Lewisburg, PA -- (Sports Network) - Bucknell named Dave Paulsen as men's head basketball coach on Tuesday, replacing Pat Flannery, who announced his retirement in April.

Paulsen is a two-time National Coach of the Year at Williams College, leading the team to a Division III national championship in 2003. He helped guide the Ephs to a 170-53 (.762) record, including a combined 61-3 mark in the national championship season and as runner-up in 2003-04.

Paulsen's teams won three NESCAC championships (2003, 2004, 2007) and earned four Division III NCAA Tournament berths (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007).

In 14 years as a head coach, Paulsen amassed a 262-120 (.680) record with Williams and previous tenures with LeMoyne and St. Lawrence.

The 43-year-old Paulsen is the 20th head basketball coach at Bucknell, following the retirement of Flannery.

Flannery, head coach at Bucknell from 1994-2008, guided the Bison to a 234-178 record, two Patriot League titles and two NCAA Tournament wins.

Flannery's 125 conference wins at Bucknell are a Patriot League record, and he is second on the all-time wins list at the school, behind only his former coach, Charlie Woollum (318). His 2004-05 squad went 24-9, and upended third- seeded Kansas in the first round of the NCAA tourney. The next year the Bison went 27-5 -- a school-record for wins - and became the first team in Patriot League history to go 14-0 in the conference. That season was capped by earning a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the best in school history, and another first-round win, over Arkansas.

Flannery missed two games this past season due to an unspecified illness, but was cleared to return to the bench on Feb. 8th. He was also absent for five games during the 2004-05 season with what were later diagnosed as stress- related symptoms.