Penn alum Matt Langel lands HC position at Colgate

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Temple assistant men's basketball coach Matt Langel — a 2000 Wharton graduate — was hired as the new head coach of the Colgate Raiders today.

Langel played for the Quakers from 1996-2000 and led them to two Ivy League titles and NCAA tournament appearances. He was a first-team all-Ivy selection as a senior and received Ivy League and Big Five Player of the Week honors numerous times. He is a member of the 1000-point club and remains in fourth in the Penn recordbooks for career three-pointers made with 201.

Langel was an assistant at Penn for two years under Fran Dunphy and helped guide his alma mater to two consecutive Ivy championships. He followed Dunphy to Temple in 2006 and has been there ever since.

Langel will try to revive a Colgate program that went 7-23 this season, with a 4-10 conference record in the Patriot League.

When the Colgate position opened on March 16, rumors swirled that former Penn coach Glen Miller was at the top of the list of potential coaches, but he was recently promoted to assistant coach of the national champion UConn Huskies.

If you want to do some light reading on Matt Langel, here is an interview with the Penn Gazette from January 2010. One highlight from the Gazette article:

"In all honesty, I wouldn’t have chosen this profession when I was done playing overseas if it wasn’t for my experience playing for Coach [Dunphy] and knowing the impact he had on my life. The idea that maybe I could have that same impact on other young guys’ lives, as well as their basketball careers, influenced me to pursue this as a profession."