player_team coach_years current_team championships birth_place player_positions overall_record player_years coach_team awards current_title sport birth_date current_record article_title name
st. john 's hofstra 1991 2010 -- present -- 2005 2005 -- 2006 2006 -- 2010 iona -lrb- season championship 2013 maac tournament championship 2012 , 2014 , 2015 -rrb- maac regular queens , new york forward 238 -- 87 1978 -- 1981 1982 -- 1983 saint mary 's hs suffolk cc c.w. post iona 2012 ncaa tournament at-large bid head coach basketball 9 march 1959 118 -- 54 tim cluess
 tim cluess
tim cluess

tim cluess -lrb- born march 9 , 1959 -rrb- is an american college basketball coach and the current head men 's basketball coach at iona college , and former coach of long island university -- c.w. post .
he took over iona from kevin willard on april 8 , 2010 .
cluess posted a 120 -- 33 record in five seasons as a head coach at the college level at both c.w. post and suffolk county community college .
he led the c.w. post pioneers to three straight first place finishes in the east coast conference including two tournament titles in 2007 -- 08 and 2008 -- 09 .
the pioneers held a perfect 24 -- 0 regular season record in 2008 -- 09 en route to an ncaa division ii elite eight tournament appearance and a 30 -- 1 final record .
prior to his collegiate experience , cluess was the head coach of saint mary 's high school in manhasset , new york for 14 seasons .
cluess 's gaels won four class a new york state catholic high school athletic association -lrb- nyschsaa -rrb- championships and two new york state federation of secondary schools athletic associations -lrb- nysfssa -rrb- championships .
among his 50 + players at saint mary 's to earn an athletic scholarship to play collegiate basketball was former university of north carolina standout and current san antonio spurs swingman danny green .
in 2004 -- 05 , saint mary 's posted a 25 -- 1 overall record .
notable players on the team were danny green -lrb- nba 's spurs -rrb- , rashad green -lrb- san francisco -rrb- , tyrone hanson -lrb- jackson state -rrb- , tyson johnson -lrb- wyoming , now playing professionally overseas -rrb- , gilbert montalvo -lrb- c.w. post -rrb- and aleek pauline -lrb- norfolk state -rrb- .
from 1999 to 2001 , tim cluess ' st. mary 's club boasted dominant teams and plenty of notable players , including joel suarez -lrb- hofstra university -rrb- , ilian `` shoush '' evtimov -lrb- nc state university , france pro league for proteas eka ael -rrb- , kenny grant -lrb- davidson college , sweden national team , sweden pro league for nancy -rrb- , matt preston -lrb- columbia university , dutch pro league for omniworld almere -rrb- , dwayne byfield -lrb- monmouth university , poland pro league for slask wroclaw -rrb- and mamadou diakhate -lrb- fairfield university -rrb- .
born in queens , new york , cluess played professionally in europe and australia after a collegiate career at both st. john 's -lrb- 1978 -- 81 -rrb- and hofstra -lrb- 1982 -- 83 -rrb- .
