May 28, 2025
| After cutting down the nets at Pitt-Bradford last season, Region 7 Coach of the Year Jesse DeLoof is headed south to lead the Guilford Quakers. Photo by Pitt-Bradford athletics |
This is where we'll track all the head coaching changes in Division III men's basketball until next season starts. We'll provide links to the news stories posted on schools' websites so you can go deeper into the moves that interest you, plus we track the head coaching changes for women's basketball here.
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| School |
Last Coach |
Replaced |
Last position | Notes |
| Baruch | John Alesi | Tammer Farid | Assistant at Baruch | Alesi, who was the chair of the Division III Men's Basketball Committee last season, went 234-130 with five NCAA Tournament appearances in 13 seasons with the Bearcats. Associate head coach Farid fills the void for his alma mater whom he helped lead to the 2011 NCAA Tournament as a player. Tammer's promotion also creates the potential for a brotherly battle since older brother Waleed is now NYU's head coach. |
| Belhaven | Josh Brooks | Boomer Roberts | Head coach at D2 Purdue Northwest |
Brooks, who went 54-27 in three seasons at Belhaven, moves across town to lead the Division II program at his alma mater Mississippi College where he was an assistant for 10 seasons. Roberts went 63-128 in seven seasons at D2 Purdue Northwest. |
| Bethany | Brad Johnson | Brandon Thorsen | Assistant at Bethany | Johnson went 16-34 in two seasons with the Bison. He's followed by Thorsen who first joined Bethany as a graduate assistant in 2021. |
| Bethel | Zach Filzen | Gabe Miller | Assistant at D2 UW-Parkside |
Filzen went 45-55 in four seasons with the Royals. Miller, who played at Anderson, spent six seasons as an assistant at Loras including during the Duhawks' 2018-19 run to the Sweet 16. |
| Buena Vista | Trevor Johnson | Jeff Horner | Head coach at D2 Truman State |
Johnson spent six seasons at BVU and compiled a 75-65 mark. Horner went 121-78 in seven seasons at Truman State where he was a two-time conference coach-of-the-year honoree. |
| Carnegie Mellon | Tony Wingen | Justin Simon | Assistant at D1 Yale | Wingen tallied 390 wins in 35 seasons with the Tartans and led CMU to the NCAA Tournament in 2006, 2009, and 2024. Simon comes to Division III after spending 13 seasons as a player and coach at Yale. |
| CCNY | Spencer Boateng | Daniel Colon | Athletic Director for youth development program |
Boateng, who went 52-46 in four seasons with the Beavers, is the program's first head coach to leave with a winning record since Nat Holman concluded his 37-year coaching career in 1960. He's followed by Colon who played at and graduated from CCNY in 2014. |
| Centenary (La.) | Chris Dorsey | J.A. Anglin | Head coach at Bossier Parish Comm. College (La.) |
Dorsey went 107-91 in eight seasons with the Gents, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2023-24. Anglin does not have prior D3 experience, but the Shreveport native has a lot of experience at the other levels of Louisiana college basketball. |
| Central | Joe Steinkamp | Conor Riordan (Interim) |
Assistant at Central | After going 52-28 in three seasons with the Dutch and winning the 2024 ARC title, Steinkamp is leaving to coach Pella Christian HS where his son plays. His assistant Riordan, who was a Jostens Trophy finalist at Simpson, takes over. |
| Centre | Greg Mason | Gavin Root (Interim) |
Assistant at Centre | Mason announced in September that he's stepping away from his position after 26 seasons, 459 wins and eight NCAA Tournaments. The Colonels reached the No. 2 ranking in the country in the 2007-08 season. |
| Chatham | David Richards | Brian Baudinet | Assistant at D-I UMBC | Richards leaves Chatham to return to his alma mater Westminster (Pa.) after going 120-56 in seven seasons witih the Cougars, including conference titles in 2019. 2023 and 2025. He's replaced by Brian Baudinet who returns to Pittsburgh where he previously worked as an assistant at D1 Duquense. |
