Jocelyn Floyd enters her fifth year as an assistant coach for the IUP women’s basketball team in 2019-20. She's been an integral part of a coaching staff that has seen the most successful stretch in program history. In the last four seasons, the Crimson Hawks are 205-24 (.895) with four 20-win seasons, four straight NCAA tournament selections, two PSAC tournament championship (2017, 2019), and back-to-back Atlantic Region crowns and Elite Eight appearances in 2018 and 2019.
Floyd helped the Crimson Hawks to back-to-back national semifinals of the Elite Eight, as they finished with both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons with an overall record of 30-4. The 30 victories are a program record. IUP won the PSAC Western Division regular season title in 2018 with a 20-2 league record - tying the program record for PSAC wins in a year - before falling in the semifinals of the conference tournament.
The Crimson Hawks regrouped, cruising to an NCAA Atlantic Region title with wins over rival and No. 6 seed California (90-65); fourth-ranked and No. 2 seed Glenville State (88-68); and upstart No. 8 seed Bowie State (75-60) in the final. IUP traveled to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the Elite Eight, defeating 11th-ranked and No. 4 seed Stonehill 75-71 before falling to top-ranked and undefeated Ashland 92-68 in the semifinals.
No other IUP women's basketball team had ever won a game at the NCAA Division II championship site.
IUP women's basketball followed up its wildly successful 2017-18 season with another historic year. The Crimson Hawks won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division regular season title, the PSAC tournament championship, and another Atlantic Region crown to advance to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight for the second consecutive season.
In 2017, Floyd helped the Crimson Hawks win the program's first PSAC tournament title in eight years with an 84-79 win over California (Pa.) at Shippensburg.
Floyd entered coaching after a collegiate and professional playing career.
She graduated from Duquesne in 2013 as the school's all-time steals leader with 366. Floyd, who led the NCAA with 149 steals and 4.97 steals per game her senior season, broke her own single-season steals record by 18 steals from her junior season. The 149 steals was the most in the Atlantic 10 Conference since the 1987-88 season. For her efforts, she was voted A-10 Defensive Player of the Year and named to the All-Defensive Team. Floyd was also a nominee for the WBCA National Defensive Player of the Year.
After her collegiate career, she signed a contract to play professionally with New Basket Oberhausen 92 of the Damen-Basketball-Bundesligen League in Germany.
Updated July 2, 2019
