Current position | |
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Title | Assistant coach |
Team | Loyola (MD) |
Conference | Patriot |
Biographical details | |
Born | Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. | May 18, 1972
Playing career | |
1991–1994 | Princeton |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1995–1996 | Columbia (vol. asst.) |
2000–2007 | Princeton (assistant) |
2007–2009 | American (assistant) |
2009–2013 | Georgetown (assistant) |
2013–2023 | American |
2023–present | Loyola (MD) (assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 125–165 (.431) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Patriot League tournament (2014) | |
Awards | |
Patriot League Coach of the Year (2014) | |
Michael Richard Brennan (born May 18, 1972) [1] is a college basketball head coach who most recently served as head coach of American University and former professional European basketball player who played for teams in Germany, [2] Belgium and Portugal. He previously served as an assistant coach for Columbia University, Georgetown University, Princeton University and American University. [3] Brennan also holds an Irish passport. [4]
Brennan won two Ivy League titles with the Princeton Tigers men's basketball. He played for the Tigers between 1990 and 1994, averaging 5.0 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. [5] Professionally, he spent time in the German Basketball Bundesliga (at Bayer Leverkusen in 1996–97 and Braunschweig in 1997–98), [2] Belgium (at Pepinster in 1998–99) [4] and Portugal.
Brennan was a volunteer assistant coach at Columbia University for one year then served as an assistant coach for Princeton University from 2000 to 2007. After being the assistant coach of Princeton, he became the assistant coach of AU from 2007 to 2009. The next four years he served as an assistant coach for Georgetown University. His overall record as an assistant coach was 252–163.
Brennan was named the head coach of AU in April 2013. [6] In his first season with the Eagles, Brennan led them to a second place regular-season finish in the Patriot League, a Championship in the Patriot League Tournament, and a bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament after being picked to finish just ninth in the Patriot League in the preseason poll. He was named 2014 Patriot League Coach of the Year based on this turnaround. [7] On March 9, 2023, Brennan was fired following a March 5 double overtime loss in Patriot League semifinals. [8]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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American Eagles (Patriot League)(2013–2023) | |||||||||
2013–14 | American | 20–13 | 13–5 | 2nd | NCAA Round of 64 | ||||
2014–15 | American | 17–16 | 8–10 | T–6th | |||||
2015–16 | American | 12–19 | 9–9 | T–4th | |||||
2016–17 | American | 8–22 | 5–13 | T–9th | |||||
2017–18 | American | 6–24 | 3–15 | 10th | |||||
2018–19 | American | 15–15 | 9–9 | 4th | |||||
2019–20 | American | 16–14 | 12–6 | T–2nd | |||||
2020–21 | American | 4–6 | 4–5 | 2nd (South) | |||||
2021–22 | American | 10–22 | 5–13 | 10th | |||||
2022–23 | American | 17–15 | 7–11 | T–6th | |||||
American: | 125–166 (.430) | 74–96 (.435) | |||||||
Total: | 125–166 (.430) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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