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| Mike McGarvey, a D3hoops.com All-America selection in 2005 and 2006, returns to Division III as head coach at Lycoming. Colgate athletics photo |
Just about 10 percent of Division III men's basketball programs will have new head coaches this season, as 44 schools made changes this past offseason, including one which changed head coaches twice. Of the 44 new head coaches, 28 (63.6 percent) were most recently assistant men's basketball coaches, and 20 of those 28 were most recently assistants at Division III schools. Twelve were most recently men's basketball head coaches, two of them coming out of retirement or leaving non-coaching work. Two were high school head coaches, one an AAU coach and one was a professional basketball player overseas.
The most prominent changes included Pat Juckem moving from UW-Oshkosh to Washington U. after the retirement of Mark Edwards, Guy Rancourt going from Lycoming to his alma mater of Western Connecticut State, former D3hoops.com All-America selection Mike McGarvey taking over at Lycoming and former Birmingham-Southern head coach Mitch Cole returning to D-III as head coach at Berry.
A full list of changes follows, with links to D3hoops.com stories where available.
| School | Previous coach | '17-18 | New coach | Previous school | Position |
| Berry | Jeff Rogers | 11-18 | Mitch Cole | Arkansas-Little Rock | MBB assistant |
| Brandeis | Brian Meehan | 7-18 | Jeff Bain | Columbia | MBB assistant |
| Brooklyn | Rich Micaleff | 7-19 | Jeff Jean-Baptiste* | Brooklyn | MBB assistant |
| Buena Vista | Brian Van Haaften | 17-9 | Todd Lorenson | Southwest CC (Iowa) | MBB head coach |
| Chatham | Andrew Garcia | 7-18 | David Richards | Merrimack | MBB assistant |
| Clarks Summit | Joel Nietz | 1-24 | Brian Deschaine | Grace Christian Academy (Md.) | HS head coach |
| Curry | Matt LeVangie | 1-24 | Joseph Busacca | Manhattanville | MBB assistant |
| Eastern Mennonite | Kirby Dean | 12-15 | Melvin Felix | Eastern Mennonite | MBB assistant |
| Emmanuel | Jamahl Jackson | 3-22 | Danny Lawson | Endicott | MBB assistant |
| FDU-Florham | Peter Marion | 3-22 | Jeff Slanovec | Gettysburg | MBB assistant |
| Framingham State | Peter Mugar | 6-20 | Bill Raynor | Lesley (see below) | MBB head coach |
| Frostburg State | Webb Hatch | 11-15 | Sean Brown Sr. | Pitt-Bradford | MBB head coach |
| Gettysburg | George Petrie | 7-18 | B.J. Dunne | Vassar | MBB head coach |
| Illinois College | Mike Worrell | 8-17 | Steve Schweer | North Central (Ill.) | MBB assistant |
| Kean | Rob Kurzinsky | 7-18 | Adam Hutchinson | Amherst | MBB assistant |
| Lancaster Bible | Zach Filzen | 23-6 | Andrew Wingreen | Bethel (Ind.) | MBB assistant |
| Lawrence | Chris Kellett * | 11-13 | Zach Filzen | Lancaster Bible | MBB head coach |
| Lesley | Chris Giordano | 13-14 | Bill Raynor | Retirement | MBB head coach 2017 |
| Lesley | Bill Raynor | 0-0 | Devon Mayo | Lesley | MBB assistant |
| Lewis & Clark | Dinari Foreman | 8-17 | Tim McCrory | Oberlin | MBB assistant |
| Lycoming | Guy Rancourt | 19-7 | Mike McGarvey | Colgate | MBB assistant |
| Macalester | Tim Whittle | 3-22 | Abe Woldeslassie | Siena | MBB assistant |
| Marian | Mark Boyle | 11-14 | Drake Diener | N/A | Pro player (Italy) |
| New York University | Joe Nesci | 10-14 | Dagan Nelson | N/A | AAU head coach |
| Nichols | Tom Glynn | 25-4 | Scott Faucher | Bowdoin | MBB assistant |
| Pacific | Jerod Gibson * | 12-13 | Justin Lunt | Puget Sound | MBB head coach |
| Penn College | Ryan Callahan | 3-22 | Geoff Hensley | Thomas | MBB head coach |
| Penn State-Berks | Timothy Redding | 2-22 | Rich Miller | None (hotel manager) | ex-MBB head coach |
| Pfeiffer | Jeremy Currier | 21-4 | Pete Schoch | Pfeiffer | MBB assistant |
| Pitt-Bradford | Sean Brown Sr. | 4-21 | Ryan Shay | Rochester | MBB assistant |
| Puget Sound | Justin Lunt | 18-7 | Aubrey Shelton | Lincoln High School (Wash.) | HS head coach |
| Rhode Island College | Michael Byrnes | 8-18 | Tom Glynn | Nichols | MBB head coach |
| Rhodes | Mike DeGeorge | 13-13 | Tyler Papadinis | MIT | MBB assistant |
| Salisbury | Andy Sachs | 18-9 | Brian McDermott * | Salisbury | MBB assistant |
| Southern Vermont | Dan Engelstad | 22-6 | Brian Johnson | Prince George's CC (Md.) | MBB head coach |
| Southern Virginia | Tony Caputo | 11-14 | Greg Winslow | Southern Virginia | MBB assistant |
| St. Mary's (Minn.) | Jamison Rusthoven | 1-24 | Joe Fano | North Park | MBB assistant |
| Thomas | Geoff Hensley | 14-12 | Joe Scheuers | Earlham | MBB assistant |
| Thomas More | Drew Cooper | 23-6 | Justin Ray | Mount St. Joseph | MBB assistant |
| UW-Oshkosh | Pat Juckem | 25-8 | Matt Lewis * | UW-Oshkosh | MBB assistant |
| UW-Stout | Eddie Andrist | 8-17 | Brian Lake | Ferris State | MBB assistant |
| Vassar | B.J. Dunne | 9-17 | Ryan Mee | Davidson | MBB assistant |
| Washington U. | Mark Edwards | 22-4 | Pat Juckem | UW-Oshkosh | MBB head coach |
| Western Connecticut | Jason Harlow * | 14-13 | Guy Rancourt | Lycoming | MBB head coach |
| Worcester State | David Lindberg | 3-22 | Travis Hundley | Keene State | MBB assistant |
| * Indicates interim hire |