Tim Welsh spent three seasons as head coach of the Iona College men’s basketball team from the start of the 1995-96 season through the 1997-98 after coaching 10 games at the end of the 1994-95 campaign on an interim basis. In the three full seasons, Welsh posted the highest winning percentage (.761) in program history behind a 70-22 record.

In all three seasons with Welsh at the helm, the Maroon & Gold captured the MAAC regular season title. The success culminated with the 1998 MAAC Tournament Championship title, the first for the program since 1985.

The Gaels appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in Welsh’s first two seasons, hosting St. Joseph’s in 1996 before traveling to face UConn in 1997. Behind the MAAC Title in 1998, Iona dropped a heartbreaking two-point setback to Syracuse in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament.

Welsh earned MAAC Coach of the Year honors in 1996-97 and 1997-98 behind a combined 49 victories in the two seasons. He also coached the MAAC Player of the Year in both of those years as Mindaugas Timinskas and Kashif Hameed were celebrated in respective seasons.