B.J. Dunne

Dr. Grant, Director of Athletics and DAPER Department Head, has officially announced the hiring of B.J. Dunne as the David H. Koch ’62 Head Coach of Men’s Basketball and Physical Education and Wellness Instructor at MIT.

Dunne, a native of Medfield, Massachusetts, joins MIT after a successful seven-year tenure at Gettysburg College, where he compiled an 89–68 overall record (.567) and guided his teams to four straight Centennial Conference semifinal appearances over the past four seasons. In 2024–25, he helped lead Gettysburg to the program’s first 20-win season since 2007–08 and its highest national ranking in program history at No. 8. The Bullets earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the second round before falling to top-seeded Wesleyan (Conn.). The 2024–25 campaign followed a strong 2023–24 season in which Gettysburg won 19 games and captured the Centennial Conference Regular-Season Championship for the first time in program history.

Gettysburg steadily improved under Dunne’s guidance. The program totaled just 16 wins across the two seasons prior to his arrival and had endured five losing seasons in the previous seven years. Under his leadership, the Bullets experienced a dramatic turnaround, winning 71 games from 2021–2025—the most in any four-year stretch in program history. Dunne increased his win total in every season at the helm, doubling his total from year one to year two and finishing with a 12–13 record before recording four straight winning seasons from 2019–20 through 2024–25. Since the start of the 2018–19 season, his student-athletes earned 20 All-League selections, one D3hoops.com All-Region selection, one Rookie of the Year honor, two All-Rookie selections, one Player of the Year award, and one Defensive Player of the Year award.

Off the court, Dunne was involved in numerous organizations at both the campus and national levels, including serving as Director of Gettysburg Athletics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Student-Athlete Well-Being Coordinator, Gettysburg Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Designee, a member of the NABC Committee for Racial Reconciliation, and Centennial Conference Men’s Basketball Chair.

Prior to Gettysburg, Dunne spent five seasons as head coach at Vassar College from 2013–2018. In his first season, he was the youngest head coach in the NCAA at any level at the time, and by 2016 he was one of two Division III coaches named to the Under Armour 30 Under 30 Team. Dunne inherited a program that had advanced to the conference tournament only twice in 42 years and had won 31 games in the previous five seasons. During his tenure, Vassar advanced to the conference tournament three times and reached the Liberty League Championship Game once. Dunne and his staff were named the 2013–14 Liberty League Co-Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the Brewers to a program-record 19 wins and a trip to the Liberty League Championship Game. Overall, he coached 10 All-Liberty League selections and one D3hoops.com All-East Region selection while at Vassar.

No stranger to the NEWMAC, Dunne spent the 2011–12 season as the top assistant coach at Emerson College under Jim O’Brien, former head coach at Ohio State University and National Co-Coach of the Year in 1999. He also served as an assistant coach at Babson College during the 2010–11 season, working with longtime head coach Stephen Brennan.

In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Dunne founded and served as owner and program director of the Bay State Flash AAU Basketball Club. His teams qualified for nationals twice in two seasons, winning the 2012 U-17 Massachusetts State Championship and the 2012 Hall of Fame National Invitational Championship. In 2015, he represented the United States as head men’s basketball coach at the European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany, leading a team of 12 of the nation’s top Jewish players to a silver medal finish. He has also worked with the Maine Red Claws, the NBA G League affiliate of the Boston Celtics, assisting the Basketball Operations department. Additionally, Dunne has spent three seasons coaching in The Basketball Tournament, including serving as an assistant for the Friday Beers team that advanced to the tournament semifinals in 2023.

A 2010 graduate of Bates College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, Dunne was a three-year letter winner before serving as a student-assistant coach as a senior. During his time at Bates, the Bobcats compiled a 62–39 record, including back-to-back 18-win seasons. In 2006–07, the team was ranked 12th nationally. As a senior, Dunne received the “Love for the Game” Award. He later earned a Master of Science degree in Administrative Studies from Boston College in 2012.

His wife, Megan, was a standout women’s lacrosse player who helped lead Gettysburg to Centennial Conference titles in 2005 and 2006 and was named an All-America Second Team selection in 2008. They have two children, Ford and Miles.