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- Title:
- Head Men's Basketball Coach
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- Phone:
- (413) 205-3556
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- Email:
- andy.burkholder@aic.edu
Bio
Andy Burkholder was elevated to head men's basketball coach entering the 2014-15 season.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Years: 2014-present (head coach) 2005-11 (assistant coach)
Career Record: 90-148, 52-106 NE10
AIC Record: Same
NCAA Appearances: 1 (2015)
NE10 Conference Titles: 1 (2015)
NE10 Championship MVP: 1 (Cameron Dobbs, 2015)
NE10 First-Team All-Conference selections: 1
NE10 Third-Team All-Conference selections: 1
NE10 All-Conference Honorable Mention selections: 2
NE10 All-Rookie selections: 2
PRIOR STOPS:
Springfield College: Assistant Coach (2002-04)
Elizabethtown (Pa.): Assistant Coach (1997-2002)
In his first season at the helm, Burkholder led the Yellow Jackets to its most successful season in two decades. The Yellow Jackets won their first Northeast-10 Conference Championship since 1994 and hosted the NCAA Division II East Region Championship for the first time in program history.
Coach Burkholder’s first season saw the Yellow Jackets post a record of 24-7, the 10th 20-win season in program history. He was named the BennettRank.com Division II Coach of the Year and NABC East Region Co-Coach of the Year.
Burkholder was previously an assistant under former head coach Art Luptowski from 2005-11 before stepping away from the team to become AIC’s first ever Director of Compliance and start a family.
Burkholder played his college ball at Elizabethtown (Pa.) from 1993-97 and also got his coaching start there as an assistant from 1997-02. In his final year, he helped lead the Blue Jays to a 29-3 record and a berth in the Division III National Championship Game. The players and coaching staff of the 2001-02 team were inducted into the Elizabethtown Hall of Fame in 2012.
He earned his Bachelor’s in Social Work from Elizabethtown in 1997 and his Master’s in Athletic Administration from Springfield College in 2004.
| Overall Record | Conference Record | Postseason Performance | ||||||||
| Year | W | L | Pct. | W | L | Pct. | Conference Finish | Conference Tournament | NCAA Tournament | Nat'l Rank (NABC) |
| 2014-15 | 24 | 8 | .774 | 15 | 5 | .750 | 2nd of 7! | NE10 Champions | East Region Semifinal |
NR |
| 2015-16 | 11 | 16 | .407 | 7 | 13 | .350 | T4th of 7 | NE10 First Round |
-- | NR |
| 2016-17 | 11 | 17 | .393 | 5 | 15 | .250 | 6th of 7 | -- | -- | NR |
| 2017-18 | 11 | 17 | .393 | 6 | 14 | .300 | 6th of 7 | -- | -- | NR |
| 2018-19 | 11 | 17 | .393 | 7 | 13 | .350 | T6th of 7 | -- | -- | NR |
| 2019-20 | 9 | 19 | .321 | 6 | 13 | .316 | 6th of 7 | -- | Not Held* | NR |
| 2020-21 | 2 | 7 | .222 | -- | -- | -- | N/A^ | Not Held^ | -- | NR |
| 2021-22 | 6 | 23 | .207 | 3 | 16 | .158 | 7th of 7 | -- | -- | NR |
| 2022-23 | 5 | 24 | .172 | 3 | 17 | .150 | T12th of 13! | -- | -- | NR |
| TOTAL | 90 | 148 | .378 | 52 | 106 | .329 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
!The NE10 switched to two divisions for basketball beginning in 2014-15; it returned to a single-division format for 2022-23
*NCAA Tournament cancelled (COVID-19 Pandemic)
^The Northeast-10 did not formally hold competition in 2020-21, but allowed individual teams to compete as independents