University of St. Joseph men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun announced Thursday that he was stepping down from that role effective immediately.
Assistant head coach Glen Miller will be the Division III university’s new head men’s basketball coach.
Calhoun — a 40-year veteran of coaching men’s basketball including 26 years at the University of Connecticut where he won NCAA titles in 1999, 2004 and 2011 — was recruited to St. Joseph about five years ago to build the men’s basketball team from scratch. He was head coach for a little more than three seasons. The university had been an all-women’s institution.
“It’s just the right time. I’m healthy, my wife (Pat) is healthy and the USJ men’s basketball program is healthy,” the 79-year-old Calhoun said in a statement. “We’ve got a great new facility and accomplished a lot on the court the past few seasons. I plan to be involved with the university, but there are a lot of things that I would like to do, and it’s time to spend more time with my wife and family.”
Calhoun was 47-17 during his time at the university, leading the team to the 2020 Great Northeast Athletic Conference championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament in the team’s second season.
St. Joseph President Dr. Rhona Free said in a statement that the veteran coach “has stayed longer and done more for USJ than I could ever have hoped for when we first talked to him about launching our men’s basketball team and, with it, the transition to coeducation almost five years ago.”
