Dave Paulsen won 170 games at Williams and has 262 wins overall.

Bucknell replaced one Division III national champion coach with another as the Bison announced Williams coach Dave Paulsen as their new men's basketball coach.

The Division I school, which saw Pat Flannery retire last month, hired Flannery from Lebanon Valley, where he won the 1994 Division III men's basketball national championship.

Paulsen directed the Ephs to back-to-back national championship games, including the 2003 national championship, and compiled a 170-55 record in Williamstown. He is the second Division III men's basketball coach to get a Division I head coaching job in the past week, following Lycoming's Don Friday, who was hired at St. Francis (Pa.).

Following the 2003-04 run, in which the Ephs went 61-3, Williams has gone 66-37 (.641). 

"I am very excited about the opportunity to carry on the tradition of success that has been built at Bucknell through the years," said Paulsen in a Bucknell release. "Bucknell has distinguished itself among a very small group of (Division I) schools that have been able to win games in the NCAA Tournament and yet hold true to the ideal of the scholar-athlete."

Paulsen joins Catholic's Mike Lonergan (Vermont), UW-Plattevile's Bo Ryan (Wisconsin) and Rowan's John Giannini (La Salle) as former Division III national champion head coaches who are now head coaches at the Division I level.