| Colby | Damien Strahorn | Sean Rutigliano | Assistant at D-I Belmont | Strahorn went 179-150 in 14 seasons with the Mules, including the 2019-20 campaign in which Colby went 24-4 and reached the NCAA Tournament. After several seasons as a D1 assistant, Rutigliano returns to D3 where he played (Cortland) and coached as an assistant (Kean). |
| Colby-Sawyer | Dan Kaigler | Shannon Sciria | Assistant at New England College |
Kaigler went 33-70 in four seasons with the Chargers. He's replaced by former Colby-Sawyer player and assistant coach Sciria who played on the last Chargers' team to win 20 games in 2008-09. |
| Drew | Michael McSloy | Ryan Van Zelst | Assistant at D-II Millersville |
McSloy, who is headed to Ithaca, went 57-22 in three seasons with the Rangers. He's replaced by Van Zelst who was the head coach at Cabrini when the school closed and Penn State-Abington where he went 18-9. |
| Earlham | Joe Scheuers | Isaiah Cavaco | Head coach at Terra State Comm. College (Ohio) |
Scheuers resigned three games into last season in which the Quakers went 2-23. After using interim coaches for the rest of that campaign, Earlham turned to Cavaco who was Oberlin's head coach for 17 seasons. |
| Elmira | Casey McGraw | Denis Tobin | Assistant at Colby | McGraw spent four seasons at Elmira, during which the Soaring Eagles went 29-71. Tobin played at Clark and then had coaching stints at Suffolk, WPI and Colby. |
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Gallaudet |
Kevin Kovacs | Sekoe White | Assistant with Gallaudet (2023-24) |
Kovacs went 70-157 in nine seasons with the Bison. He's replaced by White who was second-team All-Conference at Gallaudet in 2008-09 and has a lot of experience with USA Deaf Basketball. |
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Gettysburg |
B.J. Dunne | Matt Hunter | Head coach at York (Pa.) |
After going 89-68 and reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament with the Bullets last season last season, Dunne is headed back to New England to lead MIT's program. He's replaced by Hunter who moves from nearby York College where he led the Spartans to 178 wins and four NCAA Tournaments in 12 seasons. |
| Greensboro | Jim Boone | Michael McDuffie | Interim head coach at Greensboro |
Boone resigned during the past season for health reasons, and the Pride appointed alum Michael McDuffie as interim head coach. McDuffie, who played four seasons at Greensboro, will lead the program going forward. |
| Guilford | Tom Palombo | Jesse DeLoof | Head coach at Pitt-Bradford |
Palombo, who won more than 650 games as a D-III MBB and WBB coach, followed his former assistant to D-I Longwood as an assistant. The Quakers have hired Region 7 Coach of the Year DeLoof who just led the up-tempo Panthers to a program-best 24-4 finish and a conference title. |
| Gwynedd Mercy | John Baron | Administrator for summer basketball league and Harlem Globetrotters |
Baron departed for Division II Holy Family after coaching for 22 seasons and compiling a 404-196 record for Gwynedd Mercy. Artis, who was a three-time all-conference selection and conference champion at GMercyU, will lead the Griffins going forward. | |
| Heidelberg | Andy Bucheit | Mike Summey | General Manager at D-I Utah |
Bucheit is leaving the 'Berg to become the new head coach at OAC rival Marietta. He went 153-148 in 12 seasons with the Student Princes. Summey, who played at North Carolina State, has had several coaching stops including Bethany where he was the head coach in 2008-09. |
| Ithaca | Waleed Farid | Michael McSloy | Head coach at Drew |
Farid was 66-40 as head coach at Ithaca after replacing Sean Burton, who left without ever coaching a game. Farid is followed by McSloy who led Drew to the NCAA Tournament, its first Top 25 ranking and an 18-0 conference record last season. |
| Immaculata | Jayson Hyman | Kyle Stramara | Assistant at Eastern |
Hyman went 85-126 in nine seasons with the Mighty Macs. Stramara was part of the Eastern staff when the Eagles reached the second round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament. |
| John Jay | Ryan Hyland | James Holmes | Assistant at Tufts |
