Christian Murphy will begin his sixth season at MIT as part of head coach Larry Anderson's staff. This will be his third year as associate head coach. Murphy serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator, director of operations, director of player development, and director of the summer Basketball Academy at MIT.
While at MIT, Murphy recruited and coached back-to-back Rookie of the Years in the NEWMAC, Rome Delgado-Gonzalez in 2022-23, who was also named D3Hoops.com Region II Rookie of the Year, and Isaac Dobie in 2023-24, who led the NEWMAC in scoring, free-throws made an attempted. Murphy also coached Ian Hinkley (’22), the school’s all-time leading three-point scorer, who earned First Team All-NEWMAC and NABC Second Team All-District in his senior season. In addition, Murphy has coached twenty-five Academic All-Conference selections.
Prior to MIT, Murphy spent two seasons as a graduate assistant under Eric Musselman at the University of Nevada. The Wolf Pack made a NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in 2018 and were ranked as an AP Top 10 team in 2019. He spent four years as a student manager for the Butler Bulldogs under Brad Stevens and Chris Holtmann, where the program made three NCAA Round of 32 appearances. At the Division I level, Murphy worked with five future NBA players & twenty future pros, which included all-conference selections Caleb Martin, Cody Martin, Jordan Caroline, Kellen Dunham, Kelan Martin, Roosevelt Jones, and Rotnei Clarke.
In between Butler and Nevada, Murphy was assistant coach and head JV coach for Craig Douma at Central College. There he was responsible for the JV program, recruiting efforts for varsity, and initiating the program’s first alumni newsletters. During that season, Central ranked ninth in Division III for three-point field goals made. Senior Colby Taylor also became the school’s all-time leading scorer and was named First Team All-Conference, and D3hoops.com First-Team All-West Region.
Murphy received his bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership from Butler in 2016 and master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from Nevada in 2019.
