Lycoming College

Mark Linebaugh is set for his fourth season as the Lycoming College men's basketball coach in 2025-26.

In three years at Lycoming, Linebaugh has mentored four all-conference picks, nine NABC Honors Court selections, one CSC Academic All-District pick and one NABC all-region selection. His teams earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Awards for the first two times in program history and the 2022-23 team was honored with the Sam Schoenfeld Sportsmanship Award from the Harrisburg chapter of the Collegiate Basketball Officials of America.
 
The Warriors finished 16-10 overall and 11-5, good for second in the MAC Freedom, during Linebaugh's first season in Lamade Gym, as he mentored three all-conference selections, including first-team all-conference and all-region center Dyson Harward. 

Linebaugh, an Annville, Pa., native, came to Lycoming with 11 years of experience on NCAA coaching staffs, working for six years at the NCAA Division I level and five years in Division III.
  
Linebaugh served a season as the assistant coach at Dickinson College in 2021-22, where he worked on the Centennial Conference Coaching Staff of the Year with head coach Al Seretti. Predicted to finish ninth in the conference poll, the Red Devils finished fourth with a 10-8 conference mark.
 
Prior to that, Linebaugh spent three years as an assistant coach at Conference USA school Rice University. The team’s offensive and recruiting coordinator, Linebaugh helped the Owls go from seven wins his first year to 15 in his third in 2019-20, as he was active in all aspects of practice planning, game strategy and player development under Scott Pera.
 
Linebaugh served as an assistant coach at Hobart College from 2014-17, where he was active in all areas of the program and helped the team reach the conference title game in 2016-17 under head coach Tim Sweeney.
 
He also served three seasons as the Director of Basketball Operations at Colgate University from 2011-14 under head coach Matt Langel, where he served as the team’s travel, community service and schedule coordinator. Linebaugh served on staff with Langel, a three-time Patriot League Coach of the Year, Mike Jordan, the former head coach at Lafayette, Mike McGarvey, former Lycoming head coach and head coach at Lafayette, and Dave Klatsky, the head coach at NYU.
 
Prior to that, Linebaugh spent three years as the head coach at Annville-Cleona High School, where he posted a 45-30 record in three seasons, leading the team to a 21-7 record in his final year, 2010-11, earning Lancaster-Lebanon League Section IV Coach of the Year honors.
 
He began his collegiate coaching career with a season at Dickinson in 2007-08.
 
Linebaugh also spent three years playing professional basketball in Denmark, transitioning to become the head coach of the Falcon Basketklubben from 2005-07. He also served as the head women’s coach for Falcon in 2007, earning the Dameligan Coach of the Year honors.
 
Linebaugh was a four-year letterwinner at Colgate, finishing his career among the top-10 all-time leading scorers with 1,349 points. Linebaugh was also named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year (2000-01) and to the All-League second team twice (2002-03 and 2003-04). At Annville-Cleona High School, he helped the Dutchmen win the Class AA boys’ basketball title in double overtime in 1999.
 
A 2004 graduate of Colgate University, Linebaugh earned a Bachelor of Arts in educational studies.
 

The Linebaugh File
Hometown: Annville, Pa.
Education
2004	Bachelor of Arts - Educational Studies	Colgate University
Basketball Experience
2000-04	Colgate University	Patriot League
2004-07	Falcon Basketklubben	Danish First Division
Coaching Experience
2005-07	Falcon Basketklubben	Head Men's & Women's Coach
2007-08	Dickinson College	Assistant Men's Basketball Coach
2008-11	Annville High School	Head Boys' Basketball Coach
2011-14	Colgate University	Director of Basketball Operations
2014-17	Hobart College	Assistant Men's Basketball Coach
2017-21	Rice University	Assistant Men's Basketball Coach
2021-22	Dickinson College	Assistant Men's Basketball Coach
2022-Pres.	Lycoming College	Head Men's Basketball Coach
Honors & Awards
2001	Patriot League Rookie of the Year
2003	Second Team All-Patriot League
2004	Second Team All-Patriot League
2007	Dameligan Women's Coach of the Year
2011	Lancaster-Lebanon League Section IV Coach of the Year

Linebaugh Year-By-Year
Year	W	L	Pct.	Note
2022-23	16	10	.615	Team finished second in the MAC Freedom
2023-24	9	16	.360	Team earns NABC Team Academic Excellence Award for second straight year
2024-25	3	22	.120	Four players averaged double-figure scoring
Total	28	48	.368