Dartmouth Men’s Hoops Coach Dave Faucher Quits Effective at Season’s End

Dave Faucher resigned yesterday as Dartmouth men’s basketball coach, effective at the end of this season.

The resignation comes during the final stretch of a disappointing 3-19 campaign—likely the first season in which the Big Green will lose 20 or more contests since 1984-1985.

Faucher’s Dartmouth squad currently sits at the bottom of the Ivy League with a 1-7 record and ranks 324th out of 326 Division I teams, according to the RPI.

The Big Green is currently in the midst of a 12-game losing streak, dropping nine of those 12 by 10 or more points.

Faucher took over the Dartmouth head coaching job in 1991 and led the Big Green to six consecutive 10-win seasons capped off by the 1996-1997 campaign in which Faucher’s squad went 18-8 and 10-4 in Ivy play.

Since then, however, Dartmouth has had only one 10-win season while recording five seasons of 18 losses or more.

With Faucher’s departure, Harvard coach Frank Sullivan—who also took over in 1991—now sits alone as the second-longest tenured coach in the Ancient Eight behind Penn’s Fran Dunphy.

Faucher’s 136 career wins makes him the third winningest coach in school history, behind Alvin Julian, who is first with 183, and Osborne Cowles, who ranks second with 144.