Kyle Brumett joined the storied Wabash College basketball program as head coach in 2014.
Brumett enters his 11th season as head men’s basketball coach at Wabash College, where he has guided the Little Giants into consistent North Coast Athletic Conference and NCAA Division III championship contention. Brumett owns a 184-102 record at Wabash through the 2024–25 season and has compiled a 320-181 overall record in 19 seasons as a head coach.
In 2024–25, Brumett led the Little Giants to a 17-9 record, finishing second in the NCAC with a 113-3 conference mark. Wabash reached the semifinal round of the NCAC Tournament after defeating Oberlin in the quarterfinals before falling to Wooster in a tightly contested matchup.
Brumett’s program has thrived in recent years, highlighted by a historic 2021–22 campaign that saw the Little Giants reach the NCAA Tournament semifinals with wins over Berry, Emory, Williams, and Illinois Wesleyan. That team went 28-4 overall, secured its first-ever NCAC Tournament championship, and earned Brumett the NCAC Coach of the Year award. Jack Davidson, a senior on that squad, won the Jostens Trophy as Division III’s top player and was recognized as a consensus All-American.
In 2022–23, Wabash defended its NCAC Tournament crown, while the 2023–24 team finished 20-9 overall with both the NCAC regular season and tournament titles, extending Brumett’s run of NCAA appearances to three straight seasons and earning NCAC Coaching Staff of the Year honors for the second time in three years.
Earlier in his Wabash tenure, Brumett steered the program to a 21-6 record in 2018–19, the school’s first 20-win season since 2011, and elevated Wabash among the nation’s best in free-throw shooting, turnovers per game, and rebounding margin.
Prior to arriving in Crawfordsville, Brumett coached at Defiance College, where he built a 103-57 record across six seasons, winning the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championship and securing an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2010. His first head coaching stop came at Lakeland College, where he guided the Muskies to a 33-22 mark in two seasons, including a 2008 Northern Athletics Conference title.
Brumett’s early coaching career featured assistant roles at DePauw University — where he helped the Tigers to multiple NCAA Tournament berths and Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships — and at the University of Southern Indiana, a team ranked No. 1 for much of his season there.
A native of Jeffersonville, Indiana, Brumett graduated from Hanover College in 1998 with a degree in physical education and earned a master’s degree in recreation and sports management from Indiana State University in 2004. He and his wife, Steffanie, are the parents of three sons: Max -- a freshman at Wabash --, Marcus, and Monte.
Kyle Brumett’s Coaching Record (320-181 overall (19 seasons)
Head Coach, Lakeland College Muskies (33-22 overall; two seasons)
2006-07 — 16-11 overall
2007-08 — 17-11 overall
Head Coach, Defiance College Yellow Jackets (103-57 overall; six seasons)
2008-09 — 18-9 overall
2009-10 — 23-6 overall
2010-11 — 13-12 overall
2011-12 — 13-13 overall
2012-13 — 16-11 overall
2013-14 — 20-6 overall
Head Coach, Wabash College Little Giants (184-102 overall, 114-59 NCAC; 11 seasons)
2014-15 — 18-9 overall — 12-6 NCAC (3rd place)
2015-16 — 13-13 overall — 7-11 NCAC (T-7th place)
2016-17 — 11-15 overall — 7-11 NCAC (7th place)
2017-18 — 12-14 overall — 8-10 NCAC (6th place)
2018-19 — 21-6 overall — 14-4 NCAC (T-2nd place)
2019-20 — 17-9 overall — 13-5 NCAC (2nd place)
2020-21 — 6-6 overall — (no NCAC schedule)
2021-22 — 28-4 overall — 16-1 NCAC (1st place); NCAC Tournament champion; NCAA Division III Tournament semifinalist; NCAC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year; D3hoops.com Region 7 Coach of the Year
2022-23 — 21-8 overall — 11-5 NCAC (2nd place); NCAC Tournament champion; NCAA Division III Tournament berth
2023-24 — 20-9 overall — 13-3 NCAC (1st place); NCAC Tournament champion; NCAA Division III Tournament berth; NCAC Men's Basketball Coaching Staff of the Year
2024-25 — 17-9 overall — 13-3 NCAC (2nd place)
