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Brown Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun has filled the vacant head men’s basketball coach by naming Eric Reveno the program’s 32nd head coach.
Reveno has spent the last two seasons at Stanford on the staff of former Columbia head coach Kyle Smith. He was named associate head coach in April 2024 and just over a year later had the title of general manager added to his portfolio.
Oddly, the main theme of last month’s Ivy preseason teleconference seemed to be the value of tough nonconference scheduling. Nearly every Ivy coach talked at length about how scheduling a challenging nonconference slate made teams better. We all know that strength of schedule becomes a major factor for teams in power conferences as Selection Sunday approaches, but that doesn’t apply to the 14-game tournament that is the Ivy League. Still, we’ll likely to learn a lot about our beloved Ancient Eight when they hit the road to take on some of the nation’s most powerful programs. At the very least, nonconference play can be exciting when we least expect it. Who expected Cornell to jump out to a 14-point lead at No. 8 Syracuse last November? Who expected No. 2 Michigan State to trail Columbia by seven in the second half at the Breslin Center and the game to swing for good on back-to-back phony shot clock countdowns?