Colorado College Men's Basketball

Jeff Conarroe, a 1999 graduate and three-year letter winner in basketball at Colorado College, was named head men’s basketball coach on May 23, 2020. He enters his sixth season at the helm of the Tigers with a career record of 51-70.  Conarroe came to CC from Division I California State University, Bakersfield, where he spent nine seasons on the coaching staff, the first eight as an assistant coach, before his promotion to associate head coach prior to the 2019-20 campaign.   Conarroe has progressed the CC program each year since his arrival, culminating in 2023-24 with the first winning season and appearance in the SCAC Championship Game since 2016. The 2024-25 season marked the first consecutive winning seasons in his tenure. CC went 14-13 and made it to the semifinals of the SCAC Tournament. Four Tigers were named All-SCAC selections, including junior Asher Nofziger, who was named to the Second Team.    In the 2023-24 season, the Tigers finished with a 16-12 record and earned the No. 4 seed at the SCAC Championships. They defeated the University of Dallas in the first round, then upset 10th-ranked and top-seeded Trinity, 71-70, in the semis. The season came to a close with an 83-76 loss to Centenary in the final.   Four Tigers earned all-conference honors last year, including returners Scott Ruegg, Edgar Romer and Asher Nofziger.   In 2022-23, CC finished 12-14 and was the No. 4 seed in the SCAC Tournament, its first appearance in the postseason since 2018.   Off the court, Conarroe has had an average of 14 players earn a spot on the SCAC Honor Roll and the squad has earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award each of the last three seasons.   During his tenure at CSUB, Conarroe helped head coach Rod Barnes rebuild the program and send the `Runners to their first-ever berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament in 2016 and three postseason appearances in the last four years, excluding the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season. On the court, the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons were the most memorable for the `Runners during Conarroe's tenure. He helped guide the team to a 49-19 record and a 26-2 mark in the Icardo Center during that span. In 2015-16, CSUB earned its spot in "March Madness" after winning the Western Athletic Conference tournament. The following season, the `Runners won the WAC regular-season championship and became the first-ever No. 8 seed to reach the NIT semifinals. CSUB also finished No. 9 in the mid-major Top 25 with the highest RPI in program history at 59. The `Runners were in the Top 10 of several defensive categories nationally, including a No. 1 ranking in transition defense and No. 2 ranking in defensive points per possession, while the team included its first-ever Defensive All-American selection (Jaylin Airington). The 2018-19 season featured CSUB's third trip to the postseason in the last four years as Bakersfield accepted an invitation to the CollegeInisder.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) and again proved to be a force on the road. CSUB won back-to-back games away from home before falling in the CIT quarterfinals. Conarroe was integral in the academic transformation of the CSUB men's basketball program, which graduated 30 players in seven years. During that period, the program also achieved a perfect APR score of 1000 and raised the team cumulative grade-point average above 2.7. As a reflection of their efforts in the classroom, eight `Runners earned academic all-conference honors during Conarroe's tenure. Before his stint at CSUB, Conarroe worked with Barnes as director of operations at Georgia State from 2007-11 and an administrative aide and graduate assistant at the University of Mississippi from 2003-06. After playing basketball for three years at Colorado College and receiving the team's Tiger Award for inspirational leadership, Conarroe graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics and served as an assistant coach at the school during the 1999-2000 season. Following a year away from the game, he spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Monarch High School in Louisville, Colo., before attending Ole Miss for graduate school. He earned his master's degree in business administration from Ole Miss in 2004. Conarroe's wife, the former Mary Everett, lettered three years in Division I soccer and four years in Division III lacrosse at Colorado College. She is third on the career scoring list for lacrosse with 252 points and led the Tigers to their first-ever NCAA playoff berth as an All-America selection as a senior in 1999. As a member of the soccer team, she collected 18 career goals and 45 points and, in 2011, became was the first female inducted into the Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame that played at both the Division I and III levels. The Conarroe's are the proud parents of two sons, Caleb and Cooper.

Colorado College men's basketball head coach Jeff Conarroe announced the hiring of Cam McKinney as CC's new assistant coach on June, 13th, 2025.    McKinney most recently served as the Assistant Director of Basketball Operations at Troy University in the Sun Belt Conference. Last season, the Trojans finished with a 23-11 record and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.   The Trojans also won the Sun Belt regular season title, and McKinney helped coach Tayton Conerway, who was named the conference Player of the Year.    His collegiate coaching career began at his alma mater, Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. McKinney was the assistant coach for the Rams for the 2022-23 season before becoming the head coach at Carrollwood Day School in Tampa, Florida.     As a player during the 2021-22 season, McKinney helped lead Cornell to a Midwest Conference championship and a berth in the Division III NCAA Tournament. The following season, the Rams advanced to the MWC Championship game and concluded the season with a 15-12 record.    McKinney joins Conarroe and assistant coach Derrick Rogers, who coached at Division 1 Cal Baptist and played in the West Coast Conference at the University of Portland; all three coaches at CC have experience at the Division 1 level.