Brett Ervin is in his second season as an assistant coach. Ervin’s responsibilities include player development, recruiting, scouting, and advising. Ervin works closely with the low post players and helped Greg Kuakumensah to increases in points per game, rebounds per game, assists per game, blocks per game, and field goal percentage during the 2019-20 season.
Ervin helped the 2019-20 Purple Eagles to top-25 national rankings in fewest turnovers per game, fewest turnovers, turnover margin, and 3-point field goal percentage. Niagara won a game in the MAAC Tournament for the first time in three seasons.
Before Niagara, Ervin spent three seasons on the coaching staff at Le Moyne and had a successful season as the lead assistant coach at West Liberty University.
Ervin served as a graduate assistant from 2015-17, where he assisted with practice plans, on-court instruction, recruiting, and scouting. He also organized team travel, film exchange, and individual skill instruction and monitored student-athlete academic progress. The 2016-17 team won the Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division championship for the first time in the program’s history and earned the top seed in the East Region of the NCAA Championships. The 2018-19 team claimed the Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division title and made another appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
Ervin was the lead assistant coach for the West Liberty University Hilltoppers, an NCAA Division II program in West Virginia, for the 2017-18 season where he was responsible for all aspects of the operations of the program.
Ervin helped guide the Hilltoppers to a 26-4 record, the Mountain East Conference regular-season title and the No. 4 seed in the NCAA Championships Atlantic Region. West Liberty led the nation in scoring (105.2 ppg.), turnover margin (+8.0/game), assists (20.8/game), and assist/turnover ratio (+1.98) while ranking among the top-five nationally in 12 statistical categories.
In April 2018, he was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches' 2017-18 Under Armour 30-Under-30 honor roll, which recognizes up-and-coming coaches in men's college basketball under the age of 30.
Ervin played his first three seasons of collegiate basketball at Elon University, an NCAA Division I program in Elon, North Carolina. He completed his career playing at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Ervin averaged 12.1 points and 4.0 rebounds per game, while connecting on 92 three-pointers, the second-most in the Mountain East Conference and the 13th-most in Division II, en route to a 20-12 record.
A native of West Virginia, Ervin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from West Virginia Wesleyan in 2014, a master’s degree in sports management from West Virginia University in August 2016, and an MBA from Le Moyne in December 2017.
