BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Canisius College employed former Boston School coach Jim Christian to take over its males's basketball program on Monday.
Christian, 59, joins the Metro Atlantic Athletic Convention program after spending the previous two seasons as an assistant at Kent State. In 2022-23, the Golden Flashes gained 28 video games and the Mid-American Convention match title to earn an automated berth within the NCAA Match.
At Canisius, he replaces Reggie Witherspoon, whose contract was not renewed after eight seasons. The Buffalo, N.Y.-based Golden Griffins spent a lot of final season with out three key contributors and completed 14-18, their fifth loss in six years.
Christian has 19 seasons of faculty teaching, together with stops at Kent State, TCU and Ohio, with an general document of 317-273. He went 75-119 at Boston School from 2014-20, which included a 19-win season and an NIT berth in 2017-18.
Throughout his six seasons teaching at Kent State from 2002-08, he was a two-time MAC Coach of the 12 months in main the Golden Flashes to NCAA Match appearances in 2006 and '08. And his .700 successful share (137-59) nonetheless ranks among the many greatest within the convention.
“I’m assured that I will take the issues I’ve realized in my 19 years as a head coach and put them into apply at Canisius on Day 1,” Christian stated in an announcement. “The shut, household ambiance I skilled there final week solely confirmed to me that Canisius is the best place for me, each personally and professionally. I'm able to get to Buffalo and I'm able to get to work.”
Christian, from Bethpage, N.Y., was a member of the Rhode Island workforce that superior to the Candy 16 of the 1988 NCAA Match below coach Tom Penders.
Christian's hiring fills one place Canisius can be trying to find a head ladies's basketball coach after Sahar Nusseibeh left for Japanese Michigan final month.
