2015 coaching carousel
September 22, 2015
After 16 years, Riverso returns to D-III
Ted Riverso coached the University of St. Thomas to Division III women's basketball best record in the 1990s, then left coaching altogether. Now after six years on the bench at the University of Minnesota, Riverso is back in D-III, a few blocks down the street at Augsburg.
August 29, 2015
Augsburg women's coach passes away
Bill McKee, who spent the past four seasons as Augsburg women's basketball head coach, passed away on Thursday morning, Aug. 27, 2015, after a battle with kidney cancer. He was 62 years old.
August 26, 2015
Scranton ends long search with local hire
As Hoopsville previously reported, almost a year after the retirement of Mike Strong, the all-time winningest D-III women's coach, and three months after the interim coach left to take a high school job, Scranton has finally found its next women's basketball coach.
July 15, 2015
Kevin Kovacs returns to Gallaudet to lead men's program
Gallaudet University alum and former Bison student-athlete Kevin Kovacs has been selected as the new men’s basketball head coach as announced by athletic director Michael Weinstock. Kovacs will begin his new duties on August 17.
July 9, 2015
Brown goes from one Bobcat to another
Pitt-Bradford has named longtime Frostburg State assistant men's basketball coach Sean Brown as the new head coach for its women's program.
June 30, 2015
Assistant gets promoted to lead Wesley program
Dean Burrows has seen the Wesley program reach new heights and now he'll have a chance to take them higher. The Wolverines' assistant coach will replace Jerry Kobasa as the head coach.
June 26, 2015
Alumnus returns to coach Salisbury
Andrew Sachs, who is a former Salisbury State assistant and was most recently head coach at Bethany, has returned to take over the Sea Gulls men's basketball program.
June 25, 2015
Curry chooses Wheelock coach to lead men's program
Matt LeVangie moved from one program with recent struggles to another as the Wheelock coach was named the next head men's basketball coach at Curry College. Wheelock assistant coach Mike Pollio fills the Wildcats' vacancy.
June 16, 2015
Heil returns to Baldwin Wallace
Former Baldwin Wallace assistant coach Tom Heil is coming back to the institution as the men's basketball head coach.
June 11, 2015
Filzen named men's coach at Lancaster Bible
Zach Filzen, a women's assistant coach at Northwestern (Minn.) and son of former longtime Carleton coach Tammy Filzen, is getting his first head coaching job.
June 9, 2015
Rissmiller steps down as Pacific women's coach
Rissmiller joins her former George Fox nemesis, Scott Rueck, as the Beavers' director of women's basketball operations. She will be in charge of the program's day-to-day business operations, including travel and budgeting.
June 8, 2015
Rutgers-Newark names interim coach
Former Rowan player and FDU-Teaneck assistant Ashley Cieplicki replaces another interim coach at the helm of the Scarlet Raiders.
June 7, 2015
Bowdoin grad takes over Bates program
Alison Smith, now Alison Montgomery, played at Bowdoin, then coached under Stefanie Pemper at Navy. Now she'll be coaching at her alma mater's rival.
June 3, 2015
Davis named Gettysburg women’s basketball coach
Gettysburg has announced Nate Davis, head women’s basketball coach at Eastern, will take over the women’s basketball program at Gettysburg following the retirement of long-time mentor Mike Kirkpatrick.
June 2, 2015
Reid promoted; Panepento named head coach
Following five years as head coach of Wooster's women's basketball program, Ashley Reid is taking on a new opportunity as the school's first assistant to the athletic director for diversity and inclusion.
May 30, 2015
Coe coaching changeover
Randi (Peterson) Henderson is taking an assistant position at UNC-Charlotte, and a former Coe assistant will replace her.
May 22, 2015
Former Geneseo player hired at Hilbert
Melissa Graham, a D3hoops.com All-Region player at Geneseo and a high school assistant girls' basketball and head girls' lacrosse coach, will take over a program which has won 14 games in five seasons.
May 12, 2015
Allen promoted to head coach at Southern Maine
Allen, who was an assistant coach for the Huskies this past season, replaces Gary Fifield, who was head coach for 27 of the past 28 seasons.
Allen Replaces Legendary Coach Gary Fifield After 27 Seasons on the USM Bench
May 8, 2015
From the sidelines to the classroom
Brendan Stern, who led Gallaudet to one of its most successful men's basketball seasons in decades, has resigned his head coaching position to take a tenure track teaching politics at the school.
May 6, 2015
Former All-American named Tyler head coach
Two-time D3hoops.com All-America selection Kendra (Anderson) Hassell has been named head coach at UT-Tyler, a conference rival of Hardin-Simmons, her alma mater.
May 5, 2015
Two Baylor assistants named head coaches in ASC
East Texas Baptist and Mary Hardin-Baylor each hired Baylor assistant coaches, as former assistant Mark Morefield will take the ETBU job and current assistant Edsel Hamilton the slot at UMHB.
May 4, 2015
Linfield hires former Oregon State star
Casey Bunn, who led the Pacific-10 in scoring and has been a successful high school coach in Oregon, will take over the Linfield women's basketball program.
April 30, 2015
Merkel returns to Macon
Josh Merkel coached Salisbury, his alma mater to the second round of the NCAA Tournament this past season. But he was also an assistant coach under Nate Davis earlier in his career and now will get the chance to replace him.
