Chris DeFelice joins the Nicholls men’s basketball coaching staff after stints with Loyola, UT-Dallas, Miami, Long Island, McNeese State, District of Columbia, Montgomery College-Takoma Park and the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville.
DeFelice worked as an assistant coach for Catonsville over the 2013-14 season.
Prior to his work with the Cardinals, DeFelice was the men’s basketball head coach for Montgomery College, starting the program from scratch in the summer of 2011. DeFelice led the Falcons to a 6-1 record, including victories over each of the other two campuses in the Montgomery College system.
From 2005 to 2009, DeFelice served as the tennis head coach and men’s basketball assistant head coach for the UDC Firebirds. The team was 1-22 his first year with no recruited student-athletes, but jumped to 20-9 in the following season, the third-biggest turnaround in NCAA Division II history.
Preceding his work with UDC, DeFelice was an assistant with McNeese State, serving from 2002 to 2005, and made the Southland Conference Tournament in two of his three years with the team.
During the 2001-02 season DeFelice served as an assistant at Long Island University. The team started 0-9, but won six of its last nine games after DeFelice was promoted to assistant head coach.
DeFelice was a graduate assistant for the University of Miami men’s basketball in the 2000-01 season, where he helped two NBA players, John Salmons (New Orleans Pelicans) and James Jones (Indiana Pacers). The squad reached the NIT tournament.
In the 1999-00 season DeFelice was an assistant men’s basketball coach and head tennis coach for UT-Dallas. The Comets saw a 14-win increase from the previous year.
DeFelice earned his first coaching opportunity as an assistant men’s basketball coach and head tennis coach at Loyola of New Orleans during the 1998-99 season. The Wolf Pack saw a 14-win increase from the previous season and earned the first winning season for Loyola in NAIA Division I.
DeFelice is a 1998 graduate of Tulane University.
