MAAC Welcomes Back Patsos
MAAC Sports
Edison, N.J. – Jimmy Patsos will be named the 16th head men’s basketball coach at Siena College.
Patsos assumes his new role after spending the last nine seasons as the head men’s basketball coach at Loyola Maryland University. He guided the Greyhounds to their first back-to-back postseason appearances in the school’s Division I history, after earning the MAAC’s automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and a spot in the 2013 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.
“I am pleased that Coach Patsos will be remaining in the MAAC basketball family,” MAAC Commissioner Richard J. Ensor said. “He brings a great deal of energy, enthusiasm and basketball success to Siena, and will rebuild the program and energize Siena fans. I know Jimmy Patsos was disappointed when Loyola announced the decision to move to the Patriot League. I am happy he will be able to remain in one of the NCAA’s top mid-major basketball conferences.”
In the RPI rankings through games on April 2, 2013, the MAAC is ranked 14th among Division I conferences, with Loyola leading all the league teams at 98.
Patsos led the Greyhounds to the first back-to-back 20-win seasons in Loyola’s Division I history, with a 24-9 record and the school’s second-ever NCAA Championship berth for the 2011-12 season, and an overall mark of 23-12 and advancing to the quarterfinals of the CIT this past season.
After leading his team to win the 2012 MAAC Men’s Basketball Championship title, Patsos was named the recipient of the 2012 Skip Prosser Award, an award established in 2008 to honor those who not only achieve success on the basketball court, but who display moral integrity off of it as well. He is also a finalist for the 2013 award, which will be announced at the CollegeInsider.com Awards Banquet in Atlanta during the 2013 Men’s Final Four.
Earlier this season, Patsos' team scored the highest amongst squads in the State of Maryland in the most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate report. The Greyhounds checked in with a 91-percent GSR, tops among the state's nine Division I schools, for players who entered the school between 2002-2005.
In the year prior to his arrival at Loyola, the Greyhounds finished with a 1-27 record and were the last ranked team in the national RPI. In nine seasons at the Baltimore school, Patsos achieved a 145-135 (.518) record and became the third coach - first in Division I history - to win 100 games in school history. The 2012 The Rock MAAC Coach of the Year also became just the second coach nationally in the last 20 years to take over a program that had won zero or one game the year prior and go on to win 100 or more.