April 28, 2015
Amherst assistant gets head coaching job
Matt Goldsmith, who was on four NCAA Tournament teams as a player at Amherst and was an assistant coach for three more, will take over the men's basketball program at TCNJ.
April 28, 2015
Sheldon steps down from alma mater
Baldwin Wallace men's basketball coach Duane Sheldon resigned his position at the University and has accepted a position as athletic director at Dublin Coffman High School.
April 19, 2015
Randolph-Macon coach heads to Division I
After having success with Dave Paulsen and Pat Flannery, Bucknell went the Division III route again, this time taking Nate Davis from Randolph-Macon as its next men's basketball coach.
April 17, 2015
Good tabbed Manchester head coach
Gerad Good, who played under Steve Alford and was an assistant on the program's national runner-up team, returns to Manchester to try to recapture some of that magic.
April 15, 2015
Chad Dickman to take over for father at Hood
With Tom Dickman stepping down to focus full-time on his role as athletic director, Chad Dickman is stepping up to take over the men's basketball head coaching role.
April 14, 2015
Daniel takes on Goucher job
Patrick Daniel, the only women's basketball coach to post three consecutive winning seasons at Pitt-Bradford, will get a shot to turn around the Goucher women's basketball program.
April 14, 2015
Rose returns to Goucher
Tom Rose played for Goucher, then was an assistant coach. Now he returns to Towson, Md., as just the second head coach in the program's history.
April 7, 2015
Murphy retires from Bates
After 21 seasons and 343 victories, Bates women's basketball coach Jim Murphy has decided to retire. The school will begin a national search for a replacement immediately.
April 7, 2015
Oilar gets call to turn Otterbein around
Otterbein selected DePauw assistant coach Brian Oilar to turn around the Cardinals' men's basketball program that hasn't had a winning record since 2007.
April 2, 2015
Gettysburg’s Coach K announces retirement
After raising the bar for not one, but two athletic programs at Gettysburg, head women’s basketball coach Mike Kirkpatrick announced his retirement from the coaching realm on Thursday, April 2.
April 1, 2015
Baribeau resigns after four years at Blackburn
It's been a struggle to build the program at Blackburn, which hasn't had even as many as 10 wins since 2006-07. With five freshmen and two sophomores in the rotation, the Beavers won five SLIAC games, the most in eight years.
April 1, 2015
Linfield women's coach steps down
Robin Potera-Haskins is leaving the Linfield sidelines after five years at the head of the Wildcats' women's basketball program.
March 27, 2015
Charney steps down after frustrating season
After winning the Skyline Conference four times in five seasons, SUNY-Purchase was beset by injuries and started this season 1-10. Jeff Charney and the department have decided to part ways.
March 26, 2015
Penn College men's coach out
Chris Lemasters, who was only the second full-time men's basketball coach in Penn College history, is making way for the third one.
March 25, 2015
Washington College parts ways with Nugent
Washington College has decided to take its men's basketball program in a different direction, parting ways with head coach Rob Nugent, who had served in that role since 2001.
March 24, 2015
Ursinus women's coach announces retirement
Ursinus head women's basketball coach Jim Buckley leaves Ursinus with the second most wins in school history at 151 and led the Bears to the 2007 Centennial Conference title and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
March 23, 2015
Bridgewater men's basketball coach resigns
Bridgewater athletics director Curt Kendall announced that Don Burgess, head coach of the college's men's basketball program for the past seven years, has resigned.
March 17, 2015
After 51 seasons, Jim Smith retiring
St. John's is known for keeping its coaches around. A little over two years after the legendary John Gagliardi retired as football coach, Jim Smith, who has coached basketball for more than half a century, is calling it a career as well.
March 3, 2015
Both Goucher head basketball coaches resign
Leonard Trevino, the only men's basketball coach the Goucher program has ever had, and Didi Cotton, the No. 4 scorer all time in the program's history, resigned at the school on the same day.
March 2, 2015
Simpson men's coach out
After leading the Simpson men's basketball team for the past five seasons, Charles Zanders has resigned as head coach, athletic director Brian Niemuth announced Monday.
March 2, 2015
Muskingum coach Ford announces retirement
Gene Ford, a Muskingum alumnus, announced his retirement after eight years as Muskingum head men's basketball coach. His announcement concludes a storied coaching career that spanned 39 years.
March 1, 2015
Adrian out at Otterbein
Todd Adrian took over a faltering Otterbein program and was unable to turn it around in three years.
February 25, 2015
Walker retiring after 35 seasons at Moravian
Moravian head men's basketball coach Jim Walker has announced his retirement after leading the Greyhounds' program for the last 35 seasons, and 36 years as a collegiate head coach.
February 25, 2015
Nadborne steps down from Manchester coaching position
Manchester athletic director Rick Espeset announced Wednesday, Feb. 25, that Brad Nadborne has stepped down as head men’s basketball coach. He will remain in his role as an instructor for the university’s Exercise and Sport Science department through the end of 2014-15.
January 8, 2015
Rockford men's coach resigns
Ryan Rebsom has stepped down as Rockford men's basketball coach, effective immediately. The Regents are 3-10, 2-6 in the NACC.
November 27, 2014
Titus to retire at end of season
Charlie Titus, the only men's basketball coach that Mass-Boston has ever had, announced that he will retire at the end of this season, his 39th on the Beacons' sideline.
April 1, 2014
2014 coaching carousel
Follow all of the head coaching changes leading into the 2014-15 Division III basketball season.