Steve Donahue

Steve Donahue
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Boston College
Playing career
1980–1984	Ursinus
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984–1987 1987–1988 1988–1990 1990–2000 2000–2010 2010–present	Springfield HS (asst.) Monsignor Bonner HS (asst.) Philadelphia (asst.) Penn (asst.) Cornell Boston College

Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Boston College.

A native of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania and a former player at Ursinus College, Donahue previously served as head coach at Cornell University, an assistant coach at Penn, Philadelphia University, Monsignor Bonner High School and Springfield High School. He had been the head coach at Cornell from September 2000 until April 6, 2010.

Recent highlights of the Cornell basketball program under Donahue include a March 1, 2008 defeat of the Harvard Crimson to win the Ivy League championship for the first time since 1988 and just the second title in program history. On March 6, 2009, with Princeton's loss to Columbia, Cornell clinched the Ivy League Championship for a second consecutive year. It was the first time in 50 years that any team other than Penn or Princeton had won consecutive Ivy League titles in basketball.

Exactly one year later on March 6, 2010, Donahue's Cornell team defeated the Brown Bears to clinch their third consecutive title and fourth in team history. This guaranteed an automatic bid for Cornell in the 2010 NCAA basketball tournament, in which Cornell was given a 12-seed in the East region. Cornell went on to win two games in the tournament, defeating 5-seed Temple and then 4-seed Wisconsin, both victories by double digit margins, to advance to the Sweet 16, the first Ivy League team to advance this far since 1979 (when Penn reached the final four). There they fell to the 1-seed Kentucky Wildcats, ending their historic run. This team featured several lauded seniors, including point guard Louis Dale, who finished as the third highest scorer and top assist man in Cornell history; center Jeff Foote, whose presence in the middle was essential to Cornell's success; and forward Ryan Wittman, who finished as the top scorer in Cornell men's basketball history (and the 5th highest scorer overall in Ivy League's men's basketball history) at 2,028 points.

Donahue received the Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award for his accomplishments during the 2009-2010 season.

On April 6, 2010, Boston College announced that Donahue had been hired as the head coach of its basketball program, replacing coach Al Skinner.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Cornell (Ivy League) (2000–2010)
2000–2001	Cornell	7–20	3–11	T–7th
2001–2002	Cornell	5–22	2–12	7th
2002–2003	Cornell	9–18	4–10	T–5th
2003–2004	Cornell	11–16	6–8	T–5th
2004–2005	Cornell	13–14	8–6	2nd
2005–2006	Cornell	13–15	8–6	3rd
2006–2007	Cornell	16–12	9–5	3rd
2007–2008	Cornell	22–6	14–0	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2008–2009	Cornell	21–10	11–3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
2009–2010	Cornell	29–5	13–1	1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Cornell:		146–138	78–62
Boston College (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2010–present)
2010–2011	Boston College	21–13	9–7	T–4th	NIT 2nd Round
2011–2012	Boston College	2–7	0–0
Boston College:		23–20	9–7
Total:		169–158
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season & conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

External links

• Cornell Big Red.com official biography