Hyland went 109-154 in 10 seasons with the Bloodhounds and led them to the CUNYAC title and NCAA Tournament last season. He's joining the coaching staff at D1 Fordham. Holmes will fill that vacancy after spending the last two seasons at Tufts. His uncle Steve was the head coach at SUNY Geneseo and Salisbury. |
| Keuka | Jake Scott | Tom Wilk | Head coach at Tompkins Cortland (N.Y.) Comm. College |
Scott, who announced he's taking a teaching job at another college, went 33-71 in five seasons at Keuka. Wilk has had coaching stops at Cortland, SUNY Delhi, and Morrisville State, where has also played. |
| Keystone | Andrew Kettel | Justin Stern | Assistant coach at Oswego |
Kettel went 24-25 in two seasons with the Giants, including a 13-11 mark this past season. Stern was previously head coach at Cazenovia from 2016-23. |
| King's | JP Andrejko | Richard Gray | Assistant coach at King's |
Andrejko is retiring as the Monarch's all-time winningest coach after going 309-283 in 23 seasons at King's. Gray, a 22-year assistant, is the interim head coach. |
| Lesley | Devon Mayo | Alex Burt | Head coach at Green Bay Community College (Portsmouth, N.H.) |
Mayo went 16-129 in six seasons at his alma mater. He's replaced by Burt who was an assistant at former D3 school Southern Vermont and scored 1,000 points at Plymouth State. |
| Lewis & Clark | Tim McCrory | Shanan Rosenberg | Head coach at Linfield (2022-23) |
McCrory went 63-89 in eight years, including last season's Cinderella run to the NCAA Tournament when the Pioneers won their first NWC title since 2002. He's followed by Rosenberg who went 126-115 in 10 seasons as Linfield's head coach and previously coached at L&C. |
| Linfield | Levi Sieg | Elijah Gurash | Assistant coach at Buena Vista |
Sieg was 15-35 in his two seasons as head coach. Gurash was an assistant at Whitworth for six seasons before moving to BVU. |
| Macalester | Abe Woldeslassie | Rich Glesmann | Assistant coach at Dartmouth | Woldeslassie went 66-92 over seven seasons, but built the Scots into conference contenders and was named the Region 9 Coach of the Year in 2021-22. Glessman played at Emerson and coached for several years in Japan before going to Dartmouth. |
| Manchester | Nate Conley | Ryan Nowicki | Assistant at Hanover | Conley went 62-80 in six seasons with the Spartans. Prior to his hiring at Manchester, Nowicki spent 10 seasons as an assistant at HCAC rival Hanover. |
| Marietta | Jonn Vander Wal | Andy Bucheit | Head coach at Heidelberg |
Vander Wal compiled a 341-150 record at the helm of the Pioneers, nine times leading them to the NCAA Tournament, three times to the Elite Eight and once to the Final Four. He'll be replaced by Bucheit who spent five years as a Marietta assistant early in his career. |
| Mary Hardin-Baylor | Clif Carroll | Sam Patterson | Assistant coach at Oral Roberts |
Carroll, who was the 2022 Region 10 Coach of the Year, went 99-34 in five seasons with the Crusaders and led them to the NCAA Tournament in 2022 and 2023. Patterson coached at Baylor before joining the Oral Roberts staff in 2017. |
| McMurry | Zach Pickelman | Matt Bolton | Head coach at University of the Ozarks |
Pickelman went 77-168 in 10 seasons with the War Hawks. Bolton led Ozarks to a 14-11 record last season, which was the program's first winning record in a non-COVID year since 2005-06. |
| Medgar Evers | Brian Nigro | Kelvin Bigelow | Assistant coach at Medgar Evers |
Nigro went 43-134 in seven seasons with the Cougars. Bigelow was an assistant at MEC for seven seasons and an assistant at CUNYAC rival CCNY before that. |
| Messiah | Rick Van Pelt | Jacob Fleegle | Assistant coach at Emory |
Van Pelt went 276-265 in 22 seasons as the head coach at his alma mater, where he won the conference title twice and made the NCAA Tournament three times. Fleegle spent four seasons at Emory but has been on staff at Juniata, Carnegie Mellon and Waynesburg. |
| Middlebury | Jeff Brown | Matt Goldsmith | Head coach at TCNJ | Brown won 487 games in 30 seasons in Division III, mostly at Middlebury where led the Panthers to 457 wins, the 2011 national semifinals, and four NESCAC titles. Goldsmith won a national title as a player and an assistant coach at Amherst under Dave Hixon, and compiled a 153-98 record in 10 seasons as head coach at TCNJ. |
