Fran O’Hanlon

Fran O’Hanlon (born August 24, 1948)

Teams coached: Lafayette Leopards
Lafayette record: 361-433 (.455)
Overall record: 361-433 (.455)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  3  (1999, 2000, 2015)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  0
• NIT Appearances:  0
• Patriot League Regular Season Champion:  3  (1998, 1999, 2000)
• Patriot League Tournament Champion:  3  (1999, 2000, 2015)

Awards:

• Gene Bartow Award:  1  (2015)
• Patriot League Coach of the Year:  3  (1998, 1999, 2010)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

1995-2022	Lafayette
1989-1995	Penn (asst)
1985-1986	Maccabi Haifa
1984-1985	Temple (women’s asst)
1983-1984	Hapoel Haifa
1982-1983	Panteras de Lara

Fran O’Hanlon Facts

• Francis Brian O’Hanlon
• Born August 24, 1948
• Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Alma Mater: Villanova University (BS, 1970)
• The Philly-native prepped at St. Thomas More before playing for head coach Jack Kraft at Villanova
  • Drafted in the 8th round of the 1970 NBA Draft but instead played the 1970-71 season with the ABA’s Miami Floridians
  • Spent seven seasons playing overseas with Sweden’s Hageby BK; won a Swedish League title in 1980
• Started coaching in 1982: spent one season with Panteras de Lara (Venezuela) then one with Hapoel Haifa (Israel)
• Spent one year as an assistant with the Temple women’s team before returning to Israel to coach Maccabi Haifa for one season
• Final job before jumping to college basketball was a three-year stint at Monsignor Bonner HS, where he won the Philadelphia Catholic League title in 1988 and was twice named league COY
• Worked as an assistant at Penn for six seasons under longtime Quakers head coach Fran Dunphy
  • Was a part of three Ivy League titles and the corresponding NCAA Tournament berths
    • The 11-seed Quakers upset 6-seed Nebraska in the opening round of the 1994 NCAAs
• Hired in 1995 to take over the Lafayette men’s team, a position he has held ever since
  • By far the all-time winningest coach in program history, with 351 victories as of the end of the 2020-21 season
  • Taken the Leopards to the NCAA Tournament three times, something that the school had only done (1957) once prior
• O’Hanlon announced in January 2022 his intention to retire following the 2021-22 season, his 27th at the school
• Returned to coaching in July 2023, spending the 2023-24 season as head boys’ coach at Cardinal O’Hara HS in the Philadelphia Catholic League

Fran O’Hanlon Coaching Tree

• Steve Donahue (Penn, Boston College, Cornell)
• John Gallagher (Manhattan, Hartford)
• Josh Loeffler (Loyola MD, Johns Hopkins)
• Andrew Radomicki (Chestnut Hill)
• Andrew Toole (Robert Morris)