Both SUNY Cortland Basketball Coaches Reach 400-Win Milestones

01/23/2018 

SUNY Cortland’s men’s and women’s basketball coaches each celebrated milestone, 400^th game victories within a four-day span earlier this month.

Jeannette Mosher earned her 400th career victory in her 20th season as the head coach of the women’s basketball team when the Red Dragons defeated Potsdam, 83-46, on Jan. 13.

Tom Spanbauer ‘83, who has coached SUNY Cortland’s men’s team for 23 seasons, recorded his 400th collegiate victory in an 80-64 win over Oneonta on Jan. 16.

Mosher has a career record of 433-205. She was 33-65 as the head coach at Alfred University from 1994-98.

At SUNY Cortland, Mosher has led her teams to 21 or more wins in 10 separate seasons and also has three 19-win campaigns. A six-time SUNYAC Coach of the Year, Mosher was the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) East Region Coach of the Year for the 2009-10 season in which the Red Dragons went 25-4, won SUNYAC regular season and tournament titles and played in the NCAA Division III tournament. She has guided SUNY Cortland to five SUNYAC tournament championships and has advanced to the NCAA tournament eight times. Mosher led her team to the NCAA “Sweet 16” in 2001, SUNY Cortland’s first appearance in that round since 1992.

Mosher was named Basketball Coaches Association of New York (BCANY) Coach of the Year six times (2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2010) and was inducted into BCANY’s New York State Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.

A 1990 alumna of St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Ind., Mosher graduated as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 2,280 points. She was selected to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2011 Silver Anniversary Team.

Spanbauer is 400-246 in his 24-year collegiate coaching career, including a 388-233 mark at SUNY Cortland since 1995. He was 12-13 as the head coach at Alfred University during the 1994-95 season.

SUNY Cortland advanced to the NCAA Division III “Sweet 16” during the 1999 and 2000 seasons. Spanbauer is a four-time recipient of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) East Region Coach of the Year and has won the New York State Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year three times. He was named SUNYAC Coach of the Year six times, most recently after the 2015-16 season when SUNY Cortland went 21-8 and won the SUNYAC tournament title.

Spanbauer previously served as an assistant coach at the University at Albany from 1986-89 and was an assistant at Alfred University for five years before he became the head coach. He currently teaches in SUNY Cortland’s physical education department and also serves as head coach of the Red Dragons’ women’s tennis program.

A native of Niagara Falls, N.Y., Spanbauer was a three-sport standout at Niagara Catholic High School and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2012. Spanbauer was a two-time team captain of SUNY Cortland’s men’s basketball team during his playing career, finishing with 1,106 career points. He was a two-time All-SUNYAC selection and also earned All-ECAC and All-State honors during his senior season.