| Title: | Head Coach |
| Phone: | (518) 629-7328 |
| Email: | m.long@hvcc.edu |
First Season at HVCC: 2013-14
Enters 11th season in 2023-24
Record at HVCC: 154-95 (.618)
Career Record: 552-403 (.578)
Hall of Fame head coach Mike Long returns for his 11th season as head basketball coach as he continues to strive for a NJCAA Region 3 championship at Hudson Valley.
Long, who enters the 2023-24 season with a career record of 552-405 record has amassed a 154-95 (.618) record over the last 10 seasons at Hudson Valley, including three 20-win seasons.
In 2022-23, Long led the Vikings to a winning record for the fourth-consecutive season and reached the NJCAA Region 3 championships semifinals to face the top-seeded Mohawk Valley Hawks, where Trevor Green scored his 1,000th career point.
Long. who is familiar with the NJCAA from his time at Sage College (formerly Sage Junior College of Albany), earned his second NJCAA Region III Coach of the Year honors in 2015-16 after finishing the season with a 20-10 record. Long was named the Coach of the Year at Sage JCA following the 2001-02 season.
Long brings to Hudson Valley more than 40 years of coaching experience. He began his head coaching career at Saint Rose from 1973 to 1986, where he compiled a 166-155 record. Prior to that, Long was an assistant coach for the Ft. Sheridan Post Team and later became the JV coach at his alma mater, Siena College, for a season.
After his tenure at Saint Rose, Long became the head coach at Sage College of Albany from 1990 to 2003. He boasted an impressive 222-142 record in his 13 years, and was named Region 3, Division II Coach of the Year by the National Junior College Athletic Association following the 2001-02 season, when Sage finished 27-4. Long also spent time as an assistant coach at the Junior College of Albany from 1986 to 1990 and as the assistant varsity boys’ basketball coach at Christian Brothers Academy, prior to his return to Saint Rose in 2006.
Long is a member of four different halls of fame: Saint Rose Hall of Fame (1992), Bishop Maginn Hall of Fame (2006), the New York State Capital District Basketball Hall of Fame (2010) and the Sage Colleges Athletics Hall of Fame (2019). The Saint Rose basketball court is named “Mike Long Court,” as he is considered “the father of Saint Rose basketball” after developing a program that dominated the Northeastern Athletic Conference (NAC) from 1977-84, winning five NAC titles, and posting two consecutive undefeated seasons (1978-80) in conference play. Long was also the 2013 recipient of the Capital District Basketball Hall of Fame Sam Perkins Sportsmanship award.
Career Record (Year by Year)
Year College Record
1972-73 Siena 10-10
1973-74 Saint Rose 5-15
1975-76 Saint Rose 6-15
1976-77 Saint Rose 11-13
1977-78 Saint Rose 14-10
1978-79 Saint Rose 22-5
1980-81 Saint Rose 16-12
1981-82 Saint Rose 15-14
1982-83 Saint Rose 11-17
1983-84 Saint Rose 17-14
1984-85 Saint Rose 11-17
1985-86 Saint Rose 14-17
1990-91 Sage-JCA 11-15
1991-92 Sage-JCA 14-11
1992-93 Sage-JCA 17-11
1993-94 Sage-JCA 23-7
1994-95 Sage-JCA 19-9
1995-96 Sage-JCA 16-14
1996-97 Sage-JCA 19-11
1997-98 Sage-JCA 13-13
1998-99 Sage-JCA 14-13
1999-00 Sage-JCA 11-16
2000-01 Sage-JCA 19-9
2001-02 Sage-Albany 27-4
2002-03 Sage-Albany 19-9
2013-14 Hudson Valley 12-13
2014-15 Hudson Valley 15-13
2015-16 Hudson Valley 20-10
2016-17 Hudson Valley 18-11
2017-18 Hudson Valley 12-15
2018-19 Hudson Valley 21-8
2019-20 Hudson Valley 23-8
2020-21 Hudson Valley COVID-19
2021-22 Hudson Valley 16-7
2022-23 Hudson Valley 17-10
Hudson Valley Record: 154-95
Career Totals Wins: 552-403