Not to bury the lede on a day after a day in which Dartmouth announced its new men's basketball coach, but the Big Green football program has its new running backs coach.
Add to the Dartmouth staff Ben Wilkerson, most recently running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Fordham. A former Alfred State quarterback who played professionally for three years in Europe, Wilkerson helped standout running back Julius Loughridge to back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons while at Fordham.
Prior to his time in The Bronx, Wilkerson coached at Arkansas Pine Bluff, Buffalo, Susquehanna and Buffalo State, as well as at Alfred State. In addition to running backs, he has coached quarterbacks and wide receivers at the college level.
Also joining the Dartmouth program this spring is new offensive quality control assistant Luke Seale.
With Wilkerson onboard, here's how the retooled Dartmouth staff looks heading into spring practice, which begins one week from today:
Head Coach: Sammy McCorkle
Offensive Coordinator: Shane Montgomery
Quarterbacks: Shane Montgomery
Offensive Line: Keith Clark
Tight Ends: Kevin Daft
Wide Receivers: Todd Gilcrist
Running Backs: Ben Wilkerson
Defensive Coordinator: Jordan Belfiori
Linebackers: Jordan Belfiori
Defensive Line: Quentin Jones
Corners: Adam McGuire
Secondary: Kevin Bracken
Offensive Quality Control: Luke Seale
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| From Dartmouth athletics social media |
Hired to try to bring Dartmouth its first Ivy League men's basketball title since 1959 is Brett MacConnell, who spent last season at Stanford after 13 years on staff at Princeton. Find a Dartmouth release HERE, an ESPN release HERE, a NJ.com story HERE, and arguably the most revealing story about him coming to Hanover in the Princetonian HERE.
A four-year student manager at Rutgers in his native New Jersey, MacConnell made stops at Delaware Valley, Holy Family and Saint Peter's before coming to Princeton ahead of the 2012-13 season as director of basketball operations. After one season he was promoted to assistant coach. He was named recruiting coordinator in 2015, and in 2018 was given the title associate head coach.
In his role as recruiting coordinator MacConnell helped bring recent standouts Xavian Lee and Caden Pierce to the Tigers, along with Tosan Evbuomwan and Devin Cannady, who both went on to the NBA.
Interestingly, during his time in Princeton he filled in as head coach for the Tigers for four games, including a 77-76 overtime win at Hanover on March 1, 2019.
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— Dartmouth Men’s Basketball (@DartmouthMBB) March 31, 2026
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EXTRA POINTAfter a winter buried in the back of our garage, the '84 VW poptop camper started without any problem yesterday. We drove it into town to do an errand, and the 42-year-old vehicle performed like a champion.
