Earl Grant enters his third season as Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Boston College.  Throughout his first two seasons at the Heights, Grant has established a culture of gritty and relentless play on the court, combined with selfless humility family atmosphere, and holistic development as people and players off the court. Grant guided BC to 16 wins during the 2022-23 season, including nine in ACC play.  As a result, BC and Grant extended their partnership through the 2028-29 season.  During the 2022-23 campaign, Grant’s gritty group tallied three wins over nationally ranked opponents, including a 763-48 drubbing of No. 6 Virginia  - the first win over a top 10 team in nearly six seasons.  Led by ACC Most Improved Player Quinten Post, Boston College won nine games in ACC play - the most since the 2010-11 campaign.  Four of the Eagles nine ACC wins came on the road - the highest win total in away games since 2008-09. In his first season, Grant’s Eagles advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2022 New York Life ACC Tournament in Brooklyn, narrowly missing a trip to the semis after a two-point overtime loss to Elite Eight participant Miami. Grant also orchestrated one of the highest-rated recruiting classes in program history, signing two four-star ranked players in the same class for the first time ever.  The incoming class of newcomers ranked 30th nationally by Rivals.com and 33rd by 247sports.com.

On March 17, 2021 Grant was introduced as Boston College’s head men’s basketball coach, bringing an impressive track record to Chestnut Hill after he turned the College of Charleston men’s basketball program into a consistent championship contender in the Colonial Athletic Association.Under Grant’s leadership, the College of Charleston was one of only 21 NCAA Division I schools to have players drafted in both the 2019 and 2020 NBA Drafts. Grant led the Cougars to a top-four finish in the CAA in each of the last five seasons, including the 2018 regular season and conference tournament championship.  A finalist for the 2019 Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award, presented annually to a coach who not only achieves success on the basketball court, but who also displays moral integrity off the court, Grant led the Cougars to a memorable run in 2017-18 that included the program’s second-straight 25-win campaign, an impressive 26-8 overall record and 14-4 mark in Colonial Athletic Association play. The co-regular-season champions earned the No. 1 seed in the CAA Men’s Basketball Championship and defeated No. 2 seed Northeastern in an overtime thriller to punch the program’s first ticket to the NCAA Tournament since 1999.Grant guided the Cougars to three 20-win campaigns and a 67-22 home-court winning record over the previous six years and produced 12 all-conference honorees.For the first time in program history, College of Charleston’s men’s basketball was recognized by the NCAA for the 2018-19 academic year. Under the guidance of Grant, the programs’ four-year rolling APR was in the Top 10% of all men’s basketball programs in the country. The Cougars were one of only 51 men’s basketball programs honored nationally. In all, 24 players have gone on to earn their degree at The College.