Women's Basketball
Box, Glenn
Glenn Box
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- gbox@iu.edu
- Phone:
- (812) 855-3013
- Instagram:
- glennboxjr
Glenn Box spent seven seasons on staff at Indiana from 2016-23, including the last four as associate head coach. Box was named the head coach of Miami (OH) women’s basketball on May 8, 2023.
During Box’s time with the Hoosiers, won 20 more games in all seven of his seasons and made seven postseason berths including five NCAA Tournament appearances. In those NCAA appearances, the Hoosiers have been to the second round all five times as it has made two Sweet Sixteens (2021, 2022) and advanced to the Elite Eight in 2020-21.
Under Box’s tutelage, 11 Hoosier guards have earned a total of 16 All-Big Ten honors including four-straight first team selections for Grace Berger (2019-23). Berger became the program’s first WNBA first round selection in 2023, as she went seventh overall to the Indiana Fever and was a xx All-American honorable mention in her five-year collegiate career. At Indiana, she scored 1,841 points, 573 assists and 752 rebounds. She ranks seventh all-time in scoring and second in all-time assists and averaged 12.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.1 steals and shot 45.2 percent from the floor. In the 2022-23 season, Box helped Indiana reach new heights again, claiming its first Big Ten regular season championship in 40 years. The team earned the program’s first No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and climbed as high as No. 2 in both national polls. The Hoosiers set a new program record for wins in a season (28) and tied the records for Big Ten wins in a season (16) while posting its seventh-straight 20-win season.
Box continues to help guide the Hoosiers’ defense, a calling card of the program. In 2022-23, they led the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense (38.7) and scoring defense (62.1) as Mackenzie Holmes became the program’s first Defensive Player of the Year and for the first time ever had two players on the All-Big Ten defensive team in Holmes and Chloe Moore-McNeil.
The 2021-22 Hoosiers continued its upward trajectory as it finished with an overall record of 24-9 and second-straight NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance. The Hoosiers advanced it its first Big Ten Tournament championship game in 20 years and earned its highest ever seed in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed while hosting first and second games in Bloomington. Indiana also spent the entire 2021-22 season ranked in the Top 25 national polls rising as high as No. 4 in the Associated Press and No. 5 in the USA Today/WBCA coaches poll. Defensively, IU finished third in the Big Ten in scoring defense, allowing just 61.8 points per game and held opponents to under 70 points until early February. In all, 27 opponents were held to 70 points or less and 15 foes scored 60 points or less.
Box was instrumental in the Hoosiers success in 2020-21, helping to lead the program to an NCAA Elite Eight appearance for the first time in school history and in the process knocking off top seeded North Carolina State. Indiana went on to finish 21-6 overall for its sixth-consecutive 20-win season and won a program record 16 games in Big Ten play to earn its highest finish in school history with a No. 2 seed. The program also spent every week of the regular season in the Top 25 and finished a program-high No. 12 in the AP poll and No. 10 in the coaches poll. Vital in the program’s defensive plan, Box’s instruction helped IU to allow just 59.9 points per game to opponents and finish second in the Big Ten in points allowed per game. In addition, he helped the Hoosiers to limit its first two NCAA opponents to just 80 combined points which set a new Big Ten record.
The 2019-20 squad would go on to finish with a program records with overall wins (24) and Big Ten wins (13). Indiana secured the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament for the second time since he joined the staff and made the Big Ten Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2006. Indiana also spent all 20 weeks of the season ranked in the Associated Press top 25, reaching a program record ranking of No. 12. They made history in the 2019 Paradise Jam where the Hoosiers upset then No. 5/6 South Carolina in the program’s first top five non-conference victory in school history.
He also instructed Patberg and Jaelynn Penn to All-Big Ten second team honors in 2018-19. Their performances helped lead Indiana to a NCAA Tournament at-large berth and the program’s fourth-straight 20-win season. Patberg and Penn were two of IU’s leading scorers during the campaign as Box has also been instrumental in developing the defensive play of guard Bendu Yeaney.
Box helped guide Indiana to the 2018 WNIT Championship and an overall record of 23-14 in the 2017-18 season. His instruction led guard Tyra Buss to her third-straight All-Big Ten First Team honors and second-straight WBCA All-American Honorable Mention nod. In the same seasons, Penn earned a place on the Big Ten All-Freshman team, the first for Indiana since 2014. Indiana once again set team records for most points scored in a season (2,595) as Buss broke seven school records to cap off her historic career.
He helped the Hoosiers to a historic season during his first year in 2016-17, advancing to the WNIT quarterfinals and a program-record 23 wins. It marked the first time in school history that IU has posted back-to-back 20-win seasons and the first back-to-back winning seasons since 2007-08 and 2008-09. In addition, the Hoosiers went 15-3 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, recording its fifth-consecutive winning season at home. Indiana also set single season program records for points scored (2,547), points per game (74.9) and assists (564). Box was also key in development of guards Alexis Gassion (All-Big Ten honorable mention, All-Defensive team) and Buss (WBCA All-American honorable mention, All-Big Ten first team).
