Jim Engles | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Columbia |
Current Conference: | Ivy League |
Birth Date: | 19 August 1968 |
Birth Place: | Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1986–1990 |
Player Team1: | Dickinson |
Coach Years1: | 1991–1997 |
Coach Team1: | Wagner (assistant) |
Coach Years2: | 1997–2003 |
Coach Team2: | Rider (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 2003–2008 |
Coach Team3: | Columbia (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 2008–2016 |
Coach Team4: | NJIT |
Coach Years5: | 2016–present |
Coach Team5: | Columbia |
Tournament Record: | 6–2 (CIT) |
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.