Lafayette Leopards basketball
Lafayette Leopards basketball history
Lafayette College (Easton, PA)
Kirby Sports Center
Patriot League
Current head coach: Mike McGarvey (2023-)
- Asst: Cameron Ayers (2022-)
- Asst: Nikolai Arnold (2023-)
- Asst: Sean O’Brien (2022-)
- DBO: Darius Dangerfield (2023-)
Post-Season:
- National Championships: 0
- Final Four Appearances: 0
- Sweet Sixteen Appearances: 1 (1957)
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (1957, 1999, 2000, 2015)
- NCAAT Overall Record: 0-5
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 5 (1955, 1956, 1972, 1975, 1980)
- NIT Overall Record: 1-5
Conference Titles (MASCN, Middle Three, Middle Atlantic, ECC, Patriot League):
- Patriot League Regular Season Championships: 3 (1998, 1999, 2000)
- East Coast Regular Season Championships: 7 (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1988)
- Middle Atlantic Regular Season Championships: 3 (1970, 1971, 1973)
- Middle Three Regular Season Championships: 2 (1950, 1952)
- MASCN Regular Season Championships: 2 (1946, 1949)
- Patriot League Tournament Championships: 3 (1999, 2000, 2015)
Award Winners:
- Naismith Player of the Year: 0
- John R. Wooden Award: 0
- Oscar Robertson Trophy: 0
- AP All-Americans: 0
- Patriot League Player of the Year: 3 (last = Brett Ehlers, 2000)
- East Coast Player of the Year: 2 (last = Todd Tripucka, 1976)
- Middle Atlantic Player of the Year: 4 (last = Earl Brown, 1974)
Lafayette head coaches:
| Coach | Tenure | Record | Conf. Titles | NCAA Apps. | Nat. Champ |
| Mike McGarvey | 2023-Pres | 13-24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Jordan | 2022-23 | 9-20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fran O’Hanlon | 1995-2022 | 361-433 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| John Leone | 1988-95 | 68-128 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Butch van Breda Kolff | 1951-55, 84-88 | 132-85 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Will Rackley | 1980-84 | 46-66 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Roy Chipman | 1977-80 | 60-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tom Davis | 1971-77 | 116-44 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Hal Wissel | 1967-71 | 43-59 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| George Davidson | 1955-67 | 170-116 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Raymond Stanley | 1949-51 | 32-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| William Anderson | 1917-19, 20-25, 45-49 | 139-82 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Art Winters | 1942-45 | 30-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Richard Madison | 1938-42 | 29-41 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Michalske | 1936-38 | 15-21 | – | – | – |
| P.M. Shellenberger | 1935-36 | 7-9 | – | – | – |
| H.A. Lorenz | 1929-35 | 37-46 | – | – | – |
| Michael Miller | 1925-29 | 25-46 | – | – | – |
| W.F. McAvoy | 1919-20 | 3-7 | – | – | – |
| J.B. Quig | 1916-17 | 15-9 | – | – | – |
| W.G. Crowell | 1915-16 | 7-9 | – | – | – |
| Joe Fogarty | 1914-15 | 4-10 | – | – | – |
| no coach | 1900-03, 13-14 | 32-31 | – | – | – |
| no team | 1903-13 | – | – | – | – |
Key: Conf. Titles= Regular Season only, NCAA Apps= NCAA Tournament Appearances, Nat. Champ= NCAA Tournament Champions
NOTE: Overall program records on this page do not include anything later vacated by the NCAA.
