Jack Perri has been named head men’s basketball coach at LIU Brooklyn. Perri takes the reigns of the Blackbirds program after Jim Ferry took a similar position at Duquesne. Perri, 36, has spent seven seasons on the LIU staff, including the last five as associate head coach. He was promoted to that position in August 2007 and has played a vital role in recruiting, scouting and developing players on LIU’s back-to-back Northeast Conference champion rosters.

Before joining Ferry’s staff at LIU, Perri served as the head men’s basketball coach at Division III Rhode Island College in 2004-05. In his lone season at Rhode Island College, Perri took the Anchormen to the final of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament after posting a 20-9 record. Under Perri’s direction, Rhode Island College captured the program’s first Little East Conference co-regular season championship and he was named the league’s coach of the year in his first season at the helm.

Following his graduation from Bentley College, the Manalapan, N.J., native moved to the sidelines as the top assistant coach at his alma mater. As the top assistant from 1998 to 2004, he was responsible for all aspects of recruiting and helped build a squad that went on to earn the No. 1 national ranking in 2004-05 and a No. 2 ranking in 2006-07. During his time on the staff with the Falcons, he helped the team return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in eight seasons in 2002.