Dan Bowen Last College: Bucknell '00 Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 2nd Year

Dan Bowen, a 2000 Bucknell graduate and a former standout center on the Bison men's basketball team, returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach prior to the 2006-07 season.

The 1997 Patriot League Rookie of the Year and a First Team All-Patriot League pick in 1999 and 2000, Bowen previously served on men's basketball staffs at the University of Scranton, Marist College and Randolph-Macon College.

A 6'9" center, Bowen was one of the best and most durable big men ever to play at Bucknell. He is one of only nine players in school history to record over 1,000 points (1,193) and 700 rebounds (711). He played in 113 career games in four years, starting all but one, and on Bucknell's all-time charts he currently ranks 15th in scoring, 10th in rebounding, fifth in field-goal percentage (.544) and second in blocked shots (160).

As a senior, Bowen led the Bison in scoring (15.7 ppg), rebounding (7.6 rpg), field-goal percentage (.515) and blocked shots (1.59 bpg). That year he was named to the all-conference first team for the second straight year, and he earned the Orange & Blue Award in recognition of "exceptional athletic achievement and contribution to Bucknell athletics." A team co-captain in 1999-2000, Bowen was a two-time recipient of the Benton Kribbs Award as team MVP.

A native of Manchester, N.H., Bowen broke into the collegiate coaching ranks in 2001 at Scranton under head coach Carl Danzig, a former Bucknell assistant coach. In 2002-03 he helped lead the Royals to a 24-6 record and berth in the NCAA Division III Sweet Sixteen.

Following that season Bowen was hired as an assistant coach at Marist in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, where he spent one season before returning to Scranton in 2004-05. Last year Bowen moved on to Randolph-Macon, where he helped the Yellow Jackets to a 22-7 record and an NCAA Tournament berth. At RMC, Bowen worked under head coach Mike Rhoades, who starred on Pat Flannery's Division III national championship team at Lebanon Valley in 1994.