Apr 30, 2026
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| Tim Grosz coached Northwestern (Minn.) for 26 seasons, including a trip to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Photo by Ryan Coleman, d3photography.com |
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 (Conference) | Outgoing coach | Incoming coach | Last position |
| Adrian (MIAA) | Tim Kaiser | Jamison Webster | High school head boys' basketball coach |
| Kaiser took over for the final six games of the pandemic season of 2020-21 and compiled a 35-102 mark in five-plus seasons at the helm of the Bulldogs. Webster graduated from Adrian in 2016. | |||
| Albright (MACC) | Rick Ferry | Matt Chalupa | MBB assistant coach at Albright |
| Ferry will remain AD, which he has been since 2008. He was 344-288 as head caoch. | |||
| Alvernia (MACC) | Mike Miller Jr. | Jason O'Connell | MBB head coach at Cairn |
| Miller Jr. took over for Miller Sr. upon the elder's retirement in 2023. Miller the younger went 48-34 in three seasons. | |||
| Cairn (UEC) | Jason O'Connell | ||
| O'Connell left Cairn to take over the top spot at Alvernia. He was successful over 12 seasons at Cairn, going 149-148. | |||
| Christopher Newport (C2C) | John Krikorian | ||
| One of the most successful active coaches in Division III, Krikorian has accepted an assistant coaching position at Division I Elon. Krikorian led the Captains to 362 wins, four national semifinals and the 2023 national championship. His combined record at CNU and Merchant Marine was 427-126 (.772). | |||
| Colby (NESCAC) | Sean Rutigliano | David McLaughlin | |
| Rutigliano headed to Kansas State as GM. McLaughlin, a Colby alumnus, spent nine seasons as head coach at Dartmouth, where the Big Green went 87-161. Prior to that, he had nine successful seasons as head coach at Division II Stonehill. | |||
| Delaware Valley (MACF) | Muhamadou Kaba | ||
| Kaba, who was the 2025 Region 4 Coach of the Year, departs Delaware Valley with a career record of 60-68 in five seasons. He will join former D3hoops All-American Mike McGarvey's staff at Division I Lafayette. | |||
| Earlham (HCAC) | Isaiah Cavaco | ||
| Earlham will have its fourth new head coach in three seasons since Cavaco has departed after a 2-23 season with the Quakers. | |||
| Franklin & Marshall (CC) | Nick Nichay | ||
| Nichay goes out with three consecutive 20-win seasons, lifting his career mark to 96-63 in six years of replacing Glenn Robinson. He will join the new Dartmouth coaching staff. | |||
| Geneva (PAC) | Jeff Santarsiero | DJ Damazo | MBB assistant coach at Grinnell |
| Santarsiero announced his retirement at the beginning of the season and goes out with a 414-420 mark in 30 years as Geneva's men's coach. (He also went 72-30 as head women's coach at Nyack.) Damazo is a Geneva alum who played for Santarsiero. | |||
| Huntingdon (CCS) | Zac Richards | ||
| The school has posted the job opening after Richards' departure to take a D-II job was widely speculated about. | |||
| King's (MACF) | Rich Gray | Phil Pierfy | MBB assistant coach at Arcadia |
| Gray was interim this past season, in which his alma mater was 7-18 overall. Pierfy, a 2019 graduate of Arcadia, had spent seven years there as an assistant. | |||
| Lebanon Valley (MACF) | Brad McAlester | ||
| The man who coached Mike Rhoades in his final year at Leb Val and coached D-III all-time great Andy Panko retired after 32 seasons, 437-389 mark. | |||
| Lewis & Clark (NWC) | Shanan Rosenberg* | Cory Coombe | MBB assistant coach at D2 Cal State San Marcos |
| Rosenberg was removed from the bench sometime in December, and the Pioneers/River Otters played most of the season under assistant Shawn Carson. Coombe played at L&C and coached under Eric Bridgeland at Whitman and Redlands. | |||
| Lyon (SLIAC) | Rodney Mayes | Thomas Orr | MBB assistant coach at Trinity (Texas) |
| Mayes was hired as head coach at D-II Albany State, in Georgia. Lyon had gone 18-9 each of the past two years under Mayes. He's replaced by Mary Hardin-Baylor alum Thomas Orr who has had coaching stops at Trinity, Texas Lutheran, University of the Ozarks, and Howard Payne. Orr was the leading scorer on the Crusaders' 2013 national runner-up squad and an All-South Region selection. | |||
| Maine-Farmington (NAC) | Quinn Newton | ||
| Newton lead the Beavers to a 36-19 record, including the 2026 NAC title and a first-round upset win at Montclair State, in two seasons. He will be the next head coach at Muhlenberg. | |||
| Marian (NACC) | Drake Diener | Tyler Jones | MBB assistant coach at Marian |
| Marian was Deiener's first coaching job of any type after a 12-year career playing basketball overseas. He went 87-107 in eight seasons. Diener will take over his dad's old post as head boys' basketball coach at Fond du Lac HS. Jones, who coached at D-I DePaul and in the Continential Basketball Association, takes over the Sabres' program. He was previously head coach at Concordia-Chicago where he went 66-111 in seven seasons. | |||
| Mary Baldwin (USAC) | Daniel Eacho | Nate Smith | MBB assistant coach at Oberlin |
| The Squirrels posted an 11-14 record this past season in just their fifth season of men's basketball, and the second under Daniel Eacho, who was 25-27 in two seasons before his departure in early March. Smith spent four seasons at Oberlin. | |||
| Maryville (SAA) | Raul Placeres | Mark Sansone | MBB assistant coach at Mary Washington |
