Jacob Egelhoff – formerly a graduate assistant at Buffalo and a student manager at Ohio State – joined the Harvard Men’s Basketball staff as the Director of Basketball Operations in 2025 and enters his first season in the role in 2025-26.
Egelhoff served as a graduate assistant from 2023-25 and as a special assistant to the head coach in 2025 with the Buffalo men’s basketball program after acting as a four-year student manager with the Ohio State men’s basketball team from 2019-23.
With the Bulls, Egelhoff held responsibilities around team logistics and operations, schedule coordination, analytics and scouting, and student-athlete development.
During his time at Ohio State, including time as the program’s head student manager, he helped the Buckeyes post a 78-51 overall record over his four seasons including three straight 20-win seasons from 2019-20 through 2021-22 and back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2021 and 2022. Egelhoff’s duties included oversight of 13 student managers, practice and game logistics, and data analysis.
A native of Dublin, Ohio and a product of Saint Charles Preparatory High School, Egelhoff earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Ohio State in 2023 and gained a master’s degree in educational studies from Buffalo in 2025.
