Anthony Grant

Anthony Grant is approaching his seventh season at the helm of his alma mater’s men’s basketball program and is also in his second season as the Dr. Stephen B. Levitt Head Men’s Basketball Coaching Chair.

Dayton was 29-2 in 2019-20, setting the school record for most wins. Dayton ended the year ranked third in the nation and won its third Atlantic 10 regular season championship in the last five years but went undefeated (18-0) in conference play for the first time. Grant was the consensus national Coach of the Year, earning that honor from the Atlanta Tip-Off Club (Naismith Trophy), the NABC, the USBWA (Henry Iba Award), the Associated Press, The Sporting News, Fox Sports and CBSsports. com, among others.

In their six years on campus, Grant and his staff have brought in six players who have been named to the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team at the end of their freshman seasons.

He was the 13th active African-American coach at the Division I level to reach 300 wins. Grant is also a 1987 graduate of the University of Dayton, where he was a four-year basketball letterwinner and three-year starter. He played in 105 games at Dayton and averaged 11.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game as a starter. He was the Flyers’ co-captain and the White-Allen Most Valuable Player as a senior. His teams played in two NCAAs and one NIT.

The 20th coach in Dayton’s history, Grant is just the seventh Flyer coach in the last 70 years. In the modern era of UD basketball, Grant is just the second Dayton grad to coach the Flyers. The first was his coach, College BB Hall of Famer Don Donoher (1964-89).