| Millsaps | Michael Prather | Connor Kuykendall | Head coach at Southwestern |
Prather went 23-87 in five seasons with the Majors. Kuykendall was 66-69 in five seasons at Schreiner and 39-96 in six seasons at Southwestern. |
| MIT | Larry Anderson | B.J. Dunne | Head coach at Gettysburg |
Head coach since 1995, Anderson retires with a 441-229 record. He led the Beavers to the 2011-12 national semifinals and Preseason No. 1 the following season. He's followed by Dunne who's a native of nearby Medford, Mass. and went 142-144 record over 11 seasons at Vassar and Gettysburg. |
| Moravian | Darryl Keckler | Michael Mayes (Interim) |
Assistant at Moravian |
Keckler, who went 33-43 in three seasons with the Greyhounds, stepped down to take an administrative job at Middle Tennessee State. Mayes, who came to Moravian with Keckler from Drew, will be the interim head coach this season. |
| NYU | Dave Klatsky | Waleed Farid | Head coach at Ithaca | Klatsky was the 2025 D3hoops.com Coach of the Year and is being hired by Florida, the D-I men's basketball national champion. Farid is 115-92 in his career at Hartwick and Ithaca and was the 2025 D3hoops.com Region 3 Coach of the Year. |
| Ohio Northern | Neal Young | Jon Tropf | Assistant at Ohio Northern | Young left after the Polar Bears finished the season 14-12. ONU was 37-39 in his three seasons as head coach. |
| Penn State- Abington |
Justin Dunbar- Stevens |
Sean Westerlund | Head coach at Bryn Athyn |
Westerlund went 55-53 in five seasons at Bryn Athyn, which is dropping intercollegiate athletics. The Lions won the UEC last season while Penn State-Abington finished last in the conference. |
| Piedmont | Greg Neeley | JC Cavin | Assistant at D-II North Georgia |
Neeley went 145-158 in 12 seasons at Piedmont. Cavin returns to Piedmont where he was an assistant for four seasons before spending last season at North Georgia. |
| Pitt-Bradford | Jesse DeLoof | Daniel Smay | Head coach at USCAA Penn State-DuBois |
DeLoof, who won Region 7 Coach of the Year honors last season, is leaving his alma mater to lead ODAC champion Guilford. Last season DeLoof led the Panthers to a program-best 24-4 finish and a conference title. Smay was the head coach at one of the non-Division III Penn State branch campuses which competes in the USCAA. |
| Schreiner | Marwan Elrakabawy | Kyle McLeroy | Assistant at Texas-Dallas |
Elrakabawy leaves Schreiner as the program's all-time winningest coach with a record of 77-69 in six seasons after leading the Mountaineers to their first 20-win season in in 2024-25. He was named the new head coach at conference rival Trinity (Texas). McLeroy was on the Texas-Dallas staff in the Comets' final season in Division III when they won the ASC title. |
| Sewanee | Brian Emerson | Will Merrell | Assistant at Sewanee |
Emerson went 68-68 in six seasons with Sewanee, including the SAA-title winning team in 2023. His assistant Merrell takes over after three seasons with the Tigers. He played basketball and track and field as a student at Sewanee, and then was the strength and conditioning coach for the Tigers' men's lacrosse team. |
| Southwestern | Connor Kuykendall | Matt Streich | Assistant at Colorado College |
Streich had assistant coaching stops at Emmanuel, Nichols, and Pomona-Pitzer before spending four seasons at SCAC rival Colorado College. |
| Stevenson | Gary Stewart | Jack Bors | Assistant at Catholic | Stewart went 155-192 in 15 seasons with the Mustangs. He's returning to the West Coast to lead UC Merced as it transitions to D2. Bors, who played collegiately at Bowdoin, was an assistant at Catholic and Ursinus. |
| St. Joseph's (Bklyn.) | Joseph Cocozello | Sebastien Etheart (interim) |
Assistant at SJC (Bklyn.) | Cocozello, who is the only coach the Golden Bears have had since entering Division III in 2007, went 264-335 in 22 seasons at his alma mater. |
| St. Mary's (Minn.) | Joe Fano | Nick Bobb | Assistant at St. Mary's (Minn.) |
