Iona College men's basketball head coach
Tim Cluess announced the addition of
Adam Ginsburg to the staff for the 2017-18 season. Ginsburg comes to New Rochelle after 12 seasons at UMass and will serve as assistant coach.
"We're thrilled to have Adam and Ricky on board this season," said Cluess. "We look forward to having their skills complement our current staff and help us to success on and off the court."
With 20 years of coaching experience, Ginsburg spent the last 12 as an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts, coaching under both Derek Kellogg and Travis Ford. Ginsburg's name is synonymous with the program's recent success and return to national prominence during the last decade-plus.
Over the previous nine campaigns, Ginsburg helped lead UMass to three national postseason berths through a pair of NIT appearances and the program's 2014 NCAA Tournament bid, its first in 16 seasons. With Ginsburg's assistance, the Minutemen also navigated to back-to-back Atlantic 10 Championship semifinals in 2011 and 2012.
In addition to his role at UMass, Ginsburg embraced a head coaching opportunity with his appointment by Maccabi USA as the organization's U.S. Junior Boys' Team leader for the 2017 Maccabiah Games. Ginsburg assembled and guided a team of young men for an appearance in the Maccabiah Games, hosted in Israel in July 2017.
Ginsburg led national recruitment efforts from throughout New England and the greater Northeast region, down the Atlantic Seaboard to Florida and across the Western United States through Texas and up into the Pacific Northwest during his time at UMass. Ginsburg helped bring in a nationally ranked recruiting class in 2016-17 that ranked first among all Atlantic 10 teams.
On the court, Ginsburg fostered success among players coached at the guard, forward and center positions over his tenure, highlighted by Cady Lalanne's growth into an Atlantic 10 All-Conference pick and San Antonio Spurs NBA Draft selection. During Ginsburg's tenure, the program recorded two Associated Press All-Americans, a pair of A-10 Players of the Year, three league Defensive Players of the Year, nine NABC All-District picks and 12 All-Atlantic 10 honors.
Three years after Ginsburg joined the coaching staff at UMass, the Minutemen made their deepest postseason run in program history when the Maroon and White advanced to the 2008 NIT Championship Game. In addition to that postseason success, during the 2006-2007 campaign, the Minutemen won a share of the Atlantic 10 Regular Season Title with a 13-3 league ledger.
Prior to joining UMass in 2005, Ginsburg coached with Ron Everhart at Northeastern University from 2001-2005. With Ginsburg's assistance, the Huskies improved their overall record during each of Ginsburg's four seasons coaching with the program.
Prior to his arrival at NU, Ginsburg spent two years at Towson University. While with the Tigers, Ginsburg served as an assistant coach under Mike Jaskulski and was director of the summer basketball camp program.
Ginsburg, a 1997 graduate of the University at Buffalo, began his involvement with college coaching as a manager for the men's basketball team. Upon graduation from Buffalo, Ginsburg headed to the University of Florida as a staff assistant with the Gators under coach Billy Donovan. Ginsburg received his master's degree in Sports Management at Florida and was part of the Gators' NCAA Sweet 16-bound team in 1999.
A forward-driven individual, Ginsburg sought out coaching experience even before his graduation from the University at Buffalo. In 1995, he served as an assistant coach under Jim Kramer of the Nichols School, a college preparatory day school in Buffalo, New York.
Less than one year after his introduction to coaching youth basketball at the Nichols School, Ginsburg earned the opportunity to be the Head Coach of a Junior Maccabiah basketball team for four years, with his team earning a bronze medal in the 1996 holding of the event.
A native of Baldwin, New York, Ginsburg and his wife, Beth, have two children.
| AT A GLANCE: |
| Adam Ginsburg (Buffalo '97, Florida '99) |
| Coaching Experience |
| 2005-2017 |
Massachusetts |
Assistant Coach |
| 2001-2005 |
Northeastern |
Assistant Coach |
| 1999-2001 |
Towson |
Assistant Coach |
| 1997-1999 |
Florida |
Staff Assistant |
