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April 12, 2024
Fulks transitions to Division I
Juli Fulks, who led Transylvania to the 2023 Division III women's basketball national championship and to the 2024 national semifinals, is taking the head coaching job at Marshall.
April 12, 2024
Trinity coach garners D-I attention
Emily Garner, head women's basketball coach at Trinity (Conn.), will be moving to the Ivy League to take over as head coach at Cornell, adding to the list of D-III coaches moving directly to D-I head coaching jobs in recent seasons.
March 18, 2024
McVean to retire from RIT
Bob McVean, who picked up his 600th career win earlier this season at RIT, will retire with 613 to his name.
March 14, 2024
Brockport elevates Clarke to head men’s basketball coach
Athletic director Erick Hart elevated Joe Clarke to full-time head coach of Brockport's men's basketball program on Thursday. Clarke served this past season as the interim head coach for the Golden Eagles. Clarke, previously Brockport's associate head coach prior to the retirement of longtime coach Greg Dunne in 2023, has been on the Brockport staff since 2009 and has played a major role in helping to guide one of the most successful programs in the SUNYAC for the past 15 years.
March 12, 2024
Buena Vista names Boettcher as women's coach
BVU interim director of athletics Amy Maier has announced the hiring of Kylee Boettcher as head women’s basketball coach. Boettcher takes over for David Wells, who resigned last month after five years as head coach.
September 20, 2023
Dunne announces retirement from Brockport
Greg Dunne, the 24-year head coach of Brockport's men's basketball team, is stepping down shortly before the season to make room for his assistant as an interim successor.
August 1, 2023
Miller calls it a career at Whitewater
After 22 years as head men's basketball coach at his alma mater, a time which includes two national titles, Pat Miller retires and will hand a returning Final Four team over to his assistant.
May 22, 2023
Rowan mourns loss of champion coach, player
Demetrius Poles, who helped Rowan win the 1996 Division III national championship and then coached the Profs' women to two conference crowns, passed away on Saturday night. The two-time NJAC Coach of the Year was 50 years old.
May 15, 2023
SCAC makes another move
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will have a whole new look in the fall of 2024, as two more schools make the jump from the American Southwest Conference, leaving the ASC at risk of falling apart. More in Conference Shuffle, on D3sports.com.
April 27, 2023
Dernbach returns to Stevens Point
Kent Dernbach, who was an assistant coach at UW-Stevens Point for their final men's basketball national title, will return to take over the program after the end of the Bob Semling administration.
April 19, 2023
Lang steps down as head women's basketball coach after 20 seasons at Brooklyn
After 20 seasons guiding the Brooklyn College Women's Basketball program, Alex Lang will be stepping down as Head Women's Basketball Coach, ending a historic era for the Bulldogs. Lang will continue with Brooklyn College in his role as Associate Director of Athletics. The Bulldogs are coming off of completing a three-peat as CUNYAC Champions, making their fourth trip to the NCAA tournament in five seasons, and extending their win-streak to 46 games against conference opponents. Lang ends his 20-season coaching career with 340 wins, the all-time leader in CUNYAC women's basketball. Coach Lang's legacy puts him in an elite class of coaches not only at Brooklyn College and the CUNYAC, but in the entire NCAA. A replacement will be announced in the near future.
"When I arrived at BC in 2002, I was determined to turn the program around and achieve greatness," said Lang. "Seeing those goals achieved has been amazing and brought me a sense of accomplishment and pride, however, it is the people who I have worked with, coached and mentored over the years, and the memories that we share, that I cherish most of all. Stepping down from coaching is a difficult decision, but I am confident that the program will continue to flourish. What we have built here is bigger than me, it is the culmination of so many incredible student-athletes and coaches who sacrificed for the good of the team and made Brooklyn College Women's Basketball what it is today."
April 2, 2023
Spanbauer announces retirement from Cortland
Tom Spanbauer has announced his retirement after 28 years as head coach of the SUNY Cortland men's basketball program. He will continue to work at Cortland as the women's tennis head coach – a position he's held since 2006 – and as a physical education instructor. A national search will be conducted for the position later this spring.
March 4, 2023
Huntingdon making coaching change
It turned out Caleb Kimbrough was a hard act to follow at Huntingdon, as David Gurganus has resigned as the Hawks' head coach.
March 1, 2023
Coppolino steps down at George Fox
In April 2019, Michael Coppolino went from New York to Oregon to take over a Division III women's basketball program with a history of success, but history did not repeat itself.
March 1, 2023
Semling out at Stevens Point
After 17 years and two national championships, but also a suspension, a show-cause order, and a 3-23 mark in the WIAC over the past two seasons, Bob Semling's tenure as men's basketball head coach at UW-Stevens Point is over.
November 1, 2022
2022 Coaching Carousel
Check out the coaching changes leading into the 2022-23 Division III basketball season.
February 24, 2021
2021 coaching carousel
Division III basketball coaching changes following the 2020-21 partial season.
February 24, 2020
2020 coaching carousel
Division III basketball coaching changes following the 2019-20 season, from retirements announced midseason to offseason moves.
November 1, 2019
2019 coaching carousel
Division III basketball coaching changes following the 2018-19 season, from retirements announced midseason to offseason moves.
February 16, 2018
2018 coaching carousel
Division III basketball coaching changes following the 2017-18 season, from retirements announced midseason to offseason moves.
February 24, 2017
2017 coaching carousel
Division III basketball coaching changes headed into the 2017-18 season, from retirements announced midseason to offseason moves.
February 22, 2016
2016 coaching carousel
Check out the coaching changes leading into the 2016-17 Division III basketball season
April 1, 2015
2015 coaching carousel
Check out the coaching changes leading into the 2014-15 Division III basketball season.
April 1, 2014
2014 coaching carousel
Follow all of the head coaching changes leading into the 2014-15 Division III basketball season.