National Park College (NPC) Nighthawk men’s basketball head coach Dillon Hargrove
was named the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II Men’s
Basketball Coach of the Year this week.
In his fourth year as head coach at NPC, Hargrove’s Nighthawks impressed with 27 consecutive
wins to begin the season, spending seven weeks ranked No. 1 in the nation while capturing
back-to-back NJCAA Region II regular season championships.
Following the team’s lone loss in the NJCAA Region II Championship, NPC received an
at-large bid to its first NJCAA National Tournament as the No. 5 seed, where the Nighthawks
soared to the program’s first NJCAA Division 2 Men’s Basketball National Championship.
Hargrove’s list of accomplishments this season continues to grow. In addition to being
named NJCAA Region II Coach of the Year, Hargrove was named the 2023-24 NJCAA Division
2 Men’s Basketball Championship Coach of the Tournament and the 2023-24 National Association
of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Two-Year College Coach of the Year.
“This moment for Coach Hargrove and Nighthawk Nation has been years in the making,”
NPC Athletic Director Rich Thompson said. “Dillon has been an exceptional leader for
our program and we are pleased to call him our head coach. His leadership shines on
and off the court and we congratulate him on both his National Championship and this
award.”
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