Boston College fires men’s basketball coach Earl Grant after 5 years, one winning season

Boston College has fired men’s basketball coach Earl Grant after five seasons, according to multiple reports.

BC hired Grant in spring 2021 after a successful seven-year run at the College of Charleston, where he compiled a 127-89 record and a 89-50 mark in conference play, leading the Cougars to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018. He was named the CAA Coach of the Year in 2017.

His tenure in Chestnut Hill proved more challenging. The Eagles never finished higher than 10th in the ACC standings under Grant and made just one postseason appearance — a trip to the NIT in 2024. The Eagles were 20-16 that season, the only winning season during Grant’s tenure.

Boston College was picked to finish last in the ACC heading into the 2025-26 season and ended up only ahead of Georgia Tech (which also fired its coach, Damon Stoudamire, on Sunday), with records of 11-20 overall and 4-14 in the ACC.

Despite the on-court struggles, Grant secured four of the program’s 10 highest-rated recruits and added transfer forward Quinten Post, whom the Golden State Warriors selected in the second round of the 2024 NBA Draft.

One of the four recruits is still in high school: four-star Trey Beamer, who held offers from Mississippi State, Virginia Tech, Maryland and many others. Whether he will stay with the new coach or find a new landing spot is unknown.

Grant, 49, spent time as an assistant coach at Clemson, Wichita State, Winthrop and The Citadel.