Tom Devitt returns for his second season as the Director of Basketball Operations for the men’s basketball team at the University of Hartford. Added to the Hawks’ staff in summer 2013, Devitt brings nearly 20 years of experience in college basketball, including six at the Division I level, to Hartford.
Devitt came to Hartford by way of Wentworth Institute of Technology where he spent 11 seasons as the team’s head coach. During Devitt’s time as head coach, Wentworth, which posted just five wins in his first year as head coach, turned around to capture the Commonwealth Coast Conference Championship four years later in 2007, making the program’s first NCAA Division III Tournament appearance since the 1997 campaign.
A two-time CCC Coach of the Year in 2007 and 2010, Devitt brought his squad to eight consecutive CCC Tournament appearances while amassing a program-best 139 wins, including 66 over his final four seasons. The last four seasons also included four-straight ECAC Tournament bids for the Leopards.
Devitt jumped into NCAA Division I men’s basketball early, working for the men’s hoops team at Boston College, his alma mater, as an undergraduate student assistant. Upon graduation, he stayed with the team for four more years after being hired as the Eagles’ director of basketball operations.
Devitt and Gallagher’s paths crossed several years before reuniting at Hartford. After winning the BIG EAST Championship in 1997, Boston College lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Gallagher’s alma mater, St. Joseph’s, at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to that, Devitt was a part of the 1994 Boston College squad that made an impressive run to the Elite Eight as a No. 9 seed after knocking off defending national champion and No. 1-ranked North Carolina in the second round as well as Indiana in the Sweet 16.
Following his stint at Boston College, Devitt, a Washington, D.C. native, returned to his hometown to take on his first assistant coaching job with the men’s basketball team at American University. Devitt and his wife, Amanda, reside in Bloomfield, Conn., with their one-year-old daughter, Violet.
