Tom Tankelewicz

Biography

Tom Tankelewicz is in his second season as an assistant coach at New Mexico in 2026-27. He joined the Lobo coaching staff after spending the previous three seasons on Eric Olen’s staff at UC San Diego. In his first season on the Lobo staff in 2025-26, Tankelewicz helped UNM win 26 games and reach the NIT semifinals. New Mexico finished in the top 50 of the NET and KenPom and set a school record with 3,004 points scored. During his three seasons as an assistant coach at UC San Diego, Tankelewicz helped lead a Triton offense in 2024-25 that led the Big West and ranked in the top 30 nationally in assist/turnover ratio (4th, 1.80) and effective field goal percentage (29th, .555). Last season, he coached Big West Player of the Year Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones to a Division I school-record 670 points and Tyler McGhie to a school-record 117 three-pointers. Prior to coming to UCSD, Tankelewicz spent the 2021-22 season at Presbyterian, helping lead the Blue Hose to the best non-conference record in school history. He spent five seasons on the staff at UNC Greensboro from 2017-21, as the Spartans had five consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in program history. UNCG won two SoCon regular season titles, two SoCon Tournament titles, made two NCAA Tournament appearances and two NIT appearances during his time on Wes Miller’s staff. Tankelewicz played collegiately at Western Carolina, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 2014. He made 179 3-pointers during his career, including le