Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Columbia |
Conference | Ivy League |
Record | 11–16 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Staten Island, New York |
August 19, 1968
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 | 122–155 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Great West regular season (2013) |
Jim Engles (born August 18, 1968) is an American college basketball coach and current coach of the Columbia Lions men's basketball team. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). 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.
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