Kyle Neptune was named head men’s basketball coach at Fordham University on March 30, 2021.
 
Neptune arrives at Rose Hill after eight seasons as an assistant coach at Villanova University. During those eight years, the Wildcats enjoyed unprecedented success, averaging over 29 wins per season and capturing four BIG EAST tournament titles and a pair of NCAA national championships.
 
Neptune helped the Wildcats advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2020-2021, when they fell to top-seeded Baylor, closing out the COVID-shortened season with an 18-7 record. 
 
In May of 2020, Neptune was recognized as a rising star of coaching's next generation by ESPN as he was named to the ESPN “40 Under 40” list.
 
In 2019-20, the Wildcats posted a 24-7 record and share of the BIG EAST regular season championship – their sixth such title in the last eight seasons – before the postseason was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
In March 2019 the Cats became the first team in league history to claim three consecutive BIG EAST Tournament titles. This was achieved despite the departure of the top four scorers from the 2018 NCAA national championship team – Mikal Bridges, Donte DiVincenzo, Omari Spellman and Jalen Brunson. Those four were among seven recent Wildcats to see action during the 2019-20 NBA season (Ryan Arcidiacono, Josh Hart and Eric Paschall were the others).
 
In 2017-18, the Wildcats amassed a school record 36 victories and secured Villanova’s third NCAA national championship with a 79-62 victory over Michigan on April 2, 2018. Brunson became Villanova’s first consensus National Player of the Year in the modern era, joining Paul Arizin as the only VU players to earn that distinction. In 2016, Villanova defeated North Carolina 77-74 when Kris Jenkins drained a 3-pointer at the buzz to cap a 35-5 campaign with an NCAA national title.

Before his eight years at Villanova, Neptune served three seasons as an assistant coach at Niagara University (2010-13) and accompanied former Niagara head coach Joe Mihalich to Hofstra University in the months before accepting his position at Villanova. The 2012-2013 Niagara team went 19-14 and earned a bid to the NIT.
 
No stranger to Villanova, Neptune previously served the Wildcats from 2008-10 as the administrative intern/video coordinator and was a part of the staff that helped lead VU to the 2009 NCAA Final Four in Detroit.
 
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Neptune played four seasons of college basketball at Lehigh University where he served as a team captain in his senior year of 2006-07. The Mountain Hawks claimed the 2004 Patriot League title during Neptune's freshman campaign. As a junior, Neptune logged 33 minutes as a Lehigh starting forward when the Mountain Hawks played Villanova in November of 2005 at the Pavilion.
 
A native of Brooklyn, Neptune attended Brooklyn Friends School where he was a member of the School’s 2003 State Champion Boys Varsity Basketball Team and scored 1,650 points in his time as a Panther, the most recorded in the School’s history.