Jim Engles enters his 8th season as the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) men's basketball head coach. Few college coaches anywhere, in any sport, have transformed their program the way Jim Engles has since taking over at NJIT in 2008.
Stepping in for the 2008-09 season, he inherited a program that had been 0-29 the year before, in its second season of Division I competition. The 0-29 from the previous year had been preceded by four losses at the end of the 2006-07 season. And NJIT was an Independent, with no conference tournament to look forward to.