Jim Engles

Jim Engles
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Columbia
Conference Ivy League
Record 19–35 (.352)
Biographical details
Born (1968-08-19) August 19, 1968
Staten Island, New York
Playing career
1986–1990 Dickinson
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1997 Wagner (assistant)
1997–2003 Rider (assistant)
2003–2008 Columbia (assistant)
2008–2016 NJIT
2016–present Columbia
Head coaching record
Overall 128–170 (.430)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Great West regular season (2013)
Awards
Great West Coach of the Year (2013)

Jim Engles (born August 18, 1968[1]) is an American college basketball coach and current coach of the Columbia Lions men's basketball team.[2] He is the former head men's basketball coach at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).[3] He replaced Jim Casciano. In Engles' first season (2008), the NJIT Highlanders snapped their Division I-record 51-game losing streak with a win over Bryant. Under Engles, NJIT reached the CIT semifinals in both 2015 and 2016. Engles had been the first assistant coach at Columbia before taking over as head coach at NJIT.

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
NJIT Highlanders (NCAA Division I independent) (2008–2009)
2008–09 NJIT 1–30
NJIT Highlanders (Great West Conference) (2009–2013)
2009–10 NJIT 10–214–8T–5th
2010–11 NJIT 15–159–32nd
2011–12 NJIT 15–175–5T–3rd
2012–13 NJIT 16–136–21st
NJIT Highlanders (NCAA Division I independent) (2013–2015)
2013–14 NJIT 13–16
2014–15 NJIT 21–12CIT Semifinals
NJIT Highlanders (Atlantic Sun Conference) (2015–2016)
2015–16 NJIT 20–158–6T–2ndCIT Semifinals
NJIT: 111–139 (.444)32–24 (.571)
Columbia Lions (Ivy League) (2016–present)
2016–17 Columbia 11–165–95th
2017–18 Columbia 8–195–9T–5th
Columbia: 19–35 (.352)10–18 (.357)
Total:130–174 (.428)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. ↑ "NCAA Statistics".
  2. ↑ "Jim Engles leaving NJIT, takes over at Columbia".
  3. ↑ Berman, Zach (21 December 2009). "NJIT is a team with nowhere to go but up". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
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