Brandon Pritzl, a 2014 graduate of the Charger men’s basketball program, was a defensive standout and a leader for Hillsdale College as a player. Now, he's helping lead the program in a different way, as Hillsdale College's Associate Head Coach for Men's Basketball.

The Hillsdale alum took the place of another former Charger, Luke Laser, on the coaching staff before the 2016-17 season. In April of 2020, after four successful seasons as an assistant under Head Coach John Tharp, Pritzl was promoted to Associate Head Coach for the 2020-21 season and serves as the longest-tenured current assistant in the program.

Pritzl returned to Hillsdale after spending the prior two seasons as a graduate assistant with the Ohio University men’s basketball program. While with the Bobcats, Pritzl was responsible for many aspects of the program’s day-to-day operations, including ticket management, keeping recruiting databases up to date, and working with the Jump Program and the school’s summer camps.

As a player at Hillsdale from 2010-14, Pritzl was a key part of two 20-win teams. He was a three-year starter at shooting guard and was twice named to the GLIAC All-Defensive Team (2011-12, 2013-14). In his career, Pritzl scored 843 points and started 81 games while helping lead the Chargers to their first overall GLIAC regular season title since 1981-82 and their first regular season crown at the Division II level in 2011-12.

Pritzl is from De Pere, Wisconsin, and graduated from De Pere High School, where he was the Fox River Classic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year and All-Area Player of the Year in 2010, his senior year in high school. His family has a legacy of basketball success, as his father, Brian, played at St. Norbert College in DePere, and his younger brother, Brevin, played an important role in his team's success during a five-year career at Division I University of Wisconsin from 2015-2020.