Coaching Staff
in 1989 and 1990. Notre Dame reached the NIT finals in 1992,
losing to Virginia in overtime, and advanced to the quarterfinals
of the event in 1997. At 26, McCaffery was the nation’s youngest
Division I head coach when he was hired Sept. 11, 1985, at
Lehigh. McCaffery capped his three-year tenure with the
Engineers with a 21-win season and an NCAA berth in 1988.
In three seasons as head coach at Lehigh, he compiled a 49-39
overall record and guided the team to the NCAA Tournament
in 1988. At the time, he was the youngest head coach to reach
Fran McCaffery Coaching Marks
Overall (12 Seasons): 224-171
At Siena (Four Seasons): 85-44
At UNCG (Six Seasons): 90-87
At Lehigh (Three Seasons): 49-40
NCAA Tournament: (Four appearances*) 2-4
NIT (Two app.): 1-2
Preseason NIT (One app.): 1-1
five of the eight games it
played at the Greensboro Coliseum. McCaffery, a
*McCaffery is the first head coach to bring three different pro-
Philadelphia native who attended LaSalle High School, and his
grams from one-bid leagues to the NCAA Tournament (confer-
wife, Margaret, have four children: sons, Connor, Patrick and
ences that sent just one team the year his program advanced).
Jonathan and a daughter, Marit. The McCaffery’s are actively
involved in Coaches vs. Cancer in the Capital Region and beyond.
the NCAA Tournament. His Lehigh teams had two winning seasons
in three years and the 1987-88 squads’ 21-10 record remains the
best in program history. Lehigh had just four winning seasons in the
55 years prior to his arrival. McCaffery was assistant coach and
recruiting coordinator at Lehigh from 1983-85 and helped the team
to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1985. As recruiting
coordinator, he helped sign Darren Queenan ’88, who remains
Lehigh’s all-time leading scorer. Queenan was second in the nation
in scoring in 1988, and went on to play in the USBL. McCaffery
was assistant varsity coach and head sub-varsity coach at his alma
mater, Pennsylvania, during the 1982-83 season. At Penn, he worked
for Craig Littlepage who is now the director of athletics at the
University of Virginia. McCaffery lettered three years as point guard
on the men’s basketball team at Pennsylvania as one of the first
transfers to play for the Quakers. He earned a bachelor of science
degree from The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1982.
In 1985 he received his master’s degree in education from Lehigh.
In three seasons as a player he helped lead Penn to a pair of NCAA
Tournament appearances and Ivy
League titles and one berth in the
Fran McCaffery Collegiate Coaching Marks
NIT. As a senior in 1981-82, he
led the Ivy League in steals and
Year College W L Highlights
assists and was voted the team’s 1985-86 Lehigh 13 16 Youngest head coach in America at age 26
most inspirational player. 1986-87 Lehigh 15 14
Recruited as the successor at
1987-88 Lehigh 21 10 NCAA Tournament; Most wins in program history
point guard to Skip Brown at
1999-2000 UNCG 15 13 18th most improved team in Division I
Wake Forest, McCaffery played
2000-2001 UNCG 19 12 NCAA Tournament; Southern Conference Champions
one season at Wake Forest,
2001-2002 UNCG 20 11 NIT; Southern Conference Regular-Season Champions
1977-78, helping the Demon
2002-2003 UNCG 7 22
Deacons to a 19-10 record.
2003-2004 UNCG 11 17
Nicknamed “White Magic,” he
2004-2005 UNCG 18 12 Southern Conference Championship Game
started 11 of 28 games as coach
2005-2006 Siena 15 13 T-5th Most Improved team in Division I
Carl Tacy’s team finished runner-
up in the ACC Tournament to
2006-2007 Siena 20 12 MAAC Championship Game
eventual NCAA runner-up Duke.
2007-2008 Siena 23 11 MAAC Champions, NCAA win over Vanderbilt
Wake defeated UNC Chapel Hill
2008-2009 Siena 27 8 MAAC Champions, NCAA win over Ohio State, Tied program
twice in three meetings and won
record for wins, No. 28 in final USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll
Overall – 224-171 (.567)
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