David Danzig was elevated to head men’s basketball coach in July 2022 after one season as an assistant and also serves as the department’s recruiting coordinator. A former point guard at Haverford College, Danzig is known for player development and teaching cohesive, disciplined team defense.

Now in his fourth season in 2025-26, Danzig has guided the Cannoneers through their transition to full NCAA Division III membership and into the Atlantic East Conference in 2024-25. In the program’s first Atlantic East campaign, Pratt earned back-to-back February wins over Centenary and Marywood and closed the year with the league’s Rookie of the Year in first-year guard Thomas Graetz, who averaged 10.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists in conference play.

Danzig’s 2023-24 group posted an 8-17 mark and advanced to the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference quarterfinals as the No. 5 seed. The Cannoneers went 7-3 at home and collected two All-C2C selections: senior guard Patrick O’Gorman (first team), who led the league in assists (4.4) and free-throw percentage (87.7), and first-year guard Cameron Windt (second team), who led the conference in scoring (17.4) and hit two game-winners.

In 2022-23, Danzig steered Pratt through its first season as a full NCAA Division III member, recording signature wins over Sarah Lawrence and St. Joseph’s-Long Island and earning a berth to the C2C Championship quarterfinals. He mentored a pair of All-C2C second-team honorees in O’Gorman—who reached 1,000 career points that February—and forward Cameron Hatcher, the league’s 2022 Rookie of the Year.

Before Pratt, Danzig was an assistant in Germany’s Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the country’s top professional league. He worked under three-time Coach of the Year John Patrick in two stints with s.Oliver Würzburg (2011-12) and Riesen Ludwigsburg (2013-15), helping coach future and former NBA players including Maxi Kleber, Royce O’Neale, DJ Kennedy, Jon Brockman and Coby Karl.

Danzig spent the 2016-17 season at Division I Saint Peter’s University as an assistant under John Dunne, helping the Peacocks win the 2017 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. Prior to Saint Peter’s, he was on Hall of Famer Bob Hurley’s staff at Saint Anthony High School, contributing to a 32-0 season, a New Jersey state title and a No. 3 national ranking by USA Today. He has also coached at Mission High School (San Francisco) and Edmund Burke School (Washington, D.C.).