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Andy Yosinoff
Andy Yosinoff
  • Title:
    Head Women's Basketball Coach
  • Phone:
    617-975-9305
  • Email:
    yosinoff@emmanuel.edu
  • Previous College:
    University of Rhode Island ('70)
  • Experience:
    47th season

Bio

Andrew Yosinoff is in his 46th season as Head Coach of the Women's Basketball Team at Emmanuel College (MA). He was also the Director of Athletics at Emmanuel for 17 years and currently serves as an Associate AD as well as the Department's Business Manager and Athletic Alumni Development Liaison. 

The coaching legend joined the illustrious 900-win club in 2023, becoming just the 10th NCAA women's basketball coach to hit the mark. Win 900 came in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Semifinals on the road vs. top-seeded Albertus Magnus College in EC's 66-55 victory. In 2022-23, he also recorded his 27th season with 20+ victories to become the NCAA Division III record-holder in the category. The Rhode Island native now ranks third all-time among active coaches in victories, only behind fellow legends Geno Auriemma (UConn) and Tara VanDerveer (Stanford).

Yosinoff was named the 2022 GNAC Women's Basketball Coach of the Year after guiding the Saints to a 25-2 overall record including a 16-0 mark in GNAC action. He moved into the Top-10 all-time for NCAA Women's Basketball head coaching victories and was a finalist for the 2022 Red Auerbach National Coach of the Year, presented by the Jewish Coaches Association.

During the 2019-20 season, Coach Yosinoff added to the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball record for coaching victories when he tallied his 850th career win becoming the 12th NCAA women's basketball coach to reach the milestone. He's one of six active WBB coaches with 850 wins and the first D-III women's coach to hit the mark. Yosinoff and the Saints went on to claim the 2020 GNAC Championship with a 67-50 win over Saint Joseph's College (ME) to advance to the program's 20th NCAA tournament under Coach Yosinoff's guidance. 

In the 1970s, under Coach Yosinoff, Emmanuel became the first women's college basketball team to be ranked nationally as well as in the top 5 in New England. In the 2000-2001 season, he led the Emmanuel Saints to its first trip to the NCAA Final Four -- making him the first coach in Boston to make the basketball Final Four, in any category (men's or women's, Division I, II or III). Under Coach Yosinoff's direction, the team posted a school record 28-4 season, became GNAC regular season and tournament champions, NCAA Northeast/East Sectional Champions, NCAA Northeast/East Regional Champions, and NCAA Final Four Semi-Finalists. The Saints were also voted ECAC Division III Team of the Year. Coach Yosinoff's peers named him GNAC 2000-2001 Women's Basketball Coach of the Year.

Between 2000-06, the Saints went undefeated in the GNAC winning 72-straight regular-season conference games. Then from 2010-16, EC would string together a 68-game regular-season GNAC winning streak under Yosinoff. These are two of the longest Division III regular season conference winning streaks to date. During the 2006-2007 season, Andy coached the Saints to an NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance with an overall record of 29-2 and an undefeated conference record of 12-0. The Saints defeated Salve Regina and Brandeis University in the NCAA Tournament and eventually fell to the 2007 National Champion, DePauw University. The Saints' 29 wins ranked Emmanuel as the top team in number of victories among all Division III programs that season.

In 2013, Yosinoff captured his 700th career coaching victory to become just the third Division III Women's Basketball coach to accomplish the milestone. He became the first Division III coach to accomplish the feat in New England and just the third overall to join the ranks of Geno Auriemma of UConn (D-I) and Barbara Stevens of Bentley (D-II) with 700+ wins in New England. The milestone would propel the Saints to their 15th GNAC title and another appearance in the NCAA tournament.

During the 2011-12 campaign, Yosinoff led the Saints with a deep run in the NCAA tourney, capturing the GNAC title with a perfect 13-0 mark in the GNAC. Emmanuel would go on to advance to the NCAA Elite Eight round, registering tournament victories over Hartwick College, Rhode Island College and King's College (Pa.) before falling to the #1 ranked team in the country, Amherst. For his guidance, Yosinoff was named the 2012 D3Hoops.com Division III Northeast Coach of the Year and was also honored by the Jewish Coaches Association as the 2012 recipient of the Red Auerbach Award presented to college basketball's Jewish Coach of the Year.

Andy

Since 2000, Coach Yosinoff's teams have compiled of 510 wins, averaging over 23 wins a year during the stretch while putting together a streak of 14 consecutive 20+ win seasons from 1999 to 2013. In October of 2003, Coach Yosinoff was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in Kingston, Rhode Island. Coach Yosinoff was among the second class of Hall of Fame inductees. In 2005, Andy was selected to be the USA Maccabiah Open Head Women's Basketball Coach. He coached the USA National Team to its first-ever gold medal in the 2005 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Yosinoff also ranks 2nd among NCAA Division III coaches in all-time victories. In 2010, Yosinoff was a part of the inaugural class of inductees to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference's Hall of Fame. Following the 2010-11 season, Yosinoff was selected as the Red Auerbach National Coach of the Year, presented by the Jewish Coaches Association.

