While at Charleston Southern, Platt earned Big South Conference Coach of the Year honors in his first season at the helm.
Platt arrived at Tulsa after being relieved of his duties at his first head coaching job at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
He left Illinois State to join Joey Meyer's coaching staff at DePaul University in 1984, where he spent another six years as an assistant.
Born in Aurora, Illinois, he is an alumnus of Concordia University Chicago, where he played both basketball and baseball as an undergrad.
After graduating from Concordia in 1973, Platt got his start in coaching at Illinois' Luther High School North, where he stayed for five years before transitioning to the collegiate level.