Loyola Maryland announced Tuesday evening that Joe Logan will not return as head coach of the women’s basketball program after completing his 16th year in that role.
A 1996 graduate of Loyola, Logan served as an assistant coach at the school from 1997 to 2001. As the head coach, he amassed a 184-287 record and departed as the program’s all-time leader in wins.
“I am grateful to Joe for his tenure on behalf of Loyola University Maryland and the women’s basketball program,” athletic director and assistant vice president Donna M. Woodruff said in a statement distributed by the university. “As an alumnus who led our program for 16 seasons as our head coach, Joe will always be a valued member of the Loyola Athletics family and the greater university community. Joe showed a passion not only to his student-athletes and program, but also to the University’s mission and its commitment to educating the whole person. We wish Joe, Susan and their family all the best moving forward.”
The Greyhounds finished 0-13 in a pandemic-shortened 2020 season, falling to Bucknell in the Patriot League quarterfinals. Loyola has not won more than 10 games in a season since 2016-17, when it finished 11-20.
Logan guided the Greyhounds to three Patriot League and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship games, including the 2016 Patriot League final. The 2011 squad qualified for its first Women’s National Invitational Tournament, picked up the school’s first postseason victory by edging Old Dominion, 67-65, in the first round on March 16, and tied the program record for wins in a single season with 21.
Logan was named the MAAC’s Coach of the Year in 2006-07, and his first two teams amassed 38 wins. His players collected 20 all-conference selections and 12 All-Rookie team honors and were major award winners seven times during his tenure.
Loyola’s players also excelled in the classroom under Logan, earning Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division I Academic Honor Roll each of the last five years, and the school is one of three nationally to be listed in the Top 15 of those rankings each of the last three years.
The university announced it will begin a national search immediately.