Jacob Egelhoff – formerly a graduate assistant at Buffalo and a student manager at Ohio State – is set to join the Harvard Men’s Basketball staff as the Director of Basketball Operations, Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Basketball, announced on Monday.
Egelhoff served as a graduate assistant from 2023-25 and as a special assistant to the head coach in 2025 with the Buffalo men’s basketball program after acting as a four-year student manager with the Ohio State men’s basketball team from 2019-23.
With the Bulls, Egelhoff held responsibilities around team logistics and operations, schedule coordination, analytics and scouting, and student-athlete development.
During his time at Ohio State, including time as the program’s head student manager, he helped the Buckeyes post a 78-51 overall record over his four seasons including three straight 20-win seasons from 2019-20 through 2021-22 and back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2021 and 2022. Egelhoff’s duties included oversight of 13 student managers, practice and game logistics, and data analysis.
A native of Dublin, Ohio and a product of Saint Charles Preparatory High School, Egelhoff earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Ohio State in 2023 and gained a master’s degree in educational studies from Buffalo in 2025.
Egelhoff named Director of Basketball Operations at Harvard