Fano went 66-95 in seven seasons at his alma mater. Bobb was an assistant at St. Mary's for two seasons and previusly was an assistant at his alma mater, Division III Cornell. |
| St. Scholastica | Christian Butler | Jared Drake | Assistant at D-II Arkansas-Fort Smith |
Butler was interim head coach after the departure of longtime HC David Staniger, and his team went 9-16, 5-11 MIAC, a pickup of six overall wins from 2023-24. This is Drake's first role of any kind at the D-III level. |
| Swarthmore | Landry Kosmalski | Shane Loeffler | Assistant at Swarthmore | Kosmalski turned Swarthmore into a national power, leading the Garnet to two national semifinals, seven consecutive NCAA Tournaments, and a 241-102 record over 13 seasons. Shane Loeffler, who is the brother of former Johns Hopkins head coach Josh, will assume leadership of his alma mater's program. |
| TCNJ | Matt Goldsmith | Evan Elberg | Assistant at D-I St. Peter's | Goldsmith coached 10 seasons at TCNJ and led the Lions to the NCAA Tournament three times. He's followed by Elberg who was his assistant for four seasons. The Drew alum also had coaching stops at Gettysburg and Wash College. |
| Trine | Brooks Miller | Jon Wander Wal | Head coach at Marietta | Miller was 247-121 at Trine and won the 2024 D-III national title as well as 2024 D3hoops.com Coach of the Year. Vander Wal compiled a 341-150 record at the helm of the Pioneers, nine times leading them to the NCAA Tournament, three times to the Elite Eight and once to the Final Four. |
| Trinity (Texas) | Jimmy Smith | Marwan Elrakabawy | Head coach at Schreiner |
Smith moves to D-I Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he'll be an assistant head coach for the Lumberjacks. He went 98-24 in five seasons at Trinity, which was his fourth Division III head coaching stop. He's replaced by Elrawabawy led SCAC rival Schreiner for the past six seasons. |
| University of the Ozarks |
Matt Bolton | Nate Williams | Assistant at D-I Wofford | Bolton, who took the head coaching job at McMurry, went 31-44 in three seasons with the Eagles. Willliams has spent time at the D1, D2 and D3 level where he was interim head coach for Pitt-Bradford in 2019-20. |
| UW-Stout | Jim Lake | Tom Webb (Interim) |
Assistant at UW-Stout | Lake left to take an assistant coaching job at Central Michigan where he'll coach with former Trine head coach Brooks Miller. |
| Valley Forge | Dominique Boone | Phil Over | Assistant at Valley Forge | Boone went 16-37 in two seasons at UVF. The Patriots will look for their fourth new head coach in six years. Over has served as UVF's interim coach and is also a PGA Class A Professional. |
| Wentworth | Arlen Galloway | Jason Chornyei | Assistant at Stevens | Galloway went 132-134 in his first 10 seasons with the Leopards before disappearing from the sidelines in February 2025. Wentworth finished 9-17 last season. The Leopards will be led by Chornyei who started his playing career at Endicott before transferring to Drew. |
| Westminster (Pa.) | Kevin Siroki | David Richards | Head coach at Chatham | Siroki went 153-179 in 13 seasons with his alma mater. He is replaced by Westminster alum David Richards who won three PAC titles at conference rival Chatham. |
| Wheaton (Mass.) | Brian Walmsley | Alex DuBrow | Assistant at Wheaton | Walmsley went 337-358 over 28 seasons with the Lyons. He's replaced by Wheaton alum DuBrow who graduated in 2020 and then played professionally in Israel for three seasons. |
| Wilson | Dexter Harris | Mike Bowens | Assistant at D-II Chestnut Hill (Pa.) |
Harris, who went 12-15 in his lone season at Wilson, took an assistant position under former Delaware Valley head coach Casey Stitzel at D-II Millersville (Pa.). Wilson stayed within the Keystone State and hired Bowens who coached at Chestnut Hill and Penn State-Brandywine before it joined D3. |
| York (Pa.) | Matt Hunter | Jared Wagner | Assistant at York (Pa.) | Hunter's departure for the head coaching job at Gettysburg set the stage for Wagner to lead his alma mater's program. Wagner has been to eight NCAA Tournaments with the Spartans -- six as a player and two as an assistant coach. |