| Casey Korn, who won a national title as an assistant at UW-Oshkosh, is the new head coach at Lawrence. Photo by Matt McClure, d3photography.com |
This is where we now track all the changes in Division III head men's basketball coaching positions that occur from the end of 2020-21 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 we have the same tracker for the women's changes.
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| School | Last Coach |
Replaced |
Last position | Notes |
| Adrian | Kyle Lindsay | Assistant at Adrian | Kaiser took over from Lindsay as coach midway through last season. | |
| Alfred | Russell Phillips | Assistant at RPI | Kaempffe played in the NEAC (Wells) and coached in the Liberty League and SUNYAC (Oswego State). | |
| Augustana | Steve Schafer | Assistant at Augustana | Jessee's tenure predates long-time head Grey Giovanine. He started as an assistant to Steve Yount in 1993. | |
| Bard | Adam Turner | Assistant at Redlands | Lenahan moves to the East Coast after being an assistant at two West Coast programs, Redlands and Whitman. | |
| Berry | Mitch Cole |
Trevor Lydic |
Assistant at Berry | Cole is headed back to Division I where he'll be an assistant coach at Samford. |
| Bethany | Nick Hager | Associate AD at Bethany |
Worrell went 210-301 in 22 seasons at Illinois College. | |
| Bethel | Doug Novak | Head coach at Lawrence | Filzen, who's mother coached at St. Olaf and Carletone, went 64-21 in three seasons at Lancaster Bible and 22-28 in two seasons at Lawrence. | |
| Bowdoin | Tim Gilbride | Assistant with Memphis Hustle (G-League) | Lloyd was the 2005 SCIAC Player of the Year. | |
| Colby-Sawyer | Bill Foti | Assistant at Rochester | Foti, who went 486-259 in 28 seasons with the Chargers, is the new AD at Guilford College. | |
| Curry | Joseph Busacca | Assistant at Wentworth | Alibrandi was previously an assistant at Curry, as well as Emerson and his alma mater Regis. | |
| Dean | Rico Cabral | Assistant at Dean | Joe takes over for his father Rico who won 197 games in 17 seasons at the NCAA Division III level between Dean and Mount Ida. | |
| Defiance | Scott Cutter | Assistant at NAIA Indiana University East |
Gibson was the head coach at three NAIA schools -- Brescia, Lourdes and Urbana. | |
| Delaware Valley | Mark Seidenburg | Assistant at D2 East Stroudsburg (Pa.) | Kaba made two trips to the D2 tournament as a coach and three as a player at East Stroudsburg. | |
| Eastern Nazarene | Scott Polsgrove | Assistant at Hartwick | Sharp was an assistant to Polsgrove for two seasons from 2017 to 2019. | |
| Elmira | Randie Torgalski | Assistant at Nebraska Wesleyan | McGraw was an assistant on NWU's 2018 national championship team. | |
| Emmanuel | Danny Lawson |
Tell White (Interim) |
Assistant at Emmanuel | Lawson, who went 37-15 in two seasons, left to join the staff at D1 UMBC. |
| Framingham State | Bill Raynor | Head coach at MassBay Community College | Morris was the head coach at Lesley for nine years and the head coach at former D3 member Daniel Webster for three. | |
| Hartwick | Waleed Farid | Assistant at Union | Ciresi, who played and coached at Union, will make his head coaching debut against the Dutchmen in November. | |
| Howard Payne |
Troy Drummond | Head coach at Brownwood (Texas) HS |
After graduating from HPU in 2000, Dalleh went 151-86 as a high school head coach. | |
| Ithaca | Sean Burton | Head coach at Hartwick | Farid went 49-51 in four full seasons at Hartwick. | |
| Keuka | Thad Phillips | Head coach at SUNY-Cobleskill | Scott went 65-144 in nine seasons at SUNY-Cobleskill. | |
| Lawrence | Zach Filzen | Assitant at UW-Oshkosh | Korn was the top assistant with the Titans when they won the national title in 2019. | |
| LeTourneau | Dan Miller | James Wallace | Assistant at LeTourneau | Wallace was an assistant to Dan Miller during his seven-year tenure with LETU. |
| Millikin | Mark Scherer | Kramer Soderberg | Assistant at Millikin | Soderberg played at Division II Lindenwood for his father Brad, who's now the top assistant at D1 Virginia. |
| Moravian | Shawn Postiglione | Mark Frew (Interim) |
Assistant at Moravian | Frew played at Moravian for four seasons and was a captain in his senior year. |
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Mount |
Will Cabrera | Marcus Thomas | Head coach at USCAA Penn State-Fayette | Thomas played three seasons at AMCC rival Pitt-Greensburg. |
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MUW |
Brian Merkel | Dean Burrows | Head coach at Wesley | Burrows finds a home at one of Division III's newest members after athletics were eliminated at former Division III member Wesley in the spring. |
| Nichols | Brandon Linton | Brock Erickson | Assistant at Division I Univ. of Illinois at Chicago |
Erickson played at Rhode Island and then Assumption. He started his coaching career as an assistant CCNY. |
| NVU-Johnson | Miles Smith | Alfred Johnson | Assistant at Division II Elizabeth City State |
Johnson went 42-61 as the head coach at St. Mary's (Md.) from 1999-2003. |
| Penn State-Berks | Richard Miller | TBD | ||
| Pitt-Greensburg | Brody Jackson | Chris Klimchock | Assistant at Penn St-Behrend | Klimchock was an all-conference honoree and conference title winner at St. Vincent. |
| Pratt | Max Sass | Chris Thompson | Assistant at Stevens | Thompson also had stops as an assistant at Elmira and St. John Fisher. |
| Southern Maine | Karl Henrikson | Rob Sanicola | Head coach at St. Joseph's (Maine) | Sanicola went 275-190 in 18 seasons with the Monks. |
| St. Elizabeth | Tom Wagenblast | James Adams | Assistant at D1 Richmond |
Adams spent time on the coaching staffs at D1 Princeton, D2 Georgian Court and FDU-Flohram, all in New Jersey. |
| St. Joseph's (Maine) | Rob Sanicola | Tyler Ackley | Assistant at Colby | Castleton alum Ackley was also an assistant at Nebraska Wesleyan for three seasons. |
| SUNY-Cobleskill | Jake Scott | Justin Maxwell | Assistant at SUNY-Cobleskill | Maxwell was the head coach at SUNY Ulster community college for five years. |
| Tufts | Bob Sheldon | Brandon Linton | Head coach at Nichols | Linton, who went 21-9 in his lone full season at Nichols, spent two years at NESCAC rival Bowdoin as an assistant. |
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UC Santa |
Ron Dubois | Matt Malone | Assistant at Tufts | Malone comes to the west coast after spending 15 years at his alma mater Tufts. |
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Univ. of |
Jarred Samples | Matt Grahn | Assistant at Dallas | Grahn, who was previously an assistant at Concordia (Texas) and TLU, replaces Samples who is now the UD's Athletic Director. |
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Valley Forge |
DJ Damazo | TJ Hardeman | Assistant at Valley Forge | Damazo is headed west to take an assistant position at Grinnell. |
| Wilson | Brian Zoeller | Head coach at Delaware Valley | Seidenburg went 44-67 in five seasons at DelVal. |