University of Mary Washington Men's Basketball

Highly successful head coach Marcus Kahn begins his 13th season as head men’s basketball coach at the University of Mary Washington. Kahn has brought the Eagles to the pinnacle of college basketball, coaching the team to the 2026 NCAA Division III national championship. Kahn led the 2025-26 team to a 30-3 record, along the way gaining NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year accolades from D3Hoops.com, and won the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year award. He won his 400th career game in a January win over Regent. He also gained Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after the Eagles claimed their second straight league title. Kahn has brought the program to national prominence, having taken to the Eagles to the NCAA Tournament second round in 2023 and the sweet 16 in 2025 before last season's national title. He has continued to gain success with the Eagle program. In 2018-19, he captured his 300th career victory, and saw freshman Greg Rowson claim CAC Rookie of the Year honors as the Eagles captured 18 wins on the year and were regionally ranked throughout the season. The Eagles advanced to the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference championship in 2022 and 2023, when they advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Last season, Kahn led the young Eagles to the C2C Championship and sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Kahn owned a 153-27 record in six seasons at Cabrini College, including five consecutive Colonial States Athletic Conference championships and NCAA Tournament appearances, including a run to the NCAA Championship game in 2011-12. His mark of 131-19 over those five years was the best record in all of NCAA Division III. “Marcus and I have been to each other’s practices and I have nothing but the highest of praise for him”, said longtime Penn and current Temple head coach Fran Dunphy. “He is a quality individual, a consummate professional, and the kind of person I’d want coaching my team.  What a great hire!” Kahn led Cabrini to a 26-2 overall mark in 2014, standing as the last undefeated team in the nation until February 15, and closing the year ranked ninth in the nation. Cabrini finished 25-6 and a No. 13 final ranking in 2012-13, as the team appeared in its second consecutive NCAA Tournament Elite Eight game Kahn led the Cavaliers on a magical run in 2011-12 posting the nation's best record of 31-2.  After suffering a two point overtime loss to end 2011, Cabrini won 22 consecutive games leading to the National Championship game in Salem, Va, the school's first appearance in a national championship game. Kahn was named Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year by D3hoops.com and the National Association of Basketball Coaches, as well as a finalist for the prestigious Glen Robinson Division III and John McLendon National Coach of the Year honors.    The Cavaliers finished the 2010-11 campaign 24-6 and Kahn was named CSAC Coach of the Year for the third consecutive season.  Kahn also named NABC Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. In 2009-10, Kahn guided the Cavaliers to the CSAC title and the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2001-02 campaign. Cabrini won a then school-record 25 games overall and spent four weeks in the D3Hoops.com Top 25. In his first year at Cabrini, Kahn led the Cavaliers to 22 overall victories, then the program's highest win total since the 1995-96 campaign. Cabrini returned to championship game of the CSAC Tournament for the first time in seven years. Prior to joining the Cavaliers, Kahn spent six seasons as the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh - Greensburg. With the Bobcats, Kahn became the program’s all-time leader in career victories (77), recruited two Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Newcomers of the Year (2005-06, 2007-08) and guided UPG to its first postseason appearance since the 1999-2000 season.  Kahn mentored Pitt-Greensburg to two AMCC championship games (2005-07) and claimed the conference’s regular season crown in 2004-05, the first in program history. In his first season in 2002-03, he led the Bobcats to a 14-12 overall record and trip to the conference tournament. Kahn inherited a team that had won just 10 games combined during the 2000-01 and 2001-02 campaigns. In 2005-06, Kahn led UPG to a second-place finish in the AMCC Tournament and the ECAC championship game. At the conclusion of the 2007-08 season, Kahn had coached the Bobcats to its fifth appearance in the conference tournament in six seasons. Kahn owns a wealth of Division III coaching experience, beginning as an assistant at Wesley College in Dover, Del. (1998-2000).  During the 2000-01 season, Kahn served as an assistant coach at Albright College in Reading, Pa., directing the program’s academic, recruiting and film exchange operations.  He spent a season as the top assistant at Division II Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W. Va. in 2001-02. With the Rams, Kahn served as the academic, recruiting and scouting/film exchange coordinator. Kahn’s coaching career began as an assistant in 1997-98 with NAIA Division II Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. Kahn’s campus presence has reached beyond the hardwood throughout his sideline tenure, spending seven years in the classroom as a professor. He instructed a physical education and recreation course at Shepherd (2001-02) and a freshman seminar class at Pitt-Greensburg (2002-2008). Kahn earned a bachelor of arts degree in education from the University of Redlands in 1997 and a master’s degree in education from Wesley in 2000. He has been a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) since 1999. Coach Kahn Year by Year 2002-03 Pitt.-Greensburg 14-12 2003-04 Pitt.-Greensburg 2004-05 Pitt.-Greensburg 2005-06 Pitt.-Greensburg 2006-07 Pitt.-Greensburg 2007-08 Pitt.-Greensburg 2008-09 Cabrini 22-8 ECAC Tournament Finals 2009-10 Cabrini 25-3 NCAA Tournament 1st Round 2010-11 Cabrini 24-6 NCAA Tournament 3rd Round 2011-12 Cabrini 31-2 NCAA Tournament National Finals 2012-13 Cabrini 25-6 NCAA Tournament Final Four 2013-14 Cabrini 26-2 NCAA Tournament 2nd Round 2014-15 UMW 8-19 CAC Tournament Semifinals 2015-16 UMW 15-12 CAC Tournament Semifinals 2016-17 UMW 12-13 2017-18 UMW 19-8 CAC Tournament Semifinals 2018-19 UMW 18-9 CAC Tournament Semifinals 2019-20 UMW 16-11 CAC Tournament Semifinals 2020-21 UMW --- No season - COVID-19 2021-22 UMW 16-9 C2C Tournament Final 2022-23 UMW 20-9 C2C Finals; NCAA Tournament 2nd Rd. 2023-24 UMW 17-10 C2C Tournament Final   2024-25     UMW 15-15 C2C Champions; NCAA Tournament 3rd Rd. 2025-26 UMW 30-3 NCAA Division III National Champions Career  416-228

Sansone begins his third season with the UMW men's basketball program as assistant coach. In two years with the Eagles, Sansone has been instrumental in recruiting several outstanding players, and his assistance in all areas lead to success for UMW. Sansone graduated from Roanoke College in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sport management. After coaching one year at Fredericksburg Christian School, he became a graduate assistant coach at Eastern University in Philadelphia, Pa. In two seasons at Eastern, Sansone assisted as recruiting coordinator, as well as with scheduling of on-campus visits & home visits, scouting reports, film exchange, team travel and logistics, game planning and practice planning, monitoring the academic progress of student-athletes, and working with the backcourt. He has also worked a series of high-level summer camps over the past six years. Mark is single and lives in Fredericksburg.