Niagara names Penn hoops alum new AD

Niagara has hired 1978 Penn alumnus Tom Crowley to fill their open Athletic Director position.

Crowley played basketball for the Quakers from 1975-78 and was the captain of the 1978 Ivy League championship team. That year, he averaged 8.2 points per game while also leading the team in field goal percentage. The 1978 Quakers went 2-2 in Big 5 play and also won an NCAA Tournament game to make the Sweet 16 before falling to Duke.

The following year, Crowley started his rise up the ranks of college basketball coaches as an assistant coach for the Quakers’ 1979 run to the Final Four. From there, he went on to become an assistant coach at Xavier, Rutgers and Stanford before becoming a head coach at Division II St. Michael’s college.

Since the early 2000s, he has worked on the administrative side of athletics, working at Vermont, Temple and, most recently, Butler.

— Steven Tydings