Jim Christian serves as Head Coach for Canisius University's Men's Basketball program in Buffalo, New York.
Jim Christian was officially named the 25th head coach in Canisius men’s basketball program history on April 8, 2024. With nearly two decades of NCAA Division I head coaching experience to his credit, Christian took over the Golden Griffin program after spending the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons as an assistant coach and in an administrative role at Kent State University. In 2022-23, Kent State won 28 games and secured the conference’s automatic berth into the 2023 NCAA Tournament, where it eventually fell to Indiana.
