NEW YORK, NY (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | New Jersey City University sixth-year head men's basketball coach Marc Brown has been voted the 2012-13 Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Division III Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. Brown, who in February was also named the New Jersey Athletic ConferenceCoach of the Year for the first time, will be honored as part of the 80th NIT/MBWA Haggerty Awards banquet. The awards dinner will be held on Monday, April 15 at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, NY.
Brown becomes the third coach in program history to have been voted the NIT/MBWA Coach of the Year, joining his legendary father, Charles Brown, who won the award on three occasions—1989-90, 1991-92 and 2003-04—and Paul Weinstein, the first winner from the University in 1978-79.
"It's another feather in the cap for a season that ended on a positive note and an award that's driving me to improve myself as a coach," the younger Brown said. "Obviously to be honored regionally like this is pretty special. I'm really looking forward to next year."
In what was supposed to be a rebuilding season for the Gothic Knights—having lost five starters and nearly 90 percent of its scoring offense and rebounding from the 2011-12 season—the year did not begin well for NJCU. The Knights opened the year with a 2-7 record (0-6 NJAC) thru December 12 and a 4-9 mark (0-7 NJAC) as of January 5.
But in the New Year, NJCU, guided by Brown, and assistant coaches Chris Brown and Jonathan Greene, engineered what is believed to be the greatest turnaround to a season in Division III basketball history. With only two letter-winners from 2011-12 still on its roster at that point of the season, NJCU rebounded from a 0-7 record in the NJAC in early January, to win nine of its final 11 league games and became the first known men's or women's team in Division III history to qualify for its conference tournament after such a start.
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