| After building UW-La Crosse into a Top 25 program, Kent Dernbach has returned to UW-Stevens Point where he won a national championship as an assistant. Photo by Caleb Williams, d3photography.com |
This is where we track all the head coaching changes in Division III men's basketball that occur from the end of the 2022-23 season to the start of the next one. We'll provide links to the news stories posted on schools' websites so you can go deeper into the moves that interest you, plus check out the women's tracker.
If you see anything amiss, please email us at Gordon.Mann@d3sports.com.
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| School | Last Coach |
Replaced |
Last position | Notes |
| Allegheny | Bob Simmons | Josh Clemens | Assistant at Allegheny | Clemens played and coached at USCAA Paul Smith's College in Upstate New York. |
| Alvernia | Mike Miller, Sr. | Mike Miller, Jr. | Assistant at Alvernia | The younger Miller takes over for his father who retired as Alvernia's all-time leader in coaching victories. |
| Bard | Michael Lenahan | David Sloan | Assistant at Carnegie Mellon | Sloan coached at Maine Maritime and then spent five years on the Tartans' staff. |
| Bethany | Mike Worrell | Brad Johnson | Assistant coach at Nebraska Wesleyan | Johnson is a Baldwin Wallace grad who had coaching stops at former D3 member Frostburg State and Division II Seton Hill. |
| Bluffton | Guy Neal | Seth Clark | Assistant coach at Manchester | Clark was a two-time first-team all-conference honoree at Ohio Wesleyan. |
| Brockport | Greg Dunne | Joe Clarke (Interim) |
Assistant coach at Brockport |
Dunne retires with a 271-143 record and three SUNYAC titles in 16 seasons as the Golden Eagles' head coach. |
| Cabrini | Tim McDonald | Ryan Van Zelst | Head coach at Penn State-Abington | Penn State-Abington won a program-high 18 games in Van Zelst's lone season as head coach. |
| Carroll | Paul Comb | Taylor Jannsen | Interim head coach at Carroll |
Jannsen took over as interim head coach for his alma mater two games into the 2022-23 season. |
| Centenary (N.J) | Jason Gelesky | Dirk Kelly | Assistant coach at Centenary | Kelly coached 26 years of high school basketball in New Jersey. |
| Concordia-Chicago | Steve Kollar | Rashaan Surles | Interim head coach at Concordia-Chicago |
Surles is a Chicago native whose prior experience is primarily at the Division I level. |
| Cortland | Tom Spanbauer | Maurice Kearney | Assistant at New York University |
Kearney played at Cortland for four years and was a member of the Red Dragons' coaching staff for eight under Spanbauer. |
| Dominican | Mark White | Troy Tonsil | Assistant at Dominican | Tonsil was an assistant under White since 2012 and also played for the Stars. |
| Eastern Nazarene | Logan Sharp | Aaron Loredo | Assistant at Endicott | Loredo has had coaching stops at Endicott, Nichols and Salem State. |
| FDU-Florham | Jeff Slanovec | Keith Hack | Head coach at Medaille | Hack went 35-45 in four seasons at Medaille, which closes in August. |
| Goucher | Tom Rose | Justin Klingman | Assistant coach at Catholic | Klingman knows the Landmark Conference from his time as a coach (Catholic) and player (Scranton). |
| Greensboro | Jim Cantamessa | Jim Boone | Head coach at D2 Arkansas-Fort Kent | Boone won 602 games as a Division II head coach, which puts him in the top 10 among active coaches. |
| Hunter | John Pelin | Jamel Gist | Head coach at York (N.Y.) |
Gist was the interim head coach at CUNYAC rival York (N.Y.) where he went 21-29 the last two seasons. |
| Huntingdon | David Gurganus | Zac Richards | Assistant coach at Birmingham-Southern | Richards was All-Region in his senior season at Birmingham-Southern. |
| Keene State |
Ryan Cain | David Hastings (Interim) |
Assistant at Keene State | In addition to his coaching experience, Hastings is US Army veteran and the former Police Chief for the Town of Gill, Mass. |
| Johns Hopkins |
Josh Loeffler | Ryan Cain | Head coach at Keene State |
Cain went 146-66 in eight years with Keene State. |
