Mark Gilbride joined Rensselaer in August 2014, taking over the program from Mike Griffin, who retired after 30 years
Mark Gilbride as Head Coach at Rensselaer
| Year |
Overall |
Conf. |
Note(s) |
| 2024-25 |
21-6 |
14-4 |
Liberty League Regular Season Champion |
| 2034-24 |
16-11 |
12-6 |
Liberty League Tournament Semifinals |
| 2022-23 |
19-9 |
11-7 |
Liberty League Tournament Finals |
| 2021-22 |
23-6 |
15-3 |
NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 |
| 2020-21 |
-- |
-- |
No Season Due to Covid-19 |
| 2019-20 |
24-5 |
17-1 |
School Records for Wins; NCAA Tournament |
| 2018-19 |
15-11 |
10-8 |
Liberty League Tournament |
| 2017-18 |
13-12 |
8-10 |
|
| 2016-17 |
14-11 |
8-8 |
|
| 2015-16 |
12-13 |
6-10 |
|
| 2014-15 |
8-17 |
5-11 |
|
at the helm.
A native of Topsham, Maine, and a graduate of Bowdoin College, Gilbride and his teams have enjoyed eight consecutive winning seasons. The Engineers have had historic success in the last five seasons, including three Liberty League regular season titles (2020, 2022, 2025), two NCAA tournament berths (2020, 2022), a school record 24 wins in 2019-2020 and a trip to the Sweet 16 in 2021-2022.
In 2024-2025 the Engineers recorded a 21-6 record and won the Liberty League regular season title for the third time in the last five seasons. Rensselaer advanced to the conference championship game, and three members of the men's basketball team earned All-Liberty League honors for the 2024-25 season. Dylan Matchett was named second team all-league, while Andrew Deppe and Avery Eugster were voted to the third team by the conference's 10 head coaches.
Gilbride has recruited and developed talented student-athletes, including two student-athletes who earned Liberty League Player of the Year honors. Jonny Angbazo was named Liberty League Player of the Year in 2024, and Patrick Mahoney was named Liberty League Player of the Year in 2020. Dom Black was selected as the Liberty League Defensive Player of the Year for three straight seasons in 2020,2022, and 2023.
Gilbride and his assistant coaches have been named Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year twice in 2020 and 2022. In 2022 Gilbride was also honored as the Coach of the Year by the ECAC out of its eighty Division III member schools.
In 2021-22 Gilbride’s squad reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament - the farthest in program history - for just the second time ever. The Engineers won the Liberty League regular season title (15-3), qualified for the national tournament as an at-large team and finished with a 23-6 record. RPI finished the season ranked No. 21 in the final D3hoops.com Poll. Dom Black was named the Defensive Player of the Year and was one of three student-athletes chosen All-Liberty League.
The previous season, 2019-20, RPI set numerous school records and qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Led by All-America First Team honoree Patrick Mahoney, the Engineers had the most wins (24-5) and the most conference victories (17-1) in school history. They tied the school mark for the longest winning streak (18 games) and earned an at-large berth into the national tournament. RPI, which saw Mahoney earn Liberty League Player of the Year and Black capture Defensive Player of the Year, advanced to the Second Round for just the second time ever.
Rensselaer is 165-101 under Gilbride, including 108-68 in conference play. He is 240-152 as a head coach at the collegiate level.
Prior to Rensselaer Gilbride posted a record of 75-51 in five seasons at Clarkson University. He earned more victories in his first five seasons than any other basketball coach in the program's history and his .595 winning percentage was the highest of any Clarkson basketball coach since 1936.
The Golden Knights enjoyed three winning seasons in a row in the Liberty League, the same conference in which Rensselaer participates, for the first time in Clarkson's five decades of league play. The most successful was 2013-14 when Gilbride led the team to a 10-6 league mark (16-10 overall) and a trip to the tournament semifinals. That came on the heels of a 17-8 (9-7) record in 2012-13 - the best in school history at the time.
Before going to Clarkson, Gilbride spent three seasons as an assistant coach at three prestigious institutions at all three divisions of the NCAA: Yale University in 2008-09 (2nd in Ivy League), Stonehill College in 2007-08 (18 wins) and Amherst College in 2006-07 (30-2, NCAA Champions).
A 2002 graduate of Bowdoin with a degree in Economics, Gilbride played with the Polar Bears before staying on as an assistant to begin his coaching career. He spent three seasons as the first assistant and recruiting coordinator, helping attract a class that broke the school record for wins in a season (22).
Gilbride earned a master’s in business administration degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010.
Updated June 2025
