Nate Haller will be entering his third season as an assistant coach on the men’s basketball staff at Denison University for the 2025-26 season.
The 2024-25 season was historic for the Big Red, as they finished with a program record 24 wins en route to their first NCAC Tournament Championship since the 2015-16 season and their first NCAC Regular Season Championship in program history. The team ended up finishing 24-4 and 14-2 in conference play. After a hot start going 5-1, the Big Red rattled off 12 straight wins in what would be their longest winning streak in program history. They would continue their momentum into the conference tournament, winning their semifinal game in a close 74-70 brawl with Ohio Wesleyan. In the conference championship game, they faced off against Wooster, whom they had split with earlier in the season, and got the edge early to win 79-68 to secure not only a conference tournament championship, but a bid to the NCAA Tournament First Round. The Big Red faced off against Franklin College in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, and after a back-and-forth battle that needed to go into overtime to decide a winner, Franklin came out on top with a three-point win, 67-64. Three members of the team were honored with All-NCAC, as Ricky Radtke secured First Team All-NCAC honors for the first time in his career, Trevor Reed notched Second Team honors, and Darren Rubin rounded out the group receiving Third Team honors.
Haller graduated from Denison in 2020 with his Bachelor's degree in economics and a minor in communication. Haller played in 50 games throughout his time as a member of the Big Red men's basketball team and was named to the NABC Honors Court after both the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons.
Haller averaged a career-high 4.4 points per game as a junior while as a senior in 2019-20, he averaged 3.8 points and 1.3 rebounds per game and scored a career-high 15 points in Denison's regular-season finale victory over Ohio Wesleyan (96-81) on February 22.
