Plymouth State University

Andrew Novick enters his 15th season as head men’s basketball coach at Plymouth State in 2025-26. He became the program’s 13th head coach when he was hired in 2011 after gaining valuable experience throughout collegiate basketball, including stints as assistants at the University of Maryland and Tulane University. He is currently the second-longest tenured coach in the program's 76-year history.
 
Novick has won 149 games over his 14 years, third-most in school history, and became the program's third coach to record 100 career wins with a victory over Castleton University on Feb. 19, 2020. The Panthers have qualified for the LEC Tournament in 10-of-13 full seasons under Novick (not counting an abbreviated 2020-21 in which the Panthers played just two conference games), while also making an appearance in the ECAC New England Tournament in 2013-14.
 
Novick led Plymouth State to a 16-11 record in 2019-20, winning 10-of-14 games down the stretch to finish tied for third in the final LEC standings. The Panthers held off Keene State in overtime, 72-70, to advance to the semifinals, while the 16 victories matched the most wins in a ten-year span.
 
After a COVID-shortened season in 2020-21, Novick guided the Panthers to six straight conference wins, capped by a 75-74 victory over nationally-ranked UMass Dartmouth, to post a 9-7 conference mark and take fourth in the final league standings. PSU dispatched WestConn in the first round game but was tripped up in the semifinals at top-seeded UMass Dartmouth. 
 
During the 2016-17 season, Novick guided PSU to the #4 seed for the LEC Tournament. PSU hosted its first home playoff game in eight seasons, dropping a four-point decision to UMass Boston in a thrilling back-and-forth contest.
 
Last winter, Novick's Panthers opened with a five-game winning streak, improving to 6-1 with a win over UMass Dartmouth in the conference opener. PSU was competitive throughout the season, as six of the team's 13 losses were by five points or less.
 
In his time at the helm, Novick's athletes have earned numerous postseason accolades. All told he has coached 11 All-LEC honorees, including the program’s fifth Rookie of the Year, Donte Rivera, in 2018-19. His athletes have also claimed All-Rookie Team and All-Defensive Team honors, while Mike Osgood ’19 was honored by D3hoops.com following the 2017-18 season with inclusion on its All-Northeast Region team.
 
Ten of the program’s top-33 all-time leading scorers played under Novick, including Jaylen LeRoy '20, whose 1,811 career points rank fourth in program history, and Kevin Henry '25, who became the 36th player in program history to score 1,000 career points. LeRoy went on to play professionally following his graduation.
 
A native of Portland, Maine, Novick was a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland before joining the staff at Tulane in 2005. He served five seasons at Tulane under head coach Dave Dickerson, helping the Green Wave to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in 11 years and was part of the staff that helped the team rebuild the school and the city following the devastation by Hurricane Katrina.
 
Novick also spent two years working under head coach Gary Williams at Maryland and has served two stints on the staff at Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine with head coach Bob Brown.
 
After earning a varsity letter and captaining Deering High's basketball team, Novick earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1999. During his college years he managed and coached in the Yes! To Youth program in Portland, Maine, a basketball clinic that serves approximately 400 middle and high schoolers annually.