Brett Ervin rejoined the men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach on July 1, 2018 after serving as a graduate assistant from August 2015-May 2017.
“It’s with great pleasure that we welcome Brett Ervin back to the Le Moyne Men’s Basketball program,” said Beilein, who is entering his fourth season in 2018-19. “Brett brings knowledge and experience from his time both as a Graduate Assistant at Le Moyne College and the past year he spent as an Assistant Coach at West Liberty University. Brett is a rising star in the coaching business and will help to elevate our program as we strive to build on last year’s success.”
“I am absolutely thrilled to return to the Heights, a place where Jesuit values are instilled in our young men, and also an opportunity to coach in one of the toughest leagues in Division II, the NE10,” said Ervin. “When Coach Beilein called with this opportunity, it was a no-brainer. I have learned so much from him as a player and also during my two years as his GA. The chance to continue to learn from him was something I could not pass up. We will have a lot of new faces in our program this year and I look forward to the challenge of getting these guys back to the NCAA tournament.”
Ervin returns for his third season on the sidelines of the Dolphins after spending two seasons as a graduate assistant under Beilein from 2015-17. In his prior stint with the Dolphins, Ervin assisted with practice plans, on-court instruction, recruiting and scouting. He also organized team travel, film exchange and individual skill instruction and monitored student-athlete academic progress. The 2016-17 team won the Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division championship for the first time in the program’s history and earned the top seed in the East Region of the NCAA Championships.
Ervin comes back to the Heights from West Liberty University in his home state of West Virginia. He served as the lead assistant coach for the Hilltoppers for the 2017-18 season. Ervin helped guide the Hilltoppers to a 26-4 record, the Mountain East Conference regular season championship and the fourth seeded in the NCAA Championships Atlantic Region. West Liberty led the nation in scoring (105.2 ppg.), turnover margin (+8.0/game), assists (20.8/game) and assist/turnover ratio (+1.98) while ranking among the top-five nationally in 12 statistical categories. In his role with the Hilltoppers, he was responsible for all aspects of the operations of the program.
In late April 2018, he was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches' 2017-18 Under Armour 30-Under-30 honor roll, which recognizes up-and-coming coaches in men's college basketball under the age of 30.
Ervin played his first three seasons of collegiate basketball at Division-I Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. He completed his career at Division-II West Virginia Wesleyan University in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Playing for Beilein, Ervin led the Bobcats to a 20-12 record and averaged 12.1 points and 4.0 rebounds per game, while connecting on 92 three-pointers, the second-most in the Mountain East Conference and the 13th-most in Division II.
Ervin is a 2014 graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan, where he earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Accounting. He has since received a master’s degree in Sports Management from West Virginia University in August 2016 and an MBA from Le Moyne in December 2017.
