James Cosgrove begins his second season as head men's basketball coach at Trinity College in 2011-2012.  Cosgrove posted a 166-77 record at Adelphi University over the last eight seasons, and also has head coaching experience at Endicott College.  Cosgrove’s teams posted a winning record and reached the post-season in each of his eight seasons at Adelphi, won 20 or more games six times, and earned four NCAA Tournament bids in a five-year span from 2002-03 to 2006-07.  Cosgrove guided Adelphi into the NCAA Second Round in 2005-06.  Last winter, in its first season in the highly-competitive Northeast 10 Conference, Adelphi earned a 22-10 mark and played its way into the league tournament finals with three post-season victories.  His teams have been regularly ranked among the best in the nation defensively, including the 2008-09 squad that led NCAA Division II in field goal percentage defense (37.6 FG%) and was fourth nationally in scoring defense (58.9 ppg).  In the classroom, his players at Adelphi had a 100 percent graduation rate in seven seasons prior to 2009-10.

Adelphi won the East Coast Conference (ECC, formerly NYCAC) Championship title in his first season at the school in 2002-03, and captured the league crown again in 2005-06 and in 2006-07.  Adelphi reached the ECC Finals in 2007-08, and finished atop the ECC regular season standings in 2004-05 and 2005-06.  Cosgrove was named as the ECC Coach of the Year in 2004-05 and as the Metropolitan Writers Association Division II Coach of the Year in both 2004-05 and 2005-06.  At Endicott, Cosgrove accumulated a 68-39 record including an 18-10 record in 1999-00, the program’s first Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship title, and its first bid to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.  His 1998-99 Endicott team won the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) regular-season crown and earned Cosgrove GNAC Coach of the Year honors.  He has a 234-116 record in 13 seasons as a head coach for a .669 winning percentage. 

Cosgrove also served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, St. Anselm College, from 1993-97, helping the Hawks to an 89-29 record, three straight NCAA Tournament appearances, and a pair of conference championships.  Also owning coaching experience at St. Thomas More Prep School in Connecticut and at the University of Hartford, Cosgrove graduated from St. Anselm in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and owns a master’s degree in teaching from Sacred Heart University.  He was a two-time All-Northeast 10 selection and Northeast-10 Rookie of the Year in 1984. Serving as team captain from 1985-87, he led St. Anselm to a 25-5 record and a No. 6 national ranking in the Division II Final Poll in 1987. He held the school's all-time record in assists and steals and was inducted into the St. Anselm College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.  In 2007 Cosgrove was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a player at St. Thomas More High School and St. Anselm College.

“I am excited to come back home, but I am much more excited to be a part of Trinity College’s rich tradition of excellence in both academics and athletics,” states Cosgrove, who grew up in West Hartford.  “If Trinity were not in Connecticut, I would be just as happy to get this chance.  The Trinity basketball team has consistently competed at a high level in an elite Division III conference, the NESCAC, and I am honored to be the next head coach of the Bantam program.”