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 second season in the role in 2026-27.
In the 2025-26 season, Egelhoff served on a coaching staff that earned Ivy League Co-Coaching Staff of the Year honors as Harvard posted a 17-12 overall record and 10-4 Ivy League mark, finishing in second place in the conference standings for its highest league finish since the 2019-20 season. The Crimson qualified for the Ivy League Tournament for the first time since 2020 and competed at the event for the first time since 2019. Egelhoff worked with the Ivy League’s top scoring defense (66.7 points per game allowed) alongside a trio of All-Ivy selections in Robert Hinton ’28, Chandler Piggé ’26, and Thomas Batties II ’27 with Hinton earning First Team All-Ivy accolades unanimously.
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.
