Head Coach

Martin Ingelsby

Martin Ingelsby enters his ninth season as the University of Delaware’s men’s basketball head coach in 2024-25.

During the summer of 2022, Ingelsby signed an extension that will keep him in Newark through the 2028-29 season. This was his second extension since signing his original contract in 2016.

Ingelsby and co. returned Delaware basketball to a place it has only been six times in program history with the CAA Championship title and NCAA Tournament First Round appearance in 2022. It marked the Blue Hens’ first conference crown since the 2014 season.

In his time in Newark, Ingelsby and his staff have recruited and coached six Blue Hens to the pros, including Delaware’s first-ever NBA player, Nate Darling.

Also under his leadership, the Blue Hens have garnered three CAA Rookie of the Year awards, 21 All-CAA honors, and six All-District nods.

During the 2021-22 campaign, Delaware posted a 22-13 record, the ninth 20+ win season ever. The 22 wins tied Ingelsby’s season-best from the 2019-20 year. For the third time under Ingelsby, a Blue Hen was dubbed the league’s Rookie of the Year as Jyáre Davis garnered the award with 9.7 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. Davis was also the CAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player and was joined by teammates Kevin Anderson and Andrew Carr on the all-tournament team. Jameer Nelson Jr. rounded out the Hens’ postseason CAA award winners as an All-CAA Second Team selection. Despite missing out on any CAA awards, Dylan Painter was tabbed to the NABC Second Team All-District.

Ingelsby led a steady improvement for the Blue Hens, as UD was one of just three Division I schools to increase its win total in four consecutive years from 2016-20.

In 2019-20 Ingelsby led UD to even greater heights as the Blue Hens finished 22-11, posting a five-win improvement and recording the eighth 20-win season in program history. Delaware set a program record by winning its first nine games, earning a vote in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in two decades. The Blue Hens tied for fourth place in the CAA and defeated Charleston in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals for the second consecutive year.

In 2018-19 the Blue Hens finished 17-16 and were fifth in the CAA standings, posting their highest win total and highest CAA finish in five years. Delaware erased a 14-point halftime deficit in the 85-79 win over William & Mary in the CAA quarterfinals, the largest halftime comeback in CAA Tournament history.

After spending the previous 13 seasons on the Notre Dame coaching staff from 2003-16, Ingelsby led the Blue Hens to 13 victories during his first year in Newark, including a win over Hofstra in the CAA Tournament. During his second year, Delaware won 14 games and earned a CAA Tournament victory for the second consecutive year by defeating Elon in the first round.

Ingelsby, the 24th head coach in UD men’s basketball history, is a native of Berwyn, Pa., and was a standout point guard for Notre Dame from 1997-2001. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Wagner College during the 2002-03 campaign before returning to his alma mater as Notre Dame’s coordinator of basketball operations. He spent six seasons in that position before being promoted to assistant coach in July 2009, a position he held for seven years. During his tenure in South Bend, Ingelsby helped lead the Irish to eight NCAA Tournament appearances.

While in South Bend Ingelsby primarily worked with the Notre Dame guards and played an integral role in elevating the program’s national recruiting efforts. The Fighting Irish reaped the benefits of that recruiting success over his final two seasons as Notre Dame advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight in both 2015 and 2016.

The Fighting Irish enjoyed a magical 2014-15 campaign as Notre Dame won the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament title, made its first Elite Eight appearance since 1979, and posted the second 30-win season in school history by finishing with a 32-6 mark.

Despite losing Jerian Grant and Pat Connaughton to the NBA, Notre Dame followed with another outstanding campaign in 2015-16, advancing to the ACC Tournament Semifinals before making its second straight Elite Eight appearance.

Ingelsby helped mentor Grant, a first team consensus All-American and unanimous first team All-ACC pick in 2015 before getting selected by the New York Knicks with the 19th pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. He also worked extensively with Connaughton, who played in a school-record 139 games and was the 41st pick in the 2015 NBA Draft by the Brooklyn Nets. That season marked the first time since 1992 that two Notre Dame players were selected in the same year of the NBA Draft.

Under Ingelsby’s tutelage, Irish point guard Demetrius Jackson enjoyed an outstanding season in 2015-16, earning second team All-ACC and NCAA East Regional All-Tournament Team accolades.

Ingelsby helped lead Notre Dame to a school-record seven consecutive 20-win seasons from 2006-13, while the Irish posted 97 victories from 2009-13, the most wins in a four-year period in school history. During Ingelsby’s 13 seasons at his alma mater, Irish teams went 290-146 (.665) and the program posted a 168-76 record with six NCAA Tournament appearances in seven years once he assumed assistant coaching duties.

Ingelsby was Notre Dame’s starting point guard during three of his four seasons in South Bend. As a senior in 2000-01, he averaged 8.2 points and a team-high 6.4 assists as a starter in all 30 games. A team captain during his senior year, he guided the Irish to a 20-10 overall record and the Big East’s West Division championship, the school’s first-ever conference title. Additionally, Notre Dame advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament after earning a berth in the field for the first time in more than a decade in Mike Brey’s first season.

Ingelsby also started for the Irish as a freshman and sophomore and led the team in assists during three of his four seasons. He handed out a team-high 150 assists as a freshman and earned a spot on the 1998 Big East All-Rookie Team.

A two-time member of the Big East Academic All-Star Team, Ingelsby was the recipient of the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne Student-Athlete Award during his senior season. He graduated from the Mendoza College of Business with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in May 2001.

Ingelsby enjoyed an outstanding career at Archbishop Carroll High School in suburban Philadelphia where he finished as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,425 points and led his teams to an 80-12 record during his three years on the varsity squad.

Following his senior year in 1997, he won the prestigious Markward Award, given annually to the top high school player in the Philadelphia area, and was the Gatorade Player of the Year for Philadelphia while also earning All-Catholic League honors three times. Ingelsby was also named South Catholic League MVP as a senior and was a McDonald’s All-America honorable mention selection.

Ingelsby’s father, Tom, was a standout guard at Villanova from 1970-73 and served as his son’s head coach at Archbishop Carroll. Tom led Villanova to the 1971 NCAA championship game and played for the Atlanta Hawks during the 1973-74 season and for the Spirits of St. Louis in the ABA the following year.

Ingelsby and his wife, Colleen, are the parents of twins Will and Kate, and sons Jack and Ben.