Box arrived in Bloomington after spending the previous two seasons at Saint Louis University. Overall, he spent a total of four seasons in two stints with the Billikens, having also served as an assistant coach at SLU in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
In 2015-16, Box helped SLU set program records for overall wins (26-8), conference wins (13-3), overall winning percentage (.765), conference winning percentage (.813), home wins (24) and road victories (10) as the Billikens won a share of the program’s first ever Atlantic 10 Conference championship. Saint Louis was the No. 2 seed for the A-10 Championship, its highest seed ever, and SLU reached the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time in school history.
Under Box’s watch, SLU sophomore Jackie Kemph became the program’s first player to earn All-America honors as she received honorable mention distinction from the Associated Press and the school’s first conference Player of the Year. Kemph also was named to the A-10 All-Academic Team and earned Academic All-District laurels. Along with Kemph, Box played a role in two additional Saint Louis student-athletes who earned all-conference honors in 2015-16.
Prior to his second stint at Saint Louis, Box coached two years at Akron in 2012-13 and 2013-14. During his tenure, the Zips played in the 2014 NCAA Tournament after winning the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship in 2014. In 2012-13, Akron won the East Division of the MAC going 14-4 in conference play.
At Akron, Box played a role in five players earning All-MAC honors in two seasons, including the school’s first ever Mid-American Conference Player of the Year in 2013 in Rachel Tecca.
Before his first stop in Saint Louis in 2010, Box spent two years on the sideline as an assistant at Western Michigan. Prior to that, he spent six seasons at Rend Lake College, a junior college in Ina. Ill. He spent his first three years at Rend Lake as an assistant with the men’s program before moving on to become head coach of the women’s team.
A native of Cairo, Ill., Box posted a 64-31 record and downed four nationally ranked opponents during his three years as head coach. In 2007-08, Rend Lake went 21-11 and reached as high at No. 16 in the NJCAA national poll. He guided the Lady Warriors to a 24-8 ledger in 2006-07, the second-most victories in school history, while finishing in the top 25 in the country in scoring, field goal percentage, 3-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage.
Box earned his associate’s degree in elementary education at Rend Lake in 1996 and went on to obtain his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Southeast Missouri State in 1998. He began his coaching career in the Cairo school district before entering the college ranks.
Box is married to Leah and has four children, two sons, Darius and William, and daughters, Auna and Bella.
During Box’s time with the Hoosiers, won 20 more games in all seven of his seasons and made seven postseason berths including five NCAA Tournament appearances. In those NCAA appearances, the Hoosiers have been to the second round all five times as it has made two Sweet Sixteens (2021, 2022) and advanced to the Elite Eight in 2020-21.
Under Box’s tutelage, 11 Hoosier guards have earned a total of 16 All-Big Ten honors including four-straight first team selections for Grace Berger (2019-23). Berger became the program’s first WNBA first round selection in 2023, as she went seventh overall to the Indiana Fever and was a xx All-American honorable mention in her five-year collegiate career. At Indiana, she scored 1,841 points, 573 assists and 752 rebounds. She ranks seventh all-time in scoring and second in all-time assists and averaged 12.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.1 steals and shot 45.2 percent from the floor. In the 2022-23 season, Box helped Indiana reach new heights again, claiming its first Big Ten regular season championship in 40 years. The team earned the program’s first No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and climbed as high as No. 2 in both national polls. The Hoosiers set a new program record for wins in a season (28) and tied the records for Big Ten wins in a season (16) while posting its seventh-straight 20-win season.
Box continues to help guide the Hoosiers’ defense, a calling card of the program. In 2022-23, they led the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense (38.7) and scoring defense (62.1) as Mackenzie Holmes became the program’s first Defensive Player of the Year and for the first time ever had two players on the All-Big Ten defensive team in Holmes and Chloe Moore-McNeil.
The 2021-22 Hoosiers continued its upward trajectory as it finished with an overall record of 24-9 and second-straight NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance. The Hoosiers advanced it its first Big Ten Tournament championship game in 20 years and earned its highest ever seed in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed while hosting first and second games in Bloomington. Indiana also spent the entire 2021-22 season ranked in the Top 25 national polls rising as high as No. 4 in the Associated Press and No. 5 in the USA Today/WBCA coaches poll. Defensively, IU finished third in the Big Ten in scoring defense, allowing just 61.8 points per game and held opponents to under 70 points until early February. In all, 27 opponents were held to 70 points or less and 15 foes scored 60 points or less.
