Susquehanna’s head men’s basketball coach Frank Marcinek has announced the hiring of Don Friday as his new assistant coach, announced on Monday.

Friday comes to SU from Division I St. Francis (Pa.) where he was the head coach from 2008-12. He led the Red Flash to the Northeast Conference (NEC) playoffs in 2010 and 2011, the program’s first playoff berth since 2005.

Friday was also the head coach at Lycoming from 2003-08 where he led the Warriors to the 2008 Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Commonwealth regular season title and was subsequently named the Coach of the Year that season.

He was also named the MAC Coach of the Year in 2006 and led the 2004 squad to the MAC Freedom Conference Tournament title. His 2004 team was ranked first in the conference in defensive field goal percentage and second in all of Division III in rebounding.

Friday also had stints at Bucknell (1994-2003) and Lebanon Valley (1989-94), where he was an assistant on the 1994 DIII national champion Lebanon Valley team.

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