Jim Engles
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Columbia |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 69–136 (.337) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | August 19, 1968 Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
| 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 | 180–275 (.396) |
| Tournaments | 6–2 (CIT) |
| 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 an 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 | 10–21 | 4–8 | T–5th | |||||
| 2010–11 | NJIT | 15–15 | 9–3 | 2nd | |||||
| 2011–12 | NJIT | 15–17 | 5–5 | T–3rd | |||||
| 2012–13 | NJIT | 16–13 | 6–2 | 1st | |||||
| NJIT Highlanders (NCAA Division I independent) (2013–2015) | |||||||||
| 2013–14 | NJIT | 13–16 | |||||||
| 2014–15 | NJIT | 21–12 | CIT Semifinals | ||||||
| NJIT Highlanders (Atlantic Sun Conference) (2015–2016) | |||||||||
| 2015–16 | NJIT | 20–15 | 8–6 | T–2nd | CIT Semifinals | ||||
| NJIT: | 111–139 (.444) | 32–24 (.571) | |||||||
| Columbia Lions (Ivy League) (2016–present) | |||||||||
| 2016–17 | Columbia | 11–16 | 5–9 | 5th | |||||
| 2017–18 | Columbia | 8–19 | 5–9 | T–5th | |||||
| 2018–19 | Columbia | 10–18 | 5–9 | 7th | |||||
| 2019–20 | Columbia | 6–24 | 1–13 | 8th | |||||
| 2020–21 | Columbia | Season Canceled | |||||||
| 2021–22 | Columbia | 4–22 | 1–13 | 8th | |||||
| 2022–23 | Columbia | 7–22 | 2–12 | 8th | |||||
| 2023–24 | Columbia | 13–14 | 4–10 | 6th | |||||
| 2024–25 | Columbia | 10–1 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Columbia: | 69–136 (.337) | 23–75 (.235) | |||||||
| Total: | 180–275 (.396) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ^ "NCAA Statistics".
- ^ "Jim Engles leaving NJIT, takes over at Columbia".
- ^ Berman, Zach (21 December 2009). "NJIT is a team with nowhere to go but up". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 October 2010.