Piedmont College Men's Basketball

Greg Neeley enters his 11th season as Head Men's Basketball Coach at Piedmont University in the fall of 2023 and he is currently the winningest coach in Piedmont's NCAA history. During his time in Demorest, Neeley has guided 13 USA South all-conference selections including Jordan Foote who posted a breakout season in 2019-20 earning first team all-conference honors with 11 double doubles and a career-best 40 point performance.  In Piedmont's first season competing in the newly formed Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS), Piedmont posted a 5-7 record and advanced to the CCS Tournament Semifinals after a thrilling comeback 86-80 double overtime win at Berea. Individually, Ryan Jolly returned from injury to lead the conference in assists while also pacing the Lions in scoring and earning an All-CCS First Team selection. After the 2020-21 campaign, Foote became the first under Neeley's tenure to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors while newcomer Ryan Jolly parlayed a breakout debut season into a spot on the D3hoops All-South Region team. Justin Vallejo marked the first "of the year" award winner under Neeley after he took the conference by storm in his debut season earning USA South Rookie of the Year honors in 2014-15. That season also marked one of the biggest wins in program history for the Lions as they knocked off #6 Emory University inside Cave Arena for the first win over a top-10 at home.  Piedmont continued its winning ways in 2020-21 posting an 11-7 overall record an a 7-3 mark in USA South play The Lions were clutch in crunch time, delivering a a 3-0 record in overtime games including an 85-82 triumph at LaGrange to advance them to the USA South West Division Championship. The Lions finished the 2019-20 season with a 14-12 record going 9-9 in conference play. Piedmont earned the #3 seed in the USA South Tournament dropping a road contest in the opening round at Huntingdon.  The 2017-18 season was the second 15-11 mark the Lions have posted in Neeley's career with Piedmont while the 10 conference wins were its most in five seasons competing in the USA South. That season also marked the third-straight trip to the USA South Tournament for the Lions. His team has also continued to get it done in the classroom with a total of 24 players making the NABC Honors Court while the team has earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award each season. That mark of seven-straight NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards is the longest streak in the USA South.  Neeley took over a mens basketball program coming off a season that saw the Lions compete in just seven games as Piedmont was forced to cancel the remainder of the 2012-13 season. Despite the unsuccessful end to the season prior to Neeleys arrival, his turnaround of the mens basketball program at Piedmont became crystal clear. Neeley's success at the helm was already evident following his season at Warren Wilson College where he led the Owls to the program's first-ever United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) National Championship. The Owls posted a 19-10 overall record in 2012-13 including winning 12-straight games to end the season despite playing the fifth toughest schedule in the country.  Prior to taking over at Warren Wilson, Neeley served as the Head Coach at Ancilla College in his home state of Indiana, a member school of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).  While heading up the mens basketball program at Ancilla, Neeley led the Chargers to the NJCAA District 8 Tournament in just his second year at the helm.

Justin Hoshauer joined Piedmont as assistant men's basketball coach over the summer of 2024. He joined the Piedmont staff following two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Messiah University in Pennsylvania.  While on staff at Messiah, Hoshauer oversaw individual skill workouts, film sessions and position specific drills as the head of player development, while also maintaining roles as head of operations and head of scouting.  On the operations side, Hoshauer managed the program's travel, equipment and fundraising efforts while also being in charge of film breakdowns and scouting reports as head of scouting. While in college at Grove City, he served as a student assistant and JV student-athlete helping to lead individual skill sessions, assist with practice preparation and helped with film breakdown/statistical research.  Hoshauer also has experience coaching at the high school level as he returned to his alma mater at Covenant Classical School in Fort Worth, Texas where he served as a men's basketball assistant (2019) and summer strength and conditioning coach (2020, 2022). He has experience across a myriad of basketball camps and Elite/ID camps including EXACT basketball camps (2023), and both the men's and women's basketball camps at Messiah. Hoshauer earned his bachelor of science in management with a concentration in sports management from Grove City College in 2022. He completed his master's degree in intercollegiate athletic leadership from Messiah University in 2024.