Jesse Flannery

Biography

A familiar name to Bison basketball fans, Jesse Flannery joined John Griffin's coaching staff in 2023-24. The son of Bucknell Athletics Hall-of-Fame coach Pat Flannery enjoyed a stellar playing career at Johns Hopkins and is now making his own mark in the collegiate coaching ranks. In his first year back in his hometown, Griffin helped lead the Bison to a T-2nd finish in the Patriot League last season. After finishing 10-8 in league play, the Bison won a Patriot League Tournament quarterfinal game on the road at American and then took three-time defending champion Colgate to the final buzzer in a three-point loss in the semifinals. After graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2018, Flannery spent two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth under Mike Rhodes and was part of a Rams squad that won the Atlantic 10 regular-season title and received a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Flannery spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Amherst before joining the staff at Army West Point in the Patriot League prior to last season. He was part of winning teams at both spots, and last season he helped the Black Knights to the No. 4 seed in the Patriot League Tournament, where they won a quarterfinal home game in overtime against Boston University. After an outstanding career locally at Lewisburg Area High School, Flannery went on to play in over 100 games and two NCAA Division III Tournaments at Johns Hopkins. He was part of an NCAA Sweet Sixteen team in 2015, and he captai