The Ball State men’s basketball team has added John Clancy as an assistant coach, head coach Michael Lewis announced.
“I am extremely excited to add John Clancy to our basketball staff,” Lewis said. “John quickly rose to the top with his vast network of recruiting connections and his ability to attract student-athletes in today’s new era of college athletics. Combined with his on-the-court teaching and coaching ability, especially in the area of player development, John will be a great complement and addition to our current staff.”
Clancy comes to Muncie after most recently serving two seasons as an assistant at Western Illinois and, before that, two seasons as the head coach at Triton College in River Grove, Ill. Triton made it to the NJCAA national semifinals in its division in 2021-22 under Clancy’s leadership, and he was named the Region IV Coach of the Year and IBCA Junior College Coach of the Year.
Clancy has extensive ties to the state of Illinois, including four seasons at Southern Illinois University (2015-19) where he worked as the director of operations, and more specifically the Chicagoland area, where he started his coaching career at the high school level.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to join Coach Lewis’ staff at Ball State as an assistant coach,” Clancy said. “I’m excited to work with an experienced and accomplished staff at a place where basketball is very important! I look forward to getting our players here this summer and start building towards a special season in Muncie!”
A guard on Concordia University-Chicago in his playing days, Clancy was named team captain as a freshman and was voted to the Northern Illinois-Iowa All-Conference team.
John Clancy Coaching Timeline
2025-Present – Ball State (assistant coach)
2023-25 – Western Illinois (assistant coach)
2021-23 – Triton College (head coach)
2020-21 – John A. Logan College (assistant coach)
2019-20 – Triton College (assistant coach)
2015-19 – Southern Illinois (director of operations)
2012-15 – Niles North High School (assistant coach)
2009-12 – Wheeling High School, St. Viator High School, Elk Grove High School
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