PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Saint Joseph\u2019s basketball has promoted Steve Donahue to head coach after Billy Lange decided to take a front office job with the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n
Donahue joined the program in May as an associate coach after nine seasons as coach at Penn. He was Ivy League Coach of the Year in 2017-2018, when he led the Quakers to the NCAA Tournament. He had previously been the coach at Boston College and Cornell. He has a career record of 331-344 and led Cornell to three NCAA Tournament berths.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve long admired St. Joe\u2019s for its legacy, tradition and dedicated fan base,\u201d Donahue said in a statement. \u201cBut nothing prepared me for what I saw when I joined the team. We are athletic, deep and talented; we have the people, culture and first-class facilities. We have everything we need to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
In six seasons under Lange, St. Joe\u2019s earned consecutive Big 5 Classic titles and a pair of national postseason berths. The 2024-25 Big 5 Coach of the Year led the Hawks to back-to-back 20-win seasons the past two years \u2014 a first for the program since 2003-04 and 2004-05.<\/p>\n
\u201cBilly and I shared a vision for how to run a program in the new world of college sports,\u201d Saint Joseph\u2019s athletic director Jill Bodensteiner said. \u201cHe built that infrastructure from the ground up \u2014 people, culture, facilities, student-athlete development and talent. We have all of the pieces we need to be successful as Steve Donahue leads us into our next chapter of Hawks basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n
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