{"id":201748,"date":"2026-03-22T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:07:15","slug":"providence-hires-bryan-hodgson-from-usf-as-new-mens-basketball-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201748\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence hires Bryan Hodgson from USF as new men’s basketball head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Providence has hired Bryan Hodgson from the University of South Florida as its new men\u2019s basketball coach. The school officially announced the hiring<\/a> on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

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Hodgson, 38, just finished his first season at USF, where he coached the Bulls to a 25-9 record with regular-season (15-3) and tournament championships in the American Conference. Making the NCAA tournament<\/a> as a No. 11 seed, USF lost its first-round matchup to No. 6 Louisville on Thursday, 83-79<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this new revenue share\/NIL landscape, I knew we needed a coach with the energy, passion and the skills to get us back to competing for championships and playing in the NCAA Tournament,\u201d Providence athletic director Steve Napolillo said in the school\u2019s announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBryan has revived two Division 1 programs and it is our goal for him to bring new life into Friar men’s basketball,\u201d he added. \u201cOver the last three years, Bryan has successfully used analytics, his recruiting skills and coaching to win 70 games. Bryan is a winner and we need a winning culture at Providence College. We are looking forward to the start of a new era in Friartown as we enter the 100th year of Providence College men’s basketball.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Hodgson declined to take the head-coach opening at Syracuse, The Field of 68\u2019s Jeff Goodman reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to his stint at USF, Hodgson coached two seasons at Arkansas State, where he compiled a 45-28 record and Sun Belt regular-season title.<\/p>\n

Before taking his first head-coaching job, Hodgson was an assistant on Nate Oats\u2019 staff at Alabama for five seasons, working as the Crimson Tide\u2019s lead recruiter. Among his top recruits were Brandon Miller, now a star with the NBA\u2019s Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n

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Hodgson replaces Kim English, who was dismissed<\/a> after the Friars finished 15-18 overall and tied for second-to-last in the Big East with a 7-13 record. As the No. 9 seed in the Big East conference tournament, Providence beat No. 8 Butler, 91-81<\/a>, before losing to eventual champion St. John\u2019s, 85-72<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In three seasons at Providence, English finished with a 48-52 mark, registering a winning record in only the 2023-24 campaign. The Friars did not earn an NCAA tournament berth under English. He was fired with four years and more than $6 million remaining<\/a> on the six-year extension<\/a> he agreed to after that first season when Providence went to the NIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Providence has hired Bryan Hodgson from the University of South Florida as its new men\u2019s basketball coach. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24734,63579,92968,5825,10634,92971,11474,93032,38056,135,137,136,93033,3650,1537],"class_list":["post-201748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-american-conference","tag-brandon-miller","tag-bryan-hodgson","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-coach","tag-kim-english","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-providence-college","tag-providence-friars","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tournament-championships","tag-university-of-south-florida","tag-usf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}