Jesse DeLoof enters his first year as head coach of the Guilford College men's basketball program in 2025-26, after being hired in June of 2025.
DeLoof comes to Guilford at the end of a five-year run heading his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Overtaking a team that won just a single game in 2019-20, prior to the pandemic, DeLoof transformed the Panthers program, increasing their win total in each of his four campaigns at the helm, securing a winning record for the first time in a decade in 2024 before their big breakthrough in 2025. The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Regular Season and Tournament Champions for the first time since 2003, Pitt-Bradford set the program-record for wins in a season going 24-4 overall and 14-2 in league play. The Panthers poured in 103.1 points per game in 2025, the third-most in the nation, while they also ranked third in steals with 14.1 per contest, achieving that with a plus-8.0 turnover margin. For his work, DeLoof was the AMCC Coach of the Year, D3Hoops.com Region 7 Coach of the Year, and a finalist for Hoop Dirt’s National Coach of the Year honor. Making the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 22 years, the Panthers secured their first victory in program history in the dance, besting The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) before falling to opening weekend host, Hampden-Sydney College. During his time at Pitt-Bradford, DeLoof recruited, coached, and developed the 2025 AMCC Player of the Year, the 2023 AMCC Newcomer of the Year, a pair of 1,000-point scorers, one All-Region player, and six All-AMCC honorees.
Prior to his time as head coach of the Panthers, DeLoof got his first head coaching experience at Youngsville High School in Pennsylvania, seeing a similar trajectory as he would experience in the college ranks, lifting a two-win squad to 20 victories in a span of just two seasons, making the state tournament and winning regional Coach of the Year honors along the way. His first coaching experience was before that, back at Pitt-Bradford having spent a trio of seasons as the men’s basketball team’s assistant coach. DeLoof is a 2013 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford where he was a three-year starting point guard and two-time team captain, earning a degree in Sports Management.
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