Matt Zimmerman

Matt Zimmerman is a former assistant basketball coach at the University of Arkansas and a former Arkansas Razorbacks basketball team manager. A member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, Zimmerman graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1990. He went on to serve in the United States Army until 1995 reaching the rank of Captain. He then went on to serve as an athletic director and coach at the high school level before joining Mike Anderson's staff at UAB and Missouri. Zimmerman headed up the walk-on tryouts while at both UAB and Missouri.

Playing career Zimmerman was a standout basketball player for Wonderview High School from 1981 to 1985, where his team had a combined 133–19 record in four years capped off by a 36–4 record and a state runner-up finish his junior season.

College coaching career

When Nolan Richardson was let go at the University of Arkansas, the Razorbacks hired Stan Heath rather than long term assistant coach Mike Anderson, who had been an assistant for 17 seasons under Richardson. Instead the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), located in Anderson's home town of Birmingham, Alabama, gave Anderson a chance to be a head coach. Zimmerman joined Anderson's staff at UAB until Anderson accepted the position of head basketball coach at the University of Missouri in 2006. Zimmerman followed Anderson to Missouri and served on his staff as an assistant until Anderson accepted the head coaching job at the University of Arkansas in 2011. On April 6, 2011, it was announced Zimmerman would join Anderson's staff at Arkansas. Zimmerman spent five years as an assistant and then another three years as the Director of Basketball Operations. He is currently a color analyst for the Razorback Sports Network and co-host, with Quinn Grovey, of The Razorback Daily podcast.