Babson College Men's Basketball

The most decorated player in program history, Joey Flannery '17 is in his second as associate head coach for the Babson College men's basketball program in 2025-26.  Flannery returned to Babson in 2024 after spending six seasons on the men's basketball staff at Villanova University. After originally joining the Wildcats as a graduate manager in 2018, he was named Assistant Director of Basketball Operations in 2021 and was elevated to the Director of Operations following the retirement of legendary head coach Jay Wright in 2022.    Flannery helped Villanova capture three Big East regular season (2019, 2020, 2021) titles and a pair of conference tournament championships (2019, 2022) while making three NCAA Tournament appearances. The Wildcats reached the second round in 2019 and advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2021 before going 30-8 and making a run to the Final Four in 2022.    During his six years on staff, Flannery helped develop NBA players Saddiq Bey, Jermaine Samuels, Collin Gillespie, Eric Paschall and others.     The former Beaver all-star was a two-time National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division III Player of the Year and capped his career by earning D3hoops.com Player of the Year honors in 2017. He garnered NABC and D3hoops.com Northeast Region Player of the Year accolades in 2015, 2016 and 2017, and graduated as the Beavers' only three-time All-America selection.   Flannery averaged 22.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 119 career games. He ranks first in Babson history and ninth in Division III history with 2,620 points, and also set program records for made field goals (863) and made free throws (689). Additionally, Flannery is fourth in career three-pointers (205), seventh in rebounds (779) and blocked shots (64), and tied for seventh all-time in assists (296). After becoming the first Babson player to earn D3hoops.com Northeast Region Rookie of the Year honors in 2014, Flannery helped the Green and White advance to the Division III Final Four for the first time in school history in 2015. The Beavers repeated as NEWMAC champions on the way to reaching the Sweet 16 in 2016 before putting together a historic 2016-17 campaign that culminated with the program's first national championship.   Flannery scored a single-season school record 750 points as a senior and averaged 27.8 points over six NCAA Tournament games on his way to earning Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors. The Beavers overcame a 25-point deficit against then-No. 1 Whitman in the national semifinals and Flannery came up with a game-saving blocked shot to preserve a 79-78 victory over Augustana (Ill.) in the national title game.   Following graduation, Flannery traveled to Los Angeles for a pre-draft workout with the Los Angeles Clippers before signing with Real Murcia in the Spanish third division for the 2017-18 season. 

Brian Geitner joined the Babson College men’s basketball program as an coach in October 2025.  A 2024 graduate of Western New England, Geitner comes to Babson after wrapping up a standout career for the Golden Bears last winter. He started 94 of his 115 career games and ranks 11th on the program’s all-time scoring list with 1,362 points.  After averaging 13.5 points in his first full season following the pandemic in 2021-22, Geitner put up 12.7 points and a career-high 2.9 assists to go along with a career-best 60 three-pointers on the way to earning all-league accolades in 2023. He contributed 9.5 points as a senior in 2024 and returned as a graduate student last winter starting all 30 games and averaging 12.9 points and 2.9 boards while helping Western New England to its best season in school history.  The Golden Bears went 23-7 and captured the program’s first Conference of New England (CNE) Tournament title before making a historic run to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Western New England defeated Hamilton in the opening round for its first NCAA Tournament victory and then knocked off Montclair State in the second round before falling to eventual national champion Trinity in the sectional semifinals.  Geitner, who was a two-year captain for the Golden Bears, is currently pursuing his MBA.