After a national search, Clarkson has named Mark Gilbride head coach. He replaces Adam Stockwell, who departed after five years at Clarkson and a 52- 77 record to take over the head coaching job at Oswego State.

Gilbride spent the past season at Yale where he helped guide the Bulldogs to a second place finish in the Ivy League. Gilbride previously served as an assistant coach at Division II Stonehill. In his one season as an assistant at Amherst in 2006-07, he aided the Lord Jeffs in recording a 30-2 record en route to the Division III national championship.

&&f-boxl&&A 2002 graduate of Bowdoin with a degree in economics, Gilbride played with the Polar Bears before starting his coaching career as an assistant there. Gilbride spent three seasons as the first assistant and recruiting coordinator at Bowdoin where he helped recruit a class that broke the school record for wins (22-7). As a player, Gilbride was a team captain and starting point guard for the squad, leading the team in assists for three years in a row, and ranking seventh all-time in assists per game at Bowdoin.

"Mark has worked at some notable institutions, from his alma mater Bowdoin, one of the finest Division III schools in the northeast, to one of the great academic and historic universities in the country, Yale,� Clarkson athletic director Steve Yianoukos said. �I think that his time at those quality institutions has well prepared him for this position. I look forward to Mark taking over the Clarkson University men�s basketball program, and we fully expect that he will take the team to the next level after several fine seasons under former coach Adam Stockwell."

"I am thrilled to coach at Clarkson, a school with such strong academic and athletic tradition," Gilbride said. "Coach Stockwell has laid the groundwork for a strong basketball program. Now we will build on that foundation to create a team that can compete at the highest level of Division III basketball."

Mark Gilbride comes from a coaching family, as his father, Tim, has served as the head men's basketball coach at Bowdoin for the past 24 seasons, accumulating 337 wins and three NCAA Tournament appearances. His uncle, Kevin, has been an assistant coach in the NFL since 1989 and was the head coach for the San Diego Chargers in the late-1990s. He currently serves as the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants.