St. Olaf College Men's Basketball

Dan Kosmoski is in his 32nd season as the head coach of the St. Olaf men's basketball program in 2025-26, making him the second longest-tenured coach at St. Olaf. Since taking over the program prior to the 1994-95 season, Kosmoski has amassed 395 victories, making him the winningest coach in program history by more than 100 wins. Kosmoski has led the Oles to all four of the program's NCAA Tournament appearances, with four appearances in a five-year span from 2014-18. Under Kosmoski, St. Olaf has qualified for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Playoffs 14 times, including 11 times in the tournament's last 15 seasons. The Oles have advanced to the semifinals of the MIAC Playoffs seven times in the last 12 editions of the tournament and won the six-team tournament in 2013-14 and 2015-16. In 2013-14, St. Olaf established a school record for wins in a season, finishing 22-6 overall, and won the program’s first-ever MIAC Playoffs title with wins over Gustavus and St. Thomas to earn its first-ever berth into the NCAA Tournament. The team’s 17-3 mark in MIAC play stands as a program record for conference victories in a season. Kosmoski was named the MIAC Coach of the Year and the D3hoops.com West Region Coach of the Year at the end of the season. The 2013-14 team’s school-record 22 wins was quickly broken by the 2014-15 team that finished 23-6 overall and 16-4 in the MIAC. After falling in the semifinals of the MIAC Playoffs, the Oles made their deepest-ever run in the NCAA Tournament by defeating Ohio Wesleyan and Defiance before bowing out to Marietta in the Sweet 16. The next season, St. Olaf won the MIAC Playoffs for the second time in three seasons, overcoming a four-point halftime deficit to defeat St. Thomas in St. Paul to qualify for its third-straight NCAA Tournament. After the Oles came back from 10 points down in the second half to defeat No. 17 North Central (Ill.) in the opening round, St. Olaf was edged, 63-61, by No. 7 St. Norbert in the second round. After a one-year absence, the Oles returned to the MIAC Playoffs and the NCAA Tournament in 2017-18, finishing the season 20-8 overall and 15-5 in the MIAC. Following a MIAC Playoff semifinal loss to Bethel, St. Olaf topped Sul Ross State, 88-75, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before falling by six points to No. 6 UW-Platteville in Platteville, Wis. The 2017-18 team was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Team of the Week on Feb. 6, 2018 after a 3-0 week that included a win over No. 4 Saint John’s, snapping the Johnnies’ 16-game winning streak. Prior to coming to St. Olaf, Kosmoski was an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota for nine seasons (1985-86 - 1993-94) under Jim Dutcher, Jimmy Williams and Clem Haskins. While with the Gophers, Kosmoski was on the coaching staff of teams that made the Sweet 16 (1988-89) and Elite 8 (1989-90), helping turn around a program that lost 19 Big Ten games in a row. In 1992-93, Minnesota won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). Before working at the University of Minnesota, Kosmoski spent five seasons as an assistant at Golden Valley Lutheran Junior College (1978-79, 1980-84), including two years under Flip Saunders. In his five seasons on staff, the program went 116-30 and, in 1981, was the state and regional champions and participated in the national tournament. In his playing days, Kosmoski was a standout at Owatonna High School, earning all-state honors in football, basketball and track & field, and was inducted into the Owatonna High School Hall of Fame in 1998. He went on to play at the University of Minnesota, where he played alongside lottery picks Mychal Thompson, Kevin McHale and Flip Saunders and was on the 1976-77 team that finished 24-3. Kosmoski has directed basketball camps for 40 years, connecting with over 30,000 youth, leading Clem Haskins’ camps for 14 years and his own Coach Koz Fundamental Basketball Camp for 20 years. He has also been part of four tours through Athletes in Action, traveling to Spain in 2003, Vilnius, Lithuania in 2009 and Wukulf, Poland in 2012 and 2014.   In February 2015, WCCO profiled Coach Kosmoski in an article titled "St. Olaf Coach Reflects on Life In Basketball."   THE OLES UNDER DAN KOSMOSKI SEASON OVERALL PCT. MIAC PCT. MIAC FINISH / MIAC PLAYOFFS / NCAA TOURNAMENT 1994-95 9-14 .391 7-13 .350 7th 1995-96 15-9 .625 11-9 .550 6th 1996-97 14-10 .583 12-8 .600 5th 1997-98 15-10 .600 13-7 .650 t-3rd / Semifinals of MIAC Playoffs 1998-99 12-12 .500 9-11 .450 7th 1999-00 3-21 .125 3-17 .150 11th 2000-01 7-17 .291 5-15 .250 9th 2001-02 9-16 .360 5-15 .250 8th 2002-03 15-11 .576 11-9 .550 5th / Quarterfinals of MIAC Playoffs 2003-04 10-15 .400 7-13 .350 7th 2004-05 7-18 .280 3-17 .150 11th 2005-06 10-15 .400 8-12 .333 7th 2006-07 13-14 .481 9-11 .450 6th / Quarterfinals of MIAC Playoffs 2007-08 12-13 .480 7-13 .350 7th 2008-09 10-15 .400 7-13 .350 9th 2009-10 10-15 .400 8-12 .333 8th 2010-11 17-9 .653 12-8 .600 4th / Quarterfinals of MIAC Playoffs 2011-12 16-10 .615 15-5 .750 3rd / Quarterfinals of MIAC Playoffs 2012-13 9-16 .360 8-12 .400 8th 2013-14 22-6 .785 17-3 .850 2nd / Champions of MIAC Playoffs / NCAA Tournament First Round 2014-15 23-6 .793 16-4 .800 2nd / Semifinals of MIAC Playoffs / NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 2015-16 19-10 .655 14-6 .700 2nd / Champions of MIAC Playoffs / NCAA Tournament Second Round 2016-17 11-14 .440 9-11 .450 t-7th 2017-18 20-8 .714 15-5 .750 2nd / Semifinals of MIAC Playoffs / NCAA Tournament Second Round 2018-19 13-13 .500 12-8 .600 5th / Quarterfinals of MIAC Playoffs 2019-20 13-14 .481 9-11 .450 6th / Semifinals of MIAC Playoffs 2020-21 2-2 .500 - - No postseason due to COVID-19 pandemic 2021-22 16-11 .593 11-9 .550 5th / Semifinals of MIAC Playoffs 2022-23 15-12 .556 10-10 .500 t-5th / Semifinals of MIAC Playoffs 2023-24 9-16 .360 8-12 .400 7th 2024-25 4-21 .160 3-13 .188 10th 2025-26 15-11 .571 11-5 .688 t-2nd TOTAL 395-404 .494 295-317 .482

