Pat Estepp has been the men’s basketball head coach at Cedarville University since the 2008-09 campaign.
He has guided his alma mater to seven 20-win seasons and seven national tournament appearances including three NCCAA Championships.
His 2021-22 squad made the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division II Championship. Additionally, the Yellow Jackets won the first-ever G-MAC Tournament in 2013 and was the runner-up in both 2021 and 2022.
Estepp is a Division II congressman on the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Board of Directors and is one of just two DII coaches on the 23-member board.
He served as head coach of the East team at the 2023 NABC - Reese’s Division II College All Star Game.
Cedarville Career Coaching Record:
Overall Conference
W L Pct W L Pct Place
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2008-09 27 4 .871 12 1 .923 tie 1st
2009-10 26 9 .743 14 2 .875 2nd
2010-11 20 13 .606 13 5 .722 2nd
2011-12 23 9 .719 0 0 .000
2012-13 22 9 .710 5 1 .833 1st
2013-14 10 18 .357 7 7 .500 4th
2014-15 13 16 .448 9 5 .643 tie 3rd
2015-16 14 15 .483 5 7 .417 tie 4th
2016-17 13 16 .448 5 7 .417 5th
2017-18 13 14 .481 8 12 .400 9th
2018-19 21 12 .636 14 6 .700 4th
2019-20 18 11 .621 13 5 .722 tie 3rd
2020-21 12 9 .571 10 8 .556 6th
2021-22 19 13 .594 12 8 .600 6th
2022-23 18 11 .621 11 9 .550 tie 5th
2023-24 23 12 .657 13 7 .650 tie 3rd
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Totals 292 191 .605 151 90 .627
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Cedarville Honor Roll:
- NCCAA National Champions (2012, 2019, 2024)
- NCCAA Midwest Region Champions (2012)
- Great Midwest Athletic Conference Champions (2013)
- American Mideast Conference Co-Champions (2009)
- NABC Team Academic Excellence Award (2020, 2023, 2024)
- NCCAA National Coach of the Year (2012, 2019)
- NCCAA Midwest Region Coach of the Year (2009, 2019)
- G-MAC Coach of the Year (2013)
- AMC Coach of the Year (2009)
- 1 NAIA All-American
- 12 NCCAA All-Americans
- 3 NCCAA Pete Maravich Award winners
- 3 NCCAA National Tournament MVP’s
- 2 NCCAA Midwest Region Players of the Year
- 2 Conference Players of the Year
- 1 NAIA Scholar-Athlete
- 15 NCCAA Scholar-Athletes
- 34 NABC Honors Court players
- 33 All-Conference players
- 35 All-NCCAA Midwest Region players
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Estepp took on his current position after serving as an assistant coach for eight years under former head coach Ray Slagle. He played a key role during Slagle's successful tenure with the Yellow Jackets from 2000 to 2008.
Cedarville won 177 games during that timespan, averaged 24.1 wins over the last seven seasons, won three American Mideast Conference titles, and two AMC Tournament championships.
The Yellow Jackets made five trips to the NAIA Division II National Tournament where they never lost in the first round. They advanced to the semifinals once, the quarterfinals twice, and to the second round twice.
This is the first head coaching position for Estepp. A 1997 graduate of Cedarville College with a degree in physical education, he was a student assistant at the school during his senior year and went on to acquire coaching experience at all levels of basketball.
Estepp was the 8th grade coach at Cedarville Junior High School in 1996-97. He spent the next year at Clark County Christian High School in Kentucky where he was the varsity assistant boys basketball coach and the head coach in golf and tennis.
Estepp spent the 1998-99 season as the junior varsity coach at Oak Hill (Ohio) High School. He held the same position in 1999-2000 at South Webster (Ohio) High School which is where he graduated from in 1993.
Estepp comes from a rich basketball coaching heritage. His father, Dale, spent 27 years in the profession at Fairfield Union and South Webster high schools.
Estepp also has a master’s degree in education from Cedarville University that he earned in 2008. Pat and his wife, Melanie, reside in Clifton and have three children.
