Nick Bennett enters his third season as an assistant coach for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men’s basketball team in 2015-16. He is the program’s recruiting coordinator, academic coordinator and lead scout.
Bennett helped lead the Warhawks to the 2014 NCAA Division III national championship. UW-Whitewater also tied a school record with 29 wins and ranked second in the nation in scoring margin, defeating its opponents by an average of 17.2 points per contest.
Bennett works primarily with the Warhawks’ guards. Three members of the team’s backcourt were selected first team All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2013-14. All three shot better than 50 percent from the floor and averaged 10 or more points. One year later, senior guard Quardell Young was a consensus first team All-American and the WIAC Player of the Year.
Prior to starting with the Warhawks, Bennett served as an assistant coach at the University of Texas Pan American (2010-13) and at Florida Gulf Coast University (2007-10), both NCAA Division I institutions.
While at Texas Pan American, Bennett served as recruiting coordinator and helped develop three all-conference student-athletes. The Broncs increased their win total from six in 2010-11 to 16 in 2012-13, and the team’s grade point average jumped from 2.2 to 3.1 on a 4.0 scale during his tenure.
Bennett oversaw player development and was in charge of scouting, scheduling, video operations and camps at Florida Gulf Coast. He recruited 2013 Atlantic Sun Player of the Year Sherwood Brown.
Bennett was also a graduate assistant at Marquette University (2006-07) and UW-Stevens Point (2005-06). He was the director of basketball operations at Marquette, and helped recruit the Pointers’ 2006 recruiting class, which went on to lead UW-Stevens Point to the 2010 national championship.
Bennett was a standout, four-year member of the UW-Stevens Point men’s basketball team from 2001-05. He helped lead the Pointers to national titles in 2004, when he was named the NCAA Division III Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, and 2005, when he earned All-America accolades. During Bennett’s career, UW-Stevens Point won three WIAC championships and two conference tournament titles.
Bennett graduated from UW-Stevens Point in 2005 with a bachelor’s in broad field social studies and in 2014 with a master’s in education. He is a native of Stevens Point.
Bennett is also an instructor in the health, physical education, recreation and coaching department at UW-Whitewater.
Updated July 14, 2015