| After going 121-47 in seven seasons at Maryville, Placeres took an assistant job under former D-III coach Tobin Anderson at D-I Tennessee Tech. He's replaced by Sansone who spent 12 seasons as an assistant at Mary Washington and helped the Eagles win the 2026 national title. | |||
| Millikin (CCIW) | Kramer Soderberg | Tom Noonan | Athletic director at area high school |
| Initially reported on March 4, then denied, it became official on March 17. Soderberg had taken over a program which had won six games a year in the previous decade-plus and took them to a 59-67 mark (.468), 19-70 (.414) in the CCIW. Soderberg is followed by Millikin alum Tom Noonan who was an assistant coach for the Big Blue from 2021 through 2025. | |||
| Mount Aloysius (AMCC) | Marcus Thomas | Pat Martinelli | MBB assistant coach at Carnegie Mellon |
| Thomas spent five years with Mount Aloysius and finished with a record of 30-95 (.240). Martinelli had spent three seasons at CMU, previously was at Chatham. | |||
| Mount St. Mary (SKY) | Ryan Kadlubowski | Mike Duffy | MBB assistant coach at SUNY New Paltz |
| Kadlubowski, who is in his 40s, announced his retirement from college athletics after 17 seasons at MSMC. His teams were 186-230 over that time, including 2-23 this season. Duffy moves to Newburgh from nearby New Paltz where he spent five years on the Hawks' staff. | |||
| Mount St. Vincent (SKY) | James Mooney | Brett Gunning | President of a youth hoops-related non-profit |
| Mooney was head coach for nine seasons. The Dolphins finished 3-22 this season and only had one winning season in Mooney's tenure, his first season, in 2017-18. Gunning was an assistant coach under Jay Wright at Villanova from 2001-08 and spent 12 years in the NBA as an assistant coach, as recently as 2020. | |||
| Mount Union (OAC) | Mike Fuline | Josh Twiddy | MBB assistant coach at Mount Union |
| Fuline stepped down to join the staff at the University of Cincinnati. He was 285-117 in 15 seasons at UMU. Twiddy was promoted from within and has been an assistant for the Purple Raiders for more than a decade. | |||
| Muhlenberg (CC) | Kevin Hopkins | Quinn Newton | Head coach at Maine-Farmington. |
| After leading Maine-Farmington to the NAC title and the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Newton is headed south to take over Mules program that went 100-105 in nine seasons under Kevin Hopkins. Newtown also spent time as an assistant at Bates, Southern Maine, Hampden-Sydney and Huntingdon. | |||
| MUW (SLIAC) | Dean Burrows | Bernard Hopkins | Head coach at Hagerstown (Md.) Comm. College |
| Burrows coached at MUW for five years and will leave the coaching role to focus on his assistant AD role. The fledgling program set a school record for wins and went 17-11 this past season. While Hopkins spent the last 11 seasons at Hagerstown Community College in Maryland, he has sent three players to MUW including his son Brye who played and then coached under Burrows at the University. | |||
| Northwestern (Minn.) | Tim Grosz | ||
| Grosz coached the Eagles for 26 seasons and is leaving to take an athletics admin job in Colorado, closer to family. | |||
| Regent (C2C) | Michael Allen | Barry Hollenbeck | MBB assistant coach at Regent |
| Allen gives up the coaching job but remains athletic director; Hollenbeck has been at Regent, a provsional D-III member, for two seasons. | |||
| Rockford (NACC) | Jeremy Reigle | Aaron Jacobs | MBB assistant coach at North Park |
| In seven seasons, Reigle's Regents went 93-73, with an 11-15 mark this past season. Reigle was hired as head coach at Division II Culver-Stockton. Jacobs returns to the NACC where he was previously an assistant coach at Wisconsin Lutheran after spending two seasons each on the coaching staffsf at Wabash and North Park. | |||
| Rowan (NJAC) | Eric Brennan | Rob DePersia | MBB assistant coach at D-I New Haven |
| Brennan left to follow his former Rowan boss, Joe Crispin, who recently became head coach at Air Force. Enter Rob DePersia who played four seasons and scored 1000 points for the Profs from 2015-2019. DePersia's coaching career took him to Villanova, Fordham, back to 'Nova, and then New Haven. | |||
| St. Olaf (MIAC) | Dan Kosmoski | ||
| Kosmoski retires after 32 seasons at St. Olaf, with a record of 395-405. | |||
| St. Scholastica (MIAC) | Jared Drake | Ben Davis | MBB assistant coach at UW-Whitewater |
| Drake spent just one season in Duluth, Minnesota, after being hired for his first job of any kind in Division III. CSS was 7-18 this season. In addition to UW-Whitewater, Davis has been head coach at Knox and was the last head coach at Green Mountain. | |||
| Thiel (PAC) | Tim Loomis | ||
| Loomis retires as the Tomcats' winningest coach with a record of 200-282 in 20 seasons. He also coached six years at D-II California (Pa.) and six at Florida Atlantic when that program transitioned to D1. | |||
| UW-Oshkosh (WIAC) | Matt Lewis | ||
| 141-62 in his eight seasons plus a national title, but Lewis stepped down because his family is relocating. UWO was 17-9, 8-6 in the WIAC this past season. | |||
| Vermont State-Johnson (NAC) | Alfred Johnson | ||
| Johnson died unexpectedly. | |||
| Westminster, Mo. (SLIAC) | Todd Creal | Obi Agomo | MBB assistant coach at DePauw |
| The program won 19 games in the past four seasons. Agomo has been an assistant under Rusty Loyd at DePauw for the past four seasons. | |||