Tobin Anderson (born December 1, 1971)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Fairleigh Dickinson Knights
Current conference: Northeast Conference (NEC)
Clarkson record^: 67-66 (.504)
Hamilton College record^: 118-63 (.652)
St. Thomas Aquinas record^: 209-62 (.771)
Fairleigh Dickinson record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record^: 394-191 (.674)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- NEC Regular Season Champion: 0
- ECC (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 5 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022)
- UCAA (Div III) Regular Season Champion: 3 (2006, 2007, 2009)
- NEC Tournament Champion: 0
- ECC (Div II) Tournament Champion: 6 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- UCAA (Div III) Tournament Champion: 1 (2006)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 7 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances: 1 (2006)
Awards:
- ECC (Div II) Coach of the Year: 3 (2015, 2016, 2022)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | Fairleigh Dickinson |
| 2013-2022 | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| 2011-2013 | Siena (asst) |
| 2004-2011 | Hamilton College |
| 1999-2004 | Clarkson |
| 1997-1999 | Le Moyne (asst) |
| 1996-1997 | Clarkson (asst) |
Tobin Anderson Facts
- Tobin Anderson
- Born December 1, 1971
- Hometown: Truro, Iowa
- Alma Mater: Wesleyan (CT) University (BS, 1995) / Florida State University (MA, 1996)
- Grew up in rural Iowa and played basketball for his dad, Steve, who would later serve as one of Tobin’s assistants at Hamilton
- Was a four-year starter and two-time captain at D-III Wesleyan (CT), where he was coached by Herb Kenny
- Started his coaching career with stints as an assistant at D-III Clarkson (NY) under Walter Townes and at D-II Le Moyne (NY) under future D-I head coach Dave Paulsen
- Returned to Clarkson in 1999 and spent five seasons as head coach, going 67-66 overall
- Next up was a seven-year stint as thee head coach at D-III Hamilton College (NY), also in the UCAA (now Liberty League), where he went 118-63 while at the helm
- Won three UCAA titles and in 2006 won the UCAA Tournament to get an auto bid to D-III NCAA Tournament
- Moved up to the D-I level in 2011, joining Mitch Buonaguro‘s staff as an assistant at Siena
- Hired in 2013 to be the head coach at D-II St. Thomas Aquinas (NY), where he led the Spartans for nine seasons
- Went 209-62 overall, building STAC into a D-II and ECC powerhouse; won five ECC titles and six ECC Tournaments (with two separate three-peats) and reached the D-II NCAA Tournament every year from 2016-22
- Often played against D-I competition and in 2015, the Spartans beat St. John’s by 32 points on the road
- In May 2022, Anderson was hired to be the new head coach at D-I Fairleigh Dickinson in the NEC
Tobin Anderson Coaching Tree
- Matt Capell (St. Thomas Aquinas)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III levels