Tom Bonacum enters his second season with the Iona University men's basketball program and fifth season alongside Tobin Anderson in 2024-25. Bonacum spent a year with Anderson at Fairleigh Dickinson and three at St. Thomas Aquinas.
During his time with Coach Anderson, Bonacum has been responsible for offensive game planning, skill development, film analysis and team operations. In his three seasons at STAC - prior to this past year's remarkable tournament run by FDU - the Spartans posted a 67-12 record with ECC tournament championships and NCAA tournament appearances in each season and two trips to the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 round. Bonacum was an integral part of the skill development of NABC Division II All-American Grant Singleton and Demetre Roberts, a First Team All-Region and First Team All-ECC; two players also instrumental in Fairleigh Dickinson's successful 2022-23 campaign.
Prior to STAC, Bonacum served one season as a player development intern for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks in 2018-2019. His responsibilities included working with members of the coaching staff with an emphasis on player development, video and analytics, serving on the scout team for practices and gameday walkthroughs, charting and analyzing workouts for analytic and development groups and assisting with film study and breakdown of other NBA teams and players.
Bonacum was a 1,500+ point scorer for NCAA Division III Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey. His highly decorated career included a First Team All-American and All-District honors, first team selections for the NABC Atlantic Region, ECAC Metro All-Stars, All-MBWA and All-NJAC honoree. Bonacum was the 2015 NJAC Rookie of the Year and 2017 Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Player of the Year. As a senior, the Roadrunners appeared in the 2018 NCAA Division III Final Four. Bonacum started all 80 games he appeared in from his sophomore through junior campaigns.
He earned a degree in Business Administration from Ramapo in 2018.
COACH ANDERSON ON BONACUM
"Tom has been with me now for five years. "He knows our system and our program as well as anyone does. He has a great feel for how to make players better and how to make our team reach our potential. I am thrilled to have Tom with us."
COACHING EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Coach, Iona (NCAA Division I - MAAC) - 2023-present
- Assistant Coach, FDU (NCAA Division I - NEC) - 2022-2023
- Assistant Coach/Offensive Coordinator, St. Thomas Aquinas (NCAA Division II - ECC) - 2019-2022
- Player Development Intern, Dallas Mavericks (NBA) - 2018-2019
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science, Business Administration - Ramapo (2018)
STUDENT-ATHLETE HONORS
- Member of 2018 NCAA Division III Final Four Ramapo men's basketball team
- 2016-17 NABC First Team All-American and First Team All-District
- 2017 d3hoops.com Atlantic Region Player of the Year
- 2017 NABC Atlantic Region 1st Team
- 2017 ECAC Metro All-Star First Team
- 2017-18 First Team All-MBWA
- Two-time First Team All-NJAC honoree [2015-16, 2017-18]
- 2014-15 NJAC Rookie of the Year
