Plymouth State University

Andrew Novick enters his 16th season as head men’s basketball coach at Plymouth State in 2026-27. He became the program’s 13th head coach when he was hired in 2011, arriving with valuable collegiate basketball experience, including stints as an assistant at the University of Maryland and Tulane University. He is currently the second-longest tenured coach in the program's 79-year history.
 
Novick became the third men’s basketball coach in school history to record 100 career wins in February 2020, while his 156 career wins rank third in program history. The Panthers have qualified for the LEC Tournament in 10 of 14 full seasons under Novick, not counting the abbreviated 2020-21 season in which the Panthers played just two conference games. The team also made an appearance in the ECAC New England Tournament in 2013-14.
 
Novick guided PSU to the No. 4 seed for the LEC Tournament during the 2016-17 season, earning the team’s first home playoff game in eight seasons. Three years later, his squad went 9-7 in league play, earning the No. 3 seed and hosting No. 6 Keene State in the opening round before advancing to the LEC semifinals for the first time in 15 years.
 
Following the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season, Novick orchestrated a six-game LEC winning streak to earn another home playoff game. The Panthers topped WestConn to reach the semifinals once more before falling to nationally ranked UMass Dartmouth, which PSU had defeated just 12 days earlier.
Novick's athletes have earned numerous postseason accolades. 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 named to the D3hoops.com All-Northeast Region team following the 2017-18 season.
 
 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, the team’s most recent 1,000-point scorer. 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. He also spent two years working under head coach Gary Williams at Maryland and served two stints on the staff at Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine with head coach Bob Brown.
 
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, a basketball clinic that serves approximately 400 middle and high schoolers annually.