Terry Glasgow began coaching Monmouth men's basketball in 1972 and after coaching nearly 40% of the program's 1,999 games all-time, he is retiring.

"There's never a good time to leave, but after a great deal of thought, I decided that this was the right time," said Glasgow, who will remain Monmouth's athletic director through the end of the academic year.

"It's really the end of an era, not only in terms of Terry Glasgow coaching the basketball team, but also an era in which people like Terry wear so many hats within an athletic department," said Monmouth president Mauri Ditzler. "There's no way we will find a single person to do all that Terry did."

Each of Glasgow's first 11 teams won at least 60% of their games, and the Scots then went on a championship run, capturing three MWC titles between 1985 and 1990. The latter team won a school-record 20 consecutive games before falling in the NCAA tournament to eventual runner-up DePauw. He finished with a career record of 469-313.

“Terry has great Midwestern character and is certainly a product of the region,” Ditzler said. “He brought the best Midwestern traits to his work for the college. Also, there is a public attitude about athletics in higher education that schools will bend the rules. However, I was always confident that Terry would do things with integrity and honesty.”

When his 343 varsity baseball victories are added in, no Fighting Scots coach comes close to his 812 career wins. Glasgow resigned as baseball coach in 1993 after 21 seasons in charge.

A coaching successor has not yet been named, but Roger Haynes, a 1982 Monmouth graduate who has coached and taught at Monmouth the past quarter-century, has been named interim associate director of athletics. He will be charged with leading the search to find a new coach. Glasgow, who is also chair of the physical education department, will phase out of those duties through the course of the year.