Kieran Flanagan joined the men's basketball coaching staff for the 2025-26 season after completing a historic five-year career with the Red Hawks.
Flanagan started every game he appeared in and finished as the program's all-time leader in both categories at 117. He logged 3,138 minutes (ranks second in program history), 867 points, 559 rebounds, 473 assists, and 167 steals. He was named All-Met Honorable Mention during his graduate year campaign and collected NJAC Honorable Mention honors the year prior.
Once of the winningest student-athletes in program history, Flanagan helped guide the Red Hawks to 82 victories over his five seasons at Montclair. He played a crucial role on the 2022-23 team that qualified for the NCAA Tournament with a 22-7 record, marking the program's first appearance in the competition in 20 years. Two years later, he helped lead the Red Hawks to another 22-7 mark and NCAA Tournament Appearance, along with the program's 11th NJAC Championship.
Flanagan's first year on staff marked one of the most successful and historic runs in the history of the program, headlined by a program record 25 wins that broke a 57-year mark. Montclair ascended to the top of the D3Hoops.com Division III Top 25 Poll, marking the first time in program history that the team has been ranked number one in the country and just the second time in the state of New Jersey that a program has reached the nation's top mark (Seton Hall, 1953).
Montclair posted a 24 game winning streak to kick off the 2025-26 season, tying Rowan's 1993-94 team for the second-longest winning streak in the history of the NJAC. The Red Hawks won their second consecutive NJAC Regular Season Championship, with their 58 conference regular season wins over the last four seasons being the most of any four-year stretch in the history of the program. Their appearance in the 2026 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament marked their third trip to the competition in the past four seasons, including each of the last two being named a host site.
