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Al Davis, a former standout player for Bellarmine, joined the Knights as an assistant coach prior to the 2019-20 season.

In 2021-22, Davis helped guide Bellarmine to a landmark season in the Knights’ second year in Division I. Bellarmine captured its first-ever ASUN Tournament title and posted its first 20-win campaign in D1.

In 2022-23, BU opened the season with a victory at crosstown foe and D1 blue blood Louisville and secured a victory over North Florida in the ASUN Tournament.

In the 2020-21 season, Davis helped guide the Knights to a highly successful transition to D1. Bellarmine sported a 14-8 record overall and earned an invitation to a national postseason tournament (CBI) after falling just one game shy of capturing the ASUN Conference regular-season crown. In the program’s final season in D2, Davis helped Bellarmine post a 20-8 record in 2019-20 as the Knights earned their 12th straight berth in the NCAA II Tournament before it was canceled due to the coronavirus.

Davis played two seasons at Bellarmine, starting at guard in both 2015-16 and 2016-17. In the latter, he was named GLVC Defensive Player of the Year. As a senior, Davis led the team in minutes played per game (30.0) and steals (61), finished second on the team in assists (3.4) and 3-pointers made (45), and ranked third in scoring (11.5). 

Davis was selected to the SCB Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament Team and to the All-Tournament Team at the NCAA Midwest Regional.

Bellarmine secured an outright GLVC East regular-season championship, the GLVC Tournament title and a berth in the Final Four while going 32-4 in Davis’ senior season. 

In his junior campaign, Davis helped Bellarmine to a GLVC East title, a bid to the NCAA II Tournament and a 23-7 overall finish. He averaged 7.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists while leading the team with 40 steals.

Davis majored in sports administration at Bellarmine. He’s a native of Colorado Springs, Colorado. He and his wife, Taylor, have two children: Landen (7) and Kyla (3).

Patrick Reilingh joined the Bellarmine University men's basketball team's staff as an assistant coach in August 2024.

A native of Pleasantville, N.Y., and graduate of and former staffer at the University of Louisville, Reilingh (pronounced "RYE-ling") joins the Knights from The Citadel, where he served as an assistant coach under Ed Conroy for two seasons. At The Citadel, Reilingh was responsible for formulating game plans, recruiting and evaluating high school and transfer prospects, overseeing student-athletes' academic progress and scheduling non-conference opponents.

Reilingh is linked to the coaching trees of several prominent names including Rick Pitino, Richard Pitino and 18-year NBA veteran Jerry Stackhouse.

Prior to The Citadel, Reilingh served as video coordinator on Stackhouse's staff at Vanderbilt during the 2021-22 season. There, he was responsible for organizing team and opponent film, scouting assistance and producing recruiting content. He was also previously recruiting coordinator under the younger Pitino at Minnesota from 2019 to 2021, helping bring in student-athletes such as Isaiah Ihnen, Treyton Thompson and Jamal Mashburn, Jr.

Reilingh earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in sports administration at UofL. He served as a student manager on the elder Pitino's teams from 2013 to 2016. He continued at Louisville as assistant video coordinator for the 2016-17 season and was promoted to director of video operations under interim head coach David Padgett for the 2017-18 season.

Reilingh spent the 2018-19 season as a video coordinator at La Salle between his stints at Louisville and Minnesota.

Winston Yergler joined Bellarmine’s men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach in the summer of 2025.
 
Prior to coming to the Highlands, he spent the 2024-25 season at Division II Indianapolis. There he helped guide junior guard Dashawn Jackson to Second Team All-GLVC status and center Tucker Tornatta to the GLVC All-Freshman Team while the Hounds went 15-13 overall.

Prior to UIndy, he spent the 2023-24 season as an assistant at Marian University, also in Indianapolis, where he helped lead the Knights to a No. 7 Massey ranking and No. 22 national ranking. Yergler helped secure an at-large bid to the NAIA National Tournament as 10-seed. He was also instrumental in signing the NAIA’s top recruiting class according to Prep Hoops, landing two Indiana All-Stars and four of the state’s top-20 recruits. Additionally, he worked with Brody Whitaker as he reached 1,000 career points as a Marian Knight.

Yergler mentored three all-conference guards, one all-defensive guard and one all-freshman forward last winter at Marian, while the team improved their offensive efficiency to sixth in NAIA and top-15 scoring defense. Yergler helped oversee five NAIA Scholar Athletes and a team GPA of 3.4.

He previously spent two seasons at IUPUI (now IU Indy) from 2021-2023. After spending the 2021-22 season as the assistant director of operations, Yergler was promoted to the director of basketball operations in August 2022.

Prior to IUPUI, Yergler spent two seasons at Ball State where he was the graduate assistant and special assistant to the head coach. During his time at Ball State, Yergler worked closely with All MAC performers Tayler Persons and Trey Moses and has worked with nine different players who have amassed 1,000 points in their collegiate careers. Yergler's responsibilities at Ball State included being the head scouting coordinator, focusing primarily on defensive preparation over the course of the season, while also overseeing 12 undergraduate managers and six managers who worked specifically towards game promotions. Additionally, Yergler coordinated the coaching staff's travel schedules as they watched more than 600 high school and summer games across the country. 

Yergler played collegiately for two seasons at Iowa Central Community College before completing his degree at Purdue, where he was a men's basketball manager. He earned his bachelor’s degree in selling and sales management before earning his master's in sports administration from Ball State. 

Winston and his wife, Olivia, reside in Fishers, Ind., with their daughter, Monroe.

Scooter Galloway was hired as the Bellarmine University men’s basketball team’s first-ever director of basketball operations prior to the 2021-22 season and was promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2024-25 season.
 
The first full-time position as director of basketball operations marked a continued progression of Galloway’s career with Bellarmine under head coach Scott Davenport. A 2018 graduate of Bellarmine, Galloway was a team manager throughout his undergraduate career and then returned in a volunteer coaching capacity for the 2019-20 season and served as a graduate assistant for the 2020-21 team.

In addition to his vast Bellarmine experience, Galloway has worked in the Louisville Bats organization, starting as a bat boy in 2010 and serving as the visiting clubhouse manager in the 2014 season. He also has served as a substitute teacher in the Jefferson County Public Schools and at DeSales High School, where he also was an assistant basketball coach in 2018-19.

Galloway earned his bachelor's degree in sports administration from Bellarmine in 2018, and he is currently enrolled in Bellarmine’s master of business administration program.