Patrick Jonathan Beilein (born March 23, 1983) is an American former

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player and current coach. He is the head coach of the Baldwinsville Bees boys varsity basketball team in Baldwinsville NY. Beilein has served as an American

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coach and is the former men's

head coach at

Niagara University Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and has 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. Appro ...

. He has previously served as an assistant coach for the

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of the

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and

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as well as the head coach at

West Virginia Wesleyan College West Virginia Wesleyan College is a private college in Buckhannon, West Virginia. It has an enrollment of about 1,400 students from 35 U.S. states and 26 countries. The school was founded in 1890 by the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist E ...

and

Le Moyne College Le Moyne College is a private Jesuit college in DeWitt, New York.http://www.ongov.net/planning/haz/documents/Section9.7-TownofDeWitt.pdf It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1946 and named after Jesuit missionary Simon Le Moyne. At its fo ...

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. He is the son of

John Beilein John Patrick Beilein ( ; born February 5, 1953) is an American professional basketball coach who currently serves as the Senior Player Development Advisor for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Before being hired b ...

and has served on his father's coaching staff at

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. He played for his father

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where he tallied a total of 1001 career points. He earned

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Coach of the Year in 2017. In 2018, he became the first coach to lead his team to back-to-back NCAA Division II Tournament number one seeds in ten seasons and repeated as Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year. On October 24, 2019, Niagara announced that Beilein would resign as head coach of the men's basketball program after just seven months and before coaching his first game, citing personal reasons.

Early life

Beilein, who was born in

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, is the second child and oldest of three sons of

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and Kathleen Beilein. He was born on March 23, 1983, which he says was the day before his father began a nine-year stint at Le Moyne as

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. He is an alumnus of Benedictine High School in

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Playing career

Beilein initially committed to play for his father's 2002 recruiting class at

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along with

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and J. D. Collins, but the class went along with coach Beilein to

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when he got that job. Beilein played 128 games for the West Virginia from 2002 to 2006, scoring 1001 points. He was part of West Virginia teams that reached the elite eight and sweet sixteen rounds of the

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and

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. A roommate of

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, Beilein was the

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for the 2006 team and for a time (as he vied with

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) held the school record for career three point shots made. He served as

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as a senior. He graduated from

with 242

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s made and a

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in athletic coaching education. He played for the

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in the 2006

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. He then played for

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in the

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in 2006 and then

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in the Ireland SuperLeague in 2007–08.

Coaching career

Beilein served as a graduate assistant for the 2008–09 and 2009–10

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s. While a graduate assistant at Michigan, he pursued a graduate degree at the

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. He then served as an assistant coach to Paul Cormier for the , as the director of basketball operations for the , and as the head men's basketball coach at

West Virginia Wesleyan College from 2012 to 2014. The position at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV was just an hour from

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, where Beilein had played collegiately for his father. He succeeded Jim Boone at West Virginia Wesleyan. At West Virginia Wesleyan the team improved from 12–15 during his first season to 20–12 in his second year. Beilein interviewed for the

head coaching job at Marist before becoming a player development coach for the 2014–15 Utah Jazz under

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. Beilein became the head coach at Division II Le Moyne in 2015. At Le Moyne, his first game was a 2015 exhibition matchup against his father's

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that was attended by 70 relatives. The 15 head coaches in the Northeast-10 Conference, elected Beilein as the 2016–17 conference Coach of the Year. That season, he led Le Moyne to the number 1 seed and the host in the NCAA Division II East Regional. The team was upset in overtime by Merrimack College. In 2018, Le Moyne went on a 12-game win streak, their second longest in program history. The team went on to earn the Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division's top seed in the 2018 Northeast-10 Conference tournament. They won the 2018 Northeast-10 Conference tournament. They earned a number one seed in the NCAA Division II East Regional, marking the first time an NCAA DII school has hosted an NCAA regional as a number one seed in consecutive seasons since

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in 2007 and 2008. He repeated as Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year. Le Moyne's March 10 victory over

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established many records and firsts: It marked the team's 25th win of the season, which surpassed the 24-win mark established in 1988 (by his father's team) and tied in 1996; It marked the school's 1000th victory; It marked Le Moyne's first NCAA tournament opening round victory since a 1964 win over

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and the school's first NCAA tournament victory since a 1988 consolation game victory over

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. The school's March 11 victory over

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earned the school its first NCAA tournament regional championship game birth, which they won. The 24th ranked Le Moyne Dolphins lost to 11th ranked West Texas A&M University on March 20 in the Division II quarterfinals, finishing the season with a school-record 27 wins against 7 losses. In March 2019, Beilein was hired as head coach for the

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. However, on October 24, 2019, just weeks before the beginning of the season, Beilein resigned for "personal reasons", with assistant coach and former Duke standout

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named as his replacement on an interim basis. On September 1, 2021, the

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named him as the new head coach of the team.

Personal

Beilein has two younger brothers, Mark and Andrew, and an elder sister, Seana Hendricks.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Le Moyne profile

West Virginia stats
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beilein, Patrick 1983 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Belgium American expatriate basketball people in Ireland American men's basketball coaches American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from New York (state) Basketball players from New York (state) College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball coaches Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies alumni Landstede Hammers players Le Moyne Dolphins men's basketball coaches Utah Jazz assistant coaches West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball players West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats basketball coaches