango, Colorado, U.S. | highschool = Widefield (Security, Colorado) | college = Penn State (1985–1989) | draft_year = 1989 | career_start = 1989 | career_end = 2001 | career_number = 17 | career_position = Small forward | coach_start = 2010 | coach_end = | years1 = 1989–1990 | team1 = Sporting Club of Portugal | years2 = 1990–1994 | team2 = Toyota Pacers | years3 = {{nbay|1994|start}} | team3 = Atlanta Hawks | years4 = 1995 | team4 = Pittsburgh Piranhas | years5 = 1995–2000 | team5 = Toyota Pacers | years6 = 2000–2001 | team6 = Toshiba Brave Thunders | cyears1 = 2010–2011 | cteam1 = JX-Eneos Sunflowers (assistant) | cyears2 = 2011 | cteam2 = Japan Women (assistant) | cyears3 = 2012–2013 | cteam3 = Phoenix Mercury (assistant) | cyears4 = 2013–2014 | cteam4 = JX-Eneos Sunflowers (assistant) | cyears5 = 2014–2016 | cteam5 = JX-Eneos Sunflowers (associate head coach) | cyears6 = 2015–2016 | cteam6 = Japan Women (assistant) | cyears7 = 2016–2017 | cteam7 = JX-Eneos Sunflowers | cyears8 = 2017–2021 | cteam8 = Japan Women | cyears9 = 2021–2026 | cteam9 = Japan Men | highlights = *5× JBL Scoring Leader (1990–1993, 1995) | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport|Basketball coaching}} {{MedalCountry|{{bkw|JPN}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver|2020 Tokyo|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|FIBA Asia Cup}} {{MedalGold|2017 Bangalore|Japan}} {{MedalGold|2019 Bangalore|Japan}} {{Medal|Competition|Asian Games}} {{Medal|Bronze|2018 Jakarta | Japan}} }}
'''Thomas Wayne Hovasse''' (born January 31, 1967) is an American basketball coach and former player. After growing up in Security, Colorado, he played college basketball for the Penn State Nittany Lions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hovasto01.html|title=Tom Hovasse|publisher=Basketball Reference|accessdate=August 8, 2021}}</ref> After not being selected in the 1989 NBA draft, he played professional basketball from 1989 to 2001, including a brief stint with the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association during the 1994–95 season and 10 seasons for teams in Japan.
He coached the Japan women's squad to the silver medal at the 2020 Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/2020-tokyo-olympics-sports-japan-france-olympic-team-japan-olympic-team-af65e720fabf47e3bc81b1d513b9b800|title=Not so crazy: Hovasse, Japan making women’s hoops history|publisher=Associated Press|last=Walker|first=Teresa M.|date=August 5, 2021|accessdate=August 8, 2021}}</ref> He was the coach of the Japan men's national basketball team from 2021 to 2026.<ref>{{cite web|title=Basketball: Hovasse replaces Lamas as Japan men's team head coach|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/09/074c0f6a8328-basketball-japan-mens-team-head-coach-lamas-steps-down.html|publisher=Kyodo News|date=21 September 2021|accessdate=25 November 2022}}</ref>
==Career statistics== {{NBA player statistics legend}}
===NBA===
====Regular season==== {{NBA player statistics start}} |- | align="left" | {{nbay|1994}} | align="left" | Atlanta | 2 || 0 || 2.0 || .000 || .000 || – || .0 || .0 || .5 || .0 || 0.0 |- {{s-end}}
==Head coaching record== {{NBA coach statistics legend}} {{NBA coach statistics start}} |- |- style="background:#FDE910;" | style="text-align:left;"|JX | style="text-align:left;"|2016–17 | 27||27||0||{{Winning percentage|27|0}}|| style="text-align:center;"| 1st|||7||7||0||{{Winning percentage|7|0}} | style="text-align:center;"| Champion |- {{s-end}}
Hovasse coached the Japan women's national basketball team at the 2020 Olympics.
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==External links== * {{basketball stats}}
{{Japan Women Basketball Squad 2020 Summer Olympics}}
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