Box was instrumental in the Hoosiers success in 2020-21, helping to lead the program to an NCAA Elite Eight appearance for the first time in school history and in the process knocking off top seeded North Carolina State. Indiana went on to finish 21-6 overall for its sixth-consecutive 20-win season and won a program record 16 games in Big Ten play to earn its highest finish in school history with a No. 2 seed. The program also spent every week of the regular season in the Top 25 and finished a program-high No. 12 in the AP poll and No. 10 in the coaches poll. Vital in the program’s defensive plan, Box’s instruction helped IU to allow just 59.9 points per game to opponents and finish second in the Big Ten in points allowed per game. In addition, he helped the Hoosiers to limit its first two NCAA opponents to just 80 combined points which set a new Big Ten record.
The 2019-20 squad would go on to finish with a program records with overall wins (24) and Big Ten wins (13). Indiana secured the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament for the second time since he joined the staff and made the Big Ten Tournament semifinals for the first time since 2006. Indiana also spent all 20 weeks of the season ranked in the Associated Press top 25, reaching a program record ranking of No. 12. They made history in the 2019 Paradise Jam where the Hoosiers upset then No. 5/6 South Carolina in the program’s first top five non-conference victory in school history.
He also instructed Patberg and Jaelynn Penn to All-Big Ten second team honors in 2018-19. Their performances helped lead Indiana to a NCAA Tournament at-large berth and the program’s fourth-straight 20-win season. Patberg and Penn were two of IU’s leading scorers during the campaign as Box has also been instrumental in developing the defensive play of guard Bendu Yeaney.
Box helped guide Indiana to the 2018 WNIT Championship and an overall record of 23-14 in the 2017-18 season. His instruction led guard Tyra Buss to her third-straight All-Big Ten First Team honors and second-straight WBCA All-American Honorable Mention nod. In the same seasons, Penn earned a place on the Big Ten All-Freshman team, the first for Indiana since 2014. Indiana once again set team records for most points scored in a season (2,595) as Buss broke seven school records to cap off her historic career.
He helped the Hoosiers to a historic season during his first year in 2016-17, advancing to the WNIT quarterfinals and a program-record 23 wins. It marked the first time in school history that IU has posted back-to-back 20-win seasons and the first back-to-back winning seasons since 2007-08 and 2008-09. In addition, the Hoosiers went 15-3 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, recording its fifth-consecutive winning season at home. Indiana also set single season program records for points scored (2,547), points per game (74.9) and assists (564). Box was also key in development of guards Alexis Gassion (All-Big Ten honorable mention, All-Defensive team) and Buss (WBCA All-American honorable mention, All-Big Ten first team).
Box arrived in Bloomington after spending the previous two seasons at Saint Louis University. Overall, he spent a total of four seasons in two stints with the Billikens, having also served as an assistant coach at SLU in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
In 2015-16, Box helped SLU set program records for overall wins (26-8), conference wins (13-3), overall winning percentage (.765), conference winning percentage (.813), home wins (24) and road victories (10) as the Billikens won a share of the program’s first ever Atlantic 10 Conference championship. Saint Louis was the No. 2 seed for the A-10 Championship, its highest seed ever, and SLU reached the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time in school history.
Under Box’s watch, SLU sophomore Jackie Kemph became the program’s first player to earn All-America honors as she received honorable mention distinction from the Associated Press and the school’s first conference Player of the Year. Kemph also was named to the A-10 All-Academic Team and earned Academic All-District laurels. Along with Kemph, Box played a role in two additional Saint Louis student-athletes who earned all-conference honors in 2015-16.
Prior to his second stint at Saint Louis, Box coached two years at Akron in 2012-13 and 2013-14. During his tenure, the Zips played in the 2014 NCAA Tournament after winning the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship in 2014. In 2012-13, Akron won the East Division of the MAC going 14-4 in conference play.
At Akron, Box played a role in five players earning All-MAC honors in two seasons, including the school’s first ever Mid-American Conference Player of the Year in 2013 in Rachel Tecca.
Before his first stop in Saint Louis in 2010, Box spent two years on the sideline as an assistant at Western Michigan. Prior to that, he spent six seasons at Rend Lake College, a junior college in Ina. Ill. He spent his first three years at Rend Lake as an assistant with the men’s program before moving on to become head coach of the women’s team.
A native of Cairo, Ill., Box posted a 64-31 record and downed four nationally ranked opponents during his three years as head coach. In 2007-08, Rend Lake went 21-11 and reached as high at No. 16 in the NJCAA national poll. He guided the Lady Warriors to a 24-8 ledger in 2006-07, the second-most victories in school history, while finishing in the top 25 in the country in scoring, field goal percentage, 3-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage.
Box earned his associate’s degree in elementary education at Rend Lake in 1996 and went on to obtain his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Southeast Missouri State in 1998. He began his coaching career in the Cairo school district before entering the college ranks.
Box is married to Leah and has four children, two sons, Darius and William, and daughters, Auna and Bella.
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