Tom Devitt returns for his seventh season as a member of the Hartford men’s basketball team’s coaching staff. Named an assistant coach for the 2015-16 campaign after previously serving two seasons as the director of basketball operations, Devitt was added to the Hawks’ staff in summer 2013 and brings 20 years of collegiate coaching experience Hartford, including four NCAA Tournament appearances in his time at the Division I level.

Devitt came to Hartford by way of Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he spent 11 seasons as the team’s head coach. He led Wentworth to a major turnaround, leading the program to the Commonwealth Coast Conference Championship and first NCAA Division III Tournament appearance since 1997 in 2007. 

A two-time CCC Coach of the Year in 2007 and 2010 who concluded his tenure as the all-time winningest coach in program history (139), Devitt brought his squad to eight consecutive CCC Tournament appearances and four-straight ECAC Tournament bids in his final four seasons.

Devitt gained NCAA Division I basketball experience early in his career as he started out as an undergraduate student assistant for the Boston College men’s hoops team. Upon graduation, he remained at his alma mater for four more years after being hired as the Eagles’ director of basketball operations.

Devitt and Gallagher’s paths crossed several years before reuniting at Hartford. After winning the BIG EAST Championship in 1997, Boston College lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Gallagher’s alma mater, St. Joseph’s, at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to that, Devitt was a part of the 1994 Boston College squad that made an impressive run to the Elite Eight as a No. 9 seed after knocking off defending national champion and No. 1-ranked North Carolina in the second round as well as Indiana in the Sweet 16.

Following his stint at Boston College, Devitt, a Washington, D.C. native, returned to his hometown to take on his first assistant coaching job with the men’s basketball team at American University. 
 
Devitt's wife, Amanda, serves as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Services and Success for Hartford Athletics. The couple resides in West Hartford with their daughter, Violet. 

Tim Brooks enters his first season as an assistant coach for the Hartford men’s basketball team in 2019-20.
 
Brooks joins the Hawks’ coaching staff by way of IMG Academy in Brandenton, Fla., where he was the head varsity national assistant coach for two years from 2017-19. Leading the program to its first-ever No. 1 national ranking and “Geico High School Nationals” championship in 2018-19.
 
During his time at IMG Academy, Brooks coached a single-season record three McDonald’s All-Americans in 2018-19, while contributing to the development of several high-major Division I commitments.
 
Brooks was the head varsity assistant coach at St. John’s College High School prior to his stint at IMG Academy. Spending four seasons with the staff from 2013-17, he helped lead St. John’s to the program’s most wins in a four-year stretch (112), including the only 30-win season in program history in 2015-16.
 
Coaching 16 players who elevated their careers to the collegiate rankings — including 11 that played at the Division I level — Brooks helped pilot the team to its first No. 1 ranking in the Washington Post since 1984 in 2013-14, and St. John’s highest national ranking in the USA Today Super 25(No. 5) in 2015-16. 
 
During his stint, Brooks also helped lead St. John’s to four straight Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament appearances — including the program’s first since 2007 — as well as two WCAC Regular-Season Championships and the program’s first WCAC Championship since 2000 in 2015-16.
 
In addition to serving as an assistant coach for Team Takeover (2013-15) and Bishop Ireton High School (2011-13), Brooks has also worked with the St. John’s College High School Basketball Camp (2011-17) and the 
 
As an undergraduate at James Madison University, Brooks served as manager of the men’s basketball team in 2008-09. He graduated in 2011 with a degree in economics. 

Former Hartford men’s basketball standout Yolonzo Moore II enters his third season as a member of his alma mater’s coaching staff in 2019-20. Moore, who was hired as the Director of Operations prior to the start of the 2017-18 campaign, was promoted to an assistant coach in July 2019.
 
A standout guard, Moore played four seasons with the Hawks under current head coach John Gallagher from 2011-15. He led the Hawks to back-to-back 17-win seasons (2012-13, 2013-14) and the program’s first-ever Division I postseason appearance — a trip to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament in 2013.
 
During his career at Hartford, Moore started in 124 of the 125 games he appeared in, marking the second-most starts in program history behind Joe Zeglinski’s 135 (2006-11). Surpassing the 1,000-point plateau as a senior in 2015, the Austin, Texas, native’s name is inked throughout the Hawks’ record books, as he ranks No. 6 in assists (289) and No. 8 in minutes per game (31.6).  
 
In the classroom, Moore was a two-time America East Academic Honor Roll member in 2012 and 2013.
 
A 2015 graduate of Hartford, Moore received his degree in management from the Barney School of Business. He is currently pursuing his Master’s of Science in organizational psychology.
 
In the classroom, Moore was a two-time America East Academic Honor Roll member in 2012 and 2013.
 
A 2015 graduate of Hartford, Moore received his degree in management from the Barney School of Business. He is currently pursuing his Master’s of Science in organizational psychology. 

Andy Hurd enters his first season as a member of the Hartford men’s basketball team coaching staff in 2019-20. A local product of Windsor, Conn, Hurd joins the Hawks as the Director of Basketball Operations.
 
Hurd comes to Hartford by way of Pratt Community College in Kansas, where he was an assistant coach during the 2018-19 season. Prior to that stint, he spent one season as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Trinity College.
 
Starting his collegiate playing career at Central Connecticut State University where he played two years of basketball (2012-14), Hurd transferred to Trinity College for his final two seasons. He helped lead the Bantams to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances, including the team’s historic run to the Elite Eight in 2015, and was the team’s starting point guard as a senior captain in 2015-16.
 
Hurd spent the fall 2016 semester studying in Rome before graduating in December 2016 from Trinity with a degree in economics.
 
In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Hurd also has experience as a skill development trainer and an AAU coach in the Greater Hartford Area. He has worked at numerous camps over the past 10 years, including the John Gallagher’s “On The Floor” Basketball Camp, the Trinity College Nike Elite Basketball Camp, Howie Dickenman Basketball School, St. Bonaventure Basketball Camp and the Micah Lancaster’s “I’m Possible” Training Basketball Camp.