Monaghan begins his first season with the Pokes and his 19th overall at the collegiate level. In June 2024 he was selected to attend Top Connect Basketball Symposium in Las Vegas, NV. While in May 2022 he was selected to attend the Jay Bilas Coaches Leadership Program. Both programs are designed to identify and develop up-and-coming assistants who have the potential to be Division I College Head Coaches.Â
In his lone season in Green Bay he helped the Phoenix win 18 games, the most regular season wins since the 2016-17 season. Green Bay also achieved Horizon League success, winning 13 HL games for the first time since the 2013-14 season, and finishing third for the first time since 2019-20.
In addition to Green Bay's team success, Monaghan also helped guide numerous players to award-winning seasons. Lead guard Noah Reynolds was named the Horizon League Newcomer of the Year, All-Horizon League First Team, and NABC District 12 All-Region First Team after an outstanding season. For the first time in program history, Green Bay also saw two freshmen named to the Horizon League All-Freshman Team, David Douglas Jr. (Freshman of the Year) and Marcus Hall.
In total, the Phoenix went 18-14 in 2023-24 after a 3-29 season in (2023-24). That 15 game turnaround is tied for ninth-best turnaround in NCAA DI history. The 13 Horizon League wins is also the most by a first-year head coach in Green Bay men's basketball history.
Success has followed Monaghan to all previous stops. Previously, before Green Bay he spent four years at Southern Illinois, helping the Salukis to a 67-55 record from (2019-23), which included 23 wins in 2022-23, the most in program history since the 2006-07 season.
Monaghan was influential in the recruitment and development of Marcus Domask, who had one the best freshman seasons in Southern Illinois history, earning Freshman All-America honors, along with the league's Freshman and Newcomer of the Year awards. Domask was one of only four freshmen in the nation to average at least 13.5 points, 5 rebounds, and 2.5 steals.
Monaghan was also instrumental in signing one of the best recruiting classes in school history. Troy D'Amico and Scottie Ebube were both ranked as top-10 players in the state of Illinois, and D'Amico was the highest-rated in-state recruit to sign with SIU since 2008. Foster Wonders, the runner-up for Michigan Mr. Basketball in 2021 and the No. 5 ranked player in the state of Michigan, also signed with SIU.
Prior to Southern Illinois, Monaghan spent two seasons (2017-19) at Milwaukee. The Panthers were among just a handful of teams to beat nationally ranked Loyola in 2017-18, topping the eventual Final Four-bound Ramblers by 17 points in non-conference play.
Before his stop in the Cream City, Monaghan was an assistant for six seasons at Division II powerhouse Minnesota State University (2011-17), where he helped the Mavericks to four NCAA Tournament appearances and a pair of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference titles. He was also the recruiting coordinator for the Mavericks, and 13 players earned All-NSIC honors during his tenure. The Mavericks won 28 games in 2012-13 and topped that with a 30-5 mark in 2013-14. The Mavs won 20 or more games in each of his final five campaigns.
He served as the director of basketball operations at Loyola Chicago (2010-11) and two years as an assistant at Coffeyville Community College (2008-10), where he helped guide the Ravens to a 46-20 record, including a Jayhawk East Conference Championship in 2009.Â
Monaghan played collegiately at Division II institution Lewis University and led the Flyers in scoring with 14.0 points per game as a senior in 2005-06. Prior to Lewis, he played two seasons at Harper Junior College and was named Third-Team NJCAA All-American in 2004.