Tom Green was appointed the head coach of the City College of New York men's basketball team in August of 2011.
Green’s resume includes a long list of accomplishments, primarily from his time as the head coach at Farleigh Dickinson University. There, he served as the head coach for 26 years, from 1983 through 2009. He became the winningest coach in the institution’s history, while also staking claim to being the winningest coach in NEC history. Also during his long tenure there, he helped produce a total of seven 20-win seasons, and took the Knights to four NCAA Division I National tournaments.
Prior to his days establishing himself as a household name at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Green spent seven years as an assistant coach at Tulane University from 1976-1983. There, he coached NIT squads in 1982 and 1983. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at Syracuse University for four seasons from 1972 through 1976, and saw four teams qualify for the NCAA tournament. During the 1974-1975 season, Syracuse finished the campaign 23-9 and made it all the way to the Final Four. It was only the second time in the school’s history that the squad had advanced past the second round. Green’s first major coaching stint was when he was an assistant coach at Drew University during the 1971-1972 season.
In all, Green’s coaching tenure has seen him be a part of eight teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament, including four squads that played in the NIT Tournament. The Brockway, Pennsylvania native has been named Coach of the Year during his career by five different organizations, including the NIT, the MBWA, the Northeast Conference, the New Jersey Sports Writers and the New Jersey Coaches Association.
