Josh Loeffler

Josh Loeffler (born July 22, 1981)

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Loyola Greyhounds
Current conference: Patriot League
Stevens record: 46-13 (.780)
Johns Hopkins record: 114-27 (.809)
Loyola (MD) record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record^: 160-40 (.800)

Career Accomplishments:

  • NCAA National Championships:  0
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances:  0
  • NIT Championships:  0
  • NIT Appearances:  0
  • Patriot League Regular Season Champion:  0
  • Centennial (Div III) Regular Season Champion: (2018, 2022, 2023)
  • Empire 8 (Div III) Regular Season Champion: (2008)
  • Skyline (Div III) Regular Season Champion: (2007)
  • Patriot League Tournament Champion:  0
  • Centennial (Div III) Tournament Champion:  3  (2018, 2020, 2022)
  • NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances:  5  (2007, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023)

Awards:

  • Centennial (Div III) Coach of the Year:  2  (2018, 2023)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2024-present Loyola (MD)
2023-2024 Cincinnati (asst)
2017-2023 Johns Hopkins
2013-2017 Loyola (MD) (asst)
2012-2013 Rutgers (DBO)
2008-2012 Lafayette (asst)
2006-2008 Stevens
2005-2006 Williams (asst)
2004-2005 St. Lawrence (grad. asst)
2003-2004 Williams (asst)

Josh Loeffler Facts

  • Joshua Alan Loeffler
  • Born July 22, 1981
  • Hometown: West Grove, Pennsylvania
  • Alma Mater: Swarthmore College (BA, 2003)
  • The PA-native played four seasons at D-III Swarthmore, where he was three-year starter for head coach Lee Wimberly
  • Got his coaching start with stints at D-III Williams College under head coach Dave Paulsen and at D-III St. Lawrence under Chris Downs
  • Spent two seasons as the head coach at D-III Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, where he went 46-13 overall and won shares of the conference regular season title both years
  • Moved up to the Division I ranks in 2008, spending the next four years as an assistant under Fran O’Hanlon at Lafayette
  • Was DBO at Rutgers for one year (under Mike Rice Jr.) and then spent four seasons on G.G. Smith‘s staff at Loyola (MD) as an assistant
  • Had a very successful six-year tenure as the head coach at D-III Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, going 114-27 overall
    • Went to four NCAA Tournaments, won three Centennial Conference titles and was twice named the league’s COY
  • Left JHU in 2023 to become an assistant at Cincinnati in the Big 12 under head coach Wes Miller
  • In March 2024, Loeffler returned to Loyola (MD) as the Greyhounds’ new head coach

Josh Loeffler Coaching Tree

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^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division III levels