Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- tyler_patch@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- 2020
- Alma Mater:
- Rhode Island College '14
Tyler Patch was named an assistant coach for Brown women's basketball in 2020. Patch is in his second stint with the team after serving as an assistant for four years from 2014-18.
Patch returned to Brown after spending two seasons (2018-20) as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Merrimack College. In Merrimack’s inaugural Division I season in 2019-20, Patch helped lead the team to a 20-9 overall record and 13-5 Northeast Conference mark, placing third in the conference’s regular season standings. He mentored Denia Davis-Stewart who earned both NEC Player of the Year and NEC Defensive Player of the Year accolades. The Warriors' 2018-19 season featured the fourth 20-win season in school history and first in 14 years while Davis-Stewart garnered NE10 Defensive Player of the Year honors. Brown’s 2020-21 competitive season was canceled due to COVID-19.
In the 2017-18 season, Patch and the Bears won their second straight Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament title and began the year with a program-best 12-1 start. The Bears finished above .500 for the third straight year with a 15-12 overall record and set program records for points against a Division I opponent (102) and for single-season team free throw percentage (.752).
During the 2016-17 season, Patch aided Brown to an appearance in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament and to a spot in the Women’s Basketball Invitational, gaining the program’s first-ever win in a national postseason tournament. Brown set single-season program records for games played (30), points (2,169), field goals made (779), 3-pointers made (226), and free throw percentage (.739) while winning the inaugural Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament.
In 2015-16, Patch helped lead the Bears to their first sweep of the state of Rhode Island’s three Division I basketball programs in program history in 2015-16 as the Bears notched a 12-2 non-conference record, the team’s most non-league wins since 1975. He aided Shayna Mehta ’19 in becoming the unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year while Jordin Alexander ’16 earned All-Ivy honors and became Brown’s 19th 1,000-point scorer.
As a volunteer assistant coach with Brown in 2014-15, Patch helped the Bears finish second in the Ivy League in scoring (65.5 points per game) and first in the league in steals (10.1 per game). He coached a pair of All-Ivy players in Sophie Bikofsky ’15 and Alexander while helping the Bears notch their first road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth since Feb. 26-27, 1993.
Patch, a North Attleboro, Mass., native, joined the Brown staff after serving one season as UMass Lowell’s Director of Women’s Basketball Operations in 2013-14.
Previously, Patch was the Junior Varsity Head Coach/Varsity Assistant Coach at Dedham High School as the team qualified for the MIAA Division III State Tournament in 2012-13. During the 2011-12 campaign, he served as a Student-Assistant Coach under Bob Walsh at Rhode Island College, guiding the Anchormen to an at-large bid in the Division III NCAA Tournament.
Patch earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Rhode Island College in 2014.
Patch and his wife Jacqueline have one son, Henry.