| Kenyon | Dan Priest | Steve Phillips | Assistant coach at Williams | Phillips also coached at Washington and Lee and Mount St. Mary, where he played point guard. |
| Keystone | Brad Cooper | Andrew Kettel | High school head coach in Scranton (Pa.) |
Kettel spent 10 sesaons as the head coach at Scranton Preparatory School. |
| Lake Forest | Ken Davis | Ryan Davis | Interim head coach at Lake Forest | Davis went 17-15 in two seasons as the Foresters' interim head coach. |
| Linfield | Shanan Rosenberg | Levi Sieg | Assistant coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Sieg spent 15 seasons on the coaching staff at CMS. |
| North Central (Ill.) | Anthony Figueroa | Vince Kmiec | Assistant coach at North Central |
Kmiec played four years at NCC where he still holds the career and single-season records for steals. |
| Northland | Scott Sorenson | Cole Schreiner | Head coach at Gogebic Community College | Schreiner was previously the assistant men's basketball coach and head men's and women's golf coach at Northland. |
| Notre Dame (Md.) | None | T.J. Jordan | High school head coach in Maryland |
Jordan will lead the Gators' men's basketball program that will begin play in 2023-24. |
| Penn State-Abington | Ryan Van Zelst | Justin Dunbar-Stevens | Head coach at Penn St-Brandywine | Dunbar-Stevens was the head coach at Penn St-Brandywine which is exploring full members in Division III. |
| Rhode Island College |
Tom Glynn | Sam Ferry | Assistant at D1 Holy Cross |
This is Ferry's maiden voyage into Division III basketball, after playing and coaching at the Division I level. |
| Ripon | Ryan Kane | Kenny Finco | Assistant coach at UW-La Crosse |
Kane left Ripon to become the new Athletic Director at Carthage. |
| Rivier | Lance Bisson | Tom Glynn | Head coach at Rhode Island College | Prior to coaching at RIC, Glynn went 94-20 in four seasons at Nichols. |
| Rowan | Joe Crispin | Eric Brennan (Interim) |
Assistant coach at Rowan |
Before working as Crispin's assistant for five seasons, Brennan coached under Herb Magee at D2 Philadelphia (now Jefferson) University. |
| Southern Virginia |
Adam Wardenburg | Trace Bevell | High school coach in Sandy, Utah |
Bevell coached at the community college level in Nebraska and Wyoming. |
| SUNY Delhi | Zach Thomsen | Jonathan Annan | Academic staff at SUNY Delhi | Annan played at SUNY Delhi when it was a junior college and then finished his bachelor's degree at Farmingdale State. |
| Texas-Dallas | Terry Butterfield | Jared Fleming | Assistant at Texas-Dallas | Butterfield won 553 games over 34 seasons as a head coach at Texas-Dallas and Virginia Wesleyan. |
| UW-La Crosse | Kent Dernbach | JT Gritzmacher | Head coach at NJCAA Bryant & Stratton (Wis.) | Gritzmacher was an assistant coach for his alma mater UW-Whitewater from 2015 - 2017. |
| UW-Stevens Point | Bob Semling | Kent Dernbach | Head coach at UW-La Crosse | Dernbach went 99-66 during his tenure with the Eagles. |
| UW- Whitewater |
Pat Miller | Jarod Wichser (Interim) |
Assistant at UW-Whitewater | Miller went 434-167 and won two national championships (2012, 2014) in 22 seasons with the Warhawks. |
| Valley Forge | TJ Hardeman | Dominique Boone | Head coach at Warren Wilson | Boone previously coached in the Philadelphia region when he was an assistant D2 Chestnut Hill. |
| Warren Wilson |
Dominique Boone | Chris Horton | Assistant at Willamette | Horton attended the University of Florida and coached at Dean College. |
| Washington College |
Aaron Goodman | Corey Begly | Assistant at Connecticut College |
Begly had been Tim Sweeney's lead assistant at Conn College since 2019. |
| Willamette | Kip Ioane | Michael Lenahan | Head coach at Bard | Prior to his two seasons at Bard, Lenahan spent most of his coaching career on the west coast, including as an assistant at NWC rival Whitman. |
| York (N.Y.) | Jamel Gist | Clarence Emengo | Head coach at Queensborough (N.Y.) Community College |
Emengo played and coached at CUNYAC rival Baruch. |