We’ve got our first teaching transfer of the 2025-26 school basketball teaching carousel, and it is popping out of Philadelphia.
After six seasons and an 81-104 document, Saint Joseph’s coach Billy Lange has determined to step down from his publish and pursue a possibility to affix Mike Brown’s employees with the New York Knicks, sources advised CBS Sports activities. Brown was employed in July after Tom Thibodeau was fired following the perfect Knicks season in many years, which included a memorable run within the NBA Playoffs that ended with a loss to the Indiana Pacers in Sport 7 of the Japanese Convention finals.
The 53-year-old Lange is not any stranger to the NBA grind. He spent eight years as a 76ers assistant, from 2011-19, earlier than getting the St. Joe’s job in 2019. From 2004-11, Lange was the coach at Navy, the place his groups mixed to go 93-114 over seven seasons.
With Lange leaving Philly for New York, Saint Joseph’s has tapped Steve Donahue as its head coach for the upcoming season. Donahue, 63, was fired from Penn in March after a nine-year run. He has 23 years of head teaching expertise, together with stints at Boston School and Cornell.
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The Hawks by no means caught on beneath Lange, ending sub-.500 in his first 4 seasons and failing to safe a top-four spot within the Atlantic 10 standings in any of his six campaigns. Final season, Saint Joe’s went 22-13 and misplaced within the first spherical of the NIT, which was its greatest run in Lange’s tenure.
This system is aching for a return to relevance. The Hawks have made simply two NCAA tourney appearances since 2008, the newest coming in 2016 beneath the perfect coach at school historical past, Phil Martelli.
