Coach’s Contract Extended
After leading the Virginia Military Institute men’s basketball program to its greatest single-season turnaround in school history, head coach Andrew Wilson signed a three-year extension last week to coach the Keydets through the 2029-30 season.
His original contract upon his hire in April of 2022 was a five-year agreement through the 2026-27 season. Today’s extension initiates an additional three years to lead the Keydets into the 2030 calendar year.
The extension comes in the wake of the success the Keydets enjoyed this past season, in which VMI earned 15 wins, an 11-win improvement from the prior season, to mark VMI’s greatest single-season turnaround since the program began in 1908. Only 14 schools in the country improved by 10 or more wins from the previous (2023-24) season.
The 15 wins in a single season is just the 12th time in the program’s 117-year program history that the Keydets reached that win total, and just the seventh time in VMI’s 89-year history as a member of the Southern Conference.
The nine SoCon wins (seven regular season and two SoCon Tournament wins) marks only the ninth time in program history the Keydets have reached nine wins in the league.
Seeded seventh in the SoCon tournament, VMI advanced to the semifinals for the first time since 2021 and only the 14th time in program history by defeating the No. 2 seed, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, before falling to No. 6 Wofford.
