St. Louis reaches long-term extension agreement with Josh Schertz

Tom Timmermann, St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Mar 13, 2026

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PITTSBURGH — As the rumor mill has been churning on the future of St. Louis University men's basketball coach Josh Schertz, the matter was put to rest Friday morning.

Athletics director Chris May told reporters at PPG Paints Arena prior to SLU’s game with George Washington in the Atlantic 10 Tournament that the school had come to an agreement in principle with Schertz on a long-term extension.

“We’ve been working on it for a long time,” May said, “thrilled about the ability to build a program with sustained success. We’ve had a great first two years (and) we look forward to many, many more.”

Other than to say it was a multi-year extension, May didn’t give any specifics about the deal and other things it may include, such as commitments for NIL money or for assistant coach salaries, but he was pleased to be able to quiet down the concern about Schertz leaving for another school. “Feel great about it,” May said. “I feel great about where we are.”

"I came to St. Louis and I had really high expectations of what I thought it could be in terms of commitment and infrastructure and it's been everything I thought and more so," Schertz said after SLU's 88-81 win over George Washington. "I think when you feel like people value you and they feel like you bring value to what you try to do as an employee, that's great. So I'm very honored and humbled. Their commitment has been elite and it's been from when I got there, everything that St. Louis has done to try to continue to make this job better, better, better and I think we're just scratching the surface of what it could be."

Schertz is in his second season at SLU after three seasons at Indiana State and 13 seasons at Division II Lincoln Memorial in Tennessee. SLU went 19-15 in his first season and went into its game with George Washington on Friday at 27-4.

As SLU went on its 18-game win streak this season and SLU moved into the national rankings, Schertz’s name became a common one wherever there was a coaching vacancy, and it was talk that didn’t figure to go away any time soon.

Schertz’s style of play and the team’s success turned SLU basketball into an event this season, with the team selling out its final five games of the season. Schertz has talked about, without an NBA team in St. Louis, building the program into a team that would appeal to all basketball fans in St. Louis.