Canisius University hired former Boston College coach Jim Christian to take over its men’s basketball program. The 59-year-old Christian joins the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference program after spending the past two seasons as an assistant at Kent State.
FILE - Boston College head coach Jim Christian argues a call during the first half of an NCAA men’s college basketball game against Notre Dame in Boston, in this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, file photo. Canisius University hired former Boston College coach Jim Christian to take over its men’s basketball program on Monday, April 8, 2024. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Canisius University hired former Boston College coach Jim Christian to take over its men’s basketball program on Monday.
The 59-year-old Christian joins the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference program after spending the past two seasons as an assistant at Kent State. In 2022-23, the Golden Flashes won 28 games and the Mid-American Conference tournament title to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament., who’s contract was not renewed after eight seasons.
Christian has 19 seasons of college head-coaching experience, including stops at Kent State, TCU and Ohio, with an overall record of 317-273. He went 75-119 at Boston College from 2014-20, which included a 19-win season and an NIT berth in 2017-18. During his six seasons coaching at Kent State from 2002-08, he was a two-time MAC coach of the year in leading the Golden Flashes to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2006 and ’08. And his .700 winning percentage still ranks as the conference’s best.
From Bethpage, New York, Christian was a member of the Rhode Island team that advanced to the Sweet 16 of the 1988 NCAA Tournament under coach Tom Penders.
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