Eric Brennan, Ed.D., enters his third season as Rowan's head men's basketball coach in 2025-26, while entering his eighth overall year working with the Profs.
Brennan was officially appointed the head men’s basketball coach at Rowan University in June 2024 after serving as the interim head coach for the 2023-24 season. In two years, he has guided the Profs to a 33-22 record, and a 22-14 mark in NJAC play.
In his first campaign guiding the Profs in 2023-24, Rowan went 21-8 overall and reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the seocnd year in a row. The Profs earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, and won the first two games before acing top-ranked Hampden-Sydney in the third round. In NJAC play, Brennan guided the squad to a 13-5 conference record and its second straight regular-season title. He and his assistant coaches were named the 2024 NJAC John K. Adams Coaching Staff of the Year.
Brennan was named interim head coach in 2023 after serving as an assistant coach for five years on the Rowan staff. In the four seasons of competition (2020-21 was canceled due to pandemic), Rowan compiled an 84-31 record, won two conference championships and made three NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2022-23, Rowan won the NJAC title and reached the NCAA Sweet 16, marking the furthest advancement in the tournament since 1997-98, while ending the year ranked 17th nationally.
He started his coaching career at Philadelphia University (now Jefferson) under Hall of Fame coach Herb Magee, where the Rams won three conference titles and participated in the NCAA Tournament four times.
Brennan's collegiate playing career included two years at Kutztown University (2010-12) where he was a two-time All-PSAC selection and was named the team's MVP in 2012. He began his career playing for Lock Haven University and was also an All-Conference selection there. Upon graduation, he played professionally in Finland for a season.
Prior to taking on the head coaching role, Brennan was the assistant director of admissions at Rowan Global and then became the director of graduate and online admissions in 2023.
A 2012 graduate of Kutztown University, Brennan earned an MBA from Gwynedd Mercy University in 2018 and received his doctorate in higher education from Rowan in May 2024.
He and his wife, Jessica, have a young son, Silas.