A 1970 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education; he also earned his Master's degree in physical education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. As a senior, Andy held the #1 singles position on the men's varsity tennis team and won the Yankee Conference Tennis Championship. He was inducted into the URI Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2013. He is also a member of the United States Professional Tennis Association.

As head coach, he has taken the Saints women's basketball program on a historic trip to China in 2008, as well as to Ireland, California, St. Croix, Florida, Las Vegas, Nev., Washington, D.C., St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, and London for tournament appearances.

CAREER RECORD

YEAR SCHOOL OVERALL GNAC WIN %  NOTES
1977-78 Emmanuel 3-7    .300  *Blizzard of '78 cancelled several games
1978-79 Emmanuel 12-4    .750  
1979-80 Emmanuel 12-7    .632  
1980-81 Emmanuel 15-6    .714  
1981-82 Emmanuel 19-6    .760  
1982-83 Emmanuel 14-12    .539  
1983-84 Emmanuel 18-6    .750  
1984-85 Emmanuel 19-7    .731 MAIAW Champions
1985-86 Emmanuel 18-4    .818 NCAA Tournament
1986-87 Emmanuel 22-2    .917 NCAA Tournament
1987-88 Emmanuel 20-2    .909 NCAA Tournament
1988-89 Emmanuel 13-11    .542 ECAC Tournament
1989-90 Emmanuel 20-6    .769 ECAC Finalist
1990-91 Emmanuel 24-4    .857 ECAC Finalist 
1991-92 Emmanuel 20-5    .800 NCAA Tournament
1992-93 Emmanuel 18-7    .720 ECAC Tournament, NEWAC Champions
1993-94 Emmanuel 17-10    .630 NEWAC Champions
1994-95 Emmanuel 15-12    .556  
1995-96 Emmanuel 22-5 10-0  .815 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
1996-97 Emmanuel 22-7 10-0  .759 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
1997-98 Emmanuel 12-14 8-2  .462 /.800 ECAC Tournament
1998-99 Emmanuel 16-11 10-0  .593 / 1.000 GNAC Champions, ECAC Tournament
1999-00 Emmanuel 19-8 10-2  .704 / .833  
2000-01 Emmanuel 28-4 12-0  .875 / 1.000 NCAA Final Four, GNAC Champions
2001-02 Emmanuel 27-3 12-0  .900 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2002-03 Emmanuel 26-4 12-0  .867 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2003-04 Emmanuel 24-5 12-0  .828 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2004-05 Emmanuel 27-3 12-0  .900 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2005-06 Emmanuel 23-8 11-1  .742 /.917 GNAC Championship Appearance, ECAC Tournament Finalist
2006-07 Emmanuel 29-2 11-0  .936 / 1.000 NCAA Sweet Sixteen, GNAC Champions
2007-08 Emmanuel 22-7 12-1  .759 / .923 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2008-09 Emmanuel 22-8 11-1  .737 / .917 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2009-10 Emmanuel 22-6 9-2  .786 / .818 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2010-11 Emmanuel 21-8 12-0  .724 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2011-12 Emmanuel 25-7 13-0  .781 / 1.000 NCAA Elite Eight, GNAC Champions
2012-13 Emmanuel 23-6 12-0  .793 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament, GNAC Champions
2013-14 Emmanuel 19-8 11-0  .704 / 1.000 ECAC Tournament
2014-15 Emmanuel 19-11 11-0  .633 / 1.000 GNAC Championship Appearance, ECAC Tournament
2015-16 Emmanuel 21-7 10-1  .750 /.909 GNAC Championship Appearance 
2016-17 Emmanuel 20-8 14-2  .714 /.875 GNAC Championship Appearance 
2017-18 Emmanuel 20-7 15-1  .741 /.938 GNAC Championship Appearance 
2018-19 Emmanuel 24-6 11-1  .800 /.917 NCAA Tournament 2nd round, GNAC Champions
2019-20 Emmanuel 21-8 9-2  .724 /.818 NCAA Tournament 1st round, GNAC Champions
2020-21 Emmanuel 0-0 0-0 N/A *Season cancelled due to COVID
2021-22 Emmanuel 25-2 16-0  .926 / 1.000 NCAA Tournament 1st round, GNAC Champions
2022-23 Emmanuel 22-6 15-2  .786 / .882 GNAC Championship Appearance
  TOTALS 900-297 311-18  .752 /.945  21 NCAA Tournament Appearances, 18 GNAC Championships


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Last updated March 23, 2023 - 7:15 PM)