Iowa State On April 27, 2010, Iowa State University announced that Hoiberg would take over as head basketball coach, replacing
Greg McDermott, who left ISU to take the head coaching position at
Creighton. In taking over the reins at ISU, Hoiberg became the school's 19th men's basketball coach. He won his first game, an unofficial exhibition, over
Dubuque on November 5, 2010, 100–50. Hoiberg won his first official game against
Northern Arizona, 78–64, on November 12, 2010, while his first
Big 12 victory came against
Baylor, 72–57, on January 15, 2011, in Hilton Coliseum. In
2011–12, Hoiberg led the Cyclones to a 23–11 record and the program's first
NCAA basketball tournament appearance since 2005. The season also included the team's first ranking in the AP Top 25 poll since 2005. Hoiberg was declared 2012 Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year after winning nine more games during the 2012 conference season than in 2011, the largest season-to-season improvement in Big 12 history. In April 2013, Hoiberg signed a 10-year contract extension with Iowa State worth $20 million. Hoiberg's contract had a $2 million buyout clause if he left for another college coaching position, but the buyout was only $500,000 if he left to become an NBA head coach or general manager. Hoiberg became the fastest coach in Iowa State history to notch 100 wins (in 148 games) on December 31, 2014, when Iowa State defeated
Mississippi Valley State in Hilton Coliseum.
Chicago Bulls On June 2, 2015, the
Chicago Bulls hired Hoiberg as head coach under a 5-year contract worth $25 million. In his rookie season as head coach, the Bulls missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years, failing to meet preseason expectations. In his second season, the Bulls lost in the first round of the playoffs to the
Boston Celtics after taking a 2–0 lead, and were again perceived as underachieving. In March 2017, ESPN ranked Hoiberg as the worst head coach in the league. On December 3, 2018, the Bulls fired Hoiberg after a 5–19 start to the
2018–19 season. Hoiberg was replaced by
Jim Boylen as head coach.
Nebraska On March 30, 2019, Hoiberg was named head coach of the
Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team. Hoiberg was born in Lincoln and his grandfather
Jerry Bush was the head men's basketball coach at Nebraska from 1954 to 1963. On March 11, 2020, during the Cornhuskers' first-round game in the
Big Ten tournament against
Indiana, Hoiberg fell ill. He was in visible discomfort for much of the game; when the camera panned to him at one point, he was wiping his head with his hand. He left the bench and went to the hospital with four minutes to go in the game, which the Cornhuskers lost. Amid concerns about
COVID-19, the entire Cornhusker team was quarantined in the locker room for two hours after the game. Ultimately, Hoiberg was diagnosed with
influenza A. In a statement posted to Twitter, Hoiberg said that he had been cleared to coach that night by tournament doctors. He stated that he would have never knowingly put "my team, my family, or anyone else" in danger. According to ESPN, the scare over Hoiberg, combined with
Rudy Gobert of the
Utah Jazz testing positive for COVID that night, led to a whirlwind of moves the following day that contributed to the effective end of the 2019–20 collegiate sports season. By Thursday afternoon, nearly every Division I conference had called off their tournaments, followed by the NCAA canceling that year's
basketball tournament and all other spring tournaments. Soon afterward, nearly every Division I conference suspended play in all sports indefinitely. In his fifth year as head coach at Nebraska in 2023–24, Hoiberg was named Big Ten Co-Coach of the Year after leading Nebraska to 22 wins during the regular season, the second-highest total in school history. The Huskers' third-place finish in the Big Ten was the program's best since joining the conference, and best by Nebraska since 1992–93. Hoiberg was the Huskers' first Big Ten Coach of the Year since Tim Miles was tabbed by the conference coaches in 2014 and fifth NU head coach to earn conference accolades. The award marked the second time that Hoiberg has been named coach of the year, as he was named Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year in 2012 with Kansas' Bill Self. Hoiberg signed a contract extension on March 19, 2024, after leading the Huskers back to the
NCAA tournament for the eighth time in school history and first since
2014. The
2025-26 season was one of the best seasons in Nebraska men's basketball history. The Huskers started the season on a 20-game winning streak, the longest in program history (the previous record was 10 games in the 1977–78 season). Nebraska also achieved the highest ranking of any school in Nebraska later in the season, being ranked fifth in the AP Top 25 poll in the Week 12 release (January 26). The winning streak ended on January 27, when No. 5 Nebraska fell to No. 3 Michigan, 75–72. On March 9, 2026, Hoiberg signed a three-year extension to remain as head coach of Nebraska. Hoiberg is under contract through the 2031–32 season. Ten days later, on March 19, 2026, he led the Huskers to their first NCAA tournament win, against
Troy University, after 8 losses in prior tournaments. The Huskers would win in the Round of 32 against
Vanderbilt, 74–72; before falling to
rival Iowa in the school's first Sweet 16 appearance, 77–71. The Huskers set the record set the program record for most wins in a season with 28. On April 3, Hoiberg was named the
Men's Basketball Coach of the Year by the
Associated Press. He was the first Nebraska men's basketball coach to earn the award, and second Nebraska coach to win the award, as
Connie Yori won the women's counterpart in the
2009-10 season. ==Head coaching record==