Tom Langfeldt is in his 31st season as an assistant coach for the St. Olaf men's basketball program in 2025-26 after joining the staff in 1994. During Langfeldt's time with the program, the Oles have won over 300 games and have made four NCAA Tournament appearances (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). With Langfeldt on staff, St. Olaf has qualified for the MIAC Playoffs 13 times, including 10 times in the last 14 editions of the tournament, has advanced to the semifinals in seven of the last 11 years, and won the tournament in 2013-14 and 2015-16. Langfeldt has coached basketball for the last 45 seasons at various levels. A 1981 graduate of St. Olaf, Langfeldt was the assistant boys' coach at Northfield High School (1982-87) and the head girls' coach at Cannon Falls High School (1989-93). At the collegiate level, Langfeldt was the assistant women's coach at Carleton College from 1987-89. Langfeldt, who is in his 39th year of teaching at Cannon Falls High School, and his wife, Sherri, reside in Faribault. They have 10 children (eight of which they adopted), two sons-in-low, and two granddaughters.  

Matt Eppen is in the seventh season of his second stint (ninth season overall) as an assistant coach for the St. Olaf men's basketball program in 2025-26. St. Olaf has qualified for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MICA) Playoffs in four of the last six seasons the tournament was held since Eppen returned to the coaching staff. Eppen previously worked on head coach Dan Kosmoski's staff during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons and recruited several student-athletes who went on to play on St. Olaf's teams that earned MIAC Playoff titles and played in the NCAA Tournament. A Gustavus Adolphus College graduate, Eppen played baseball for the Gusties while studying social studies education. His first teaching job was at New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva (NRHEG) school district, where he taught from 1996-2007 and was an assistant boys basketball coach from 1996-98 under Hall of Fame coach Ted Pelzl. Eppen served as the head boys basketball coach at NRHEG from 1998-2007 at NRHEG and consistently coached teams that competed for conference and section titles. In 2007-08, he served as the assistant girls basketball coach at Burnsville before joining Kosmoski's staff at St. Olaf for two seasons. He later transitioned to being the Burnsville head boys basketball coach from 2010-18. He spent 2018 as an assistant coach for the boys program at Eden Prairie, helping lead the Eagles to a consolation championship at the state tournament. Eppen continues teaching at Burnsville High School and resides in Rosemount with his wife, Amy, and their daughters, Avery and Natalie.

Tony Taylor is in the fifth season of his second stint – 13th season overall – as an assistant coach for the St. Olaf men’s basketball program in 2025-26. He serves as the program's recruiting and video coordinator and also assists with game and practice planning. Taylor returned to head coach Dan Kosmoski’s coaching staff for the 2021-22 season after spending the previous year as the head varsity boys’ basketball coach at New Life Academy in Woodbury. The program produced two all-conference players, one honorable mention all-conference player, and five academic all-conference players. As a member of Kosmoski’s staff from 2011-12 until 2018-19, Taylor helped guide the Oles to a record of 133-83 (.616) and four NCAA Tournament appearances, including the program’s first-ever berth in 2013-14 and a run to the Sweet 16 – the deepest run in program history – in 2014-15. St. Olaf also won MIAC Playoff titles in both 2013-14 and 2015-16 and finished in the top two of the conference standings four times in Taylor’s last six seasons on staff during his first stint on the Hill. The Oles appeared in the MIAC Playoffs six of his eight years on staff. Prior to coming to St. Olaf, Taylor was the head boys’ basketball coach at Windom Area High School for two seasons. He led Windom to its first state tournament appearance in 2010 and was named the Class 3AA Coach of the Year. Prior to that, Taylor was an assistant at Southwest High School in Minneapolis for three seasons. During his playing days, Taylor played for Tim Miles at NCAA Division II Southwest Minnesota State University before transferring to Gustavus Adolphus College. He scored 1,853 points in his career at Martin County West High School, where he helped lead the team to its first-ever state tournament appearance, was an all-state selection, and set what was then a state record for most consecutive free throws made (55). He played his high school basketball for his father, Randy Taylor, who is in the Minnesota Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame. A graduate of Gustavus, Taylor and his wife, Mehtab, have one daughter, Ruby.