Ben Limback will be entering his ninth season at the helm of the Concordia men's basketball team in 2010-11. Limback has redefined Concordia basketball, with the hopes of taking the Cardinals to the top of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference.

In 2006-07, the Cardinals finished the season with their second consecutive winning season with an 18-14 record. Limback was named WHAC Coach of the Year in 2007. Prior to his arrival, the last winning mark in Cardinal basketball lore was the 1979-80 season.

The past few seasons have included numerous highlights including, but not limited to, the Cardinal's first-ever championship in the Concordia Invitational in 2007. The Cardinals played in three consecutive CIT Championship games from 2005 through 2008, the longest stretch ever for Ann Arbor in the tournament. In addition to the CIT, the Cards have registered their first-ever road playoff victory and back-to-back appearances in the WHAC semifinal round. 

Prior to joining the Concordia family, Limback was an assistant coach at NCAA Division II Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

During his collegiate playing days, Limback was an NAIA All-American Honorable Mention in 1998 and 1999 at Concordia-Seward in Nebraska. Limback was also an NAIA Academic All-American after the '98 and '99 seasons. During the '99 season, Limback's performance also earned him Conference Player of the Year.

Limback currently stands as the third all-time winningest coach in Concordia-Ann Arbor history with 63 victories, needing only four more to move into second place all-time. Only one other coach in Cardinal history has averaged more wins per season than Limback has in his six years: Walt Harting, the all-time career victory leader who averaged a little more than 15 wins in his six seasons. Limback has averaged 13 wins a season in his coaching career.

Limback's first collegiate victory came against Indiana Wesleyan University, 84-81, at Cardinal Field House on November 11, 2003.

Limback currently resides in Ann Arbor with his wife, Kelley, and their four children: Leighton (7), Malachi (5), Kennedy (3), and Emerson (born August 2010).

Matt Distelrath is in his fifth year as both the assistant men's basketball coach and the head coach of the men's and women's golf programs. No stranger to Concordia athletics, Distelrath had been both an athlete and coach for the Cardinals prior to his return before the 2008-09 season.

Distelrath was a prep-standout in three sports at his alma mater, St. Clair High School, as he played varsity football, basketball and baseball, earning multiple honors in each sport.

Upon graduation, Distelrath headed to the former St. Mary's College in Orchard Lake where he played two years of basketball, before transferring to Concordia for his final two seasons. In Distelrath's senior season, he played for head coach Ben Limback, during Limback's first season at the helm of the program in 2003-04. Also that spring, Distelrath played one season of college baseball for current head coach Karl Kling.

After earning his degree from Concordia, Distelrath quickly entered the coaching ranks as he joined Coach Limback's staff for the 2004-05 season. A full-time position opened at Marygrove College, so Distelrath headed to Detroit to serve as the Mustangs Sports Information Director and assistant basketball coach. At Marygrove, Distelrath was in charge of recruiting, scheduling, scouting opponents and focused on teaching the perimeter players in the program.

After two seasons, Distelrath headed back to his alma mater where he served as freshmen basketball coach at St. Clair High School. Distelrath still had close ties to the school, as he had assisted with baseball from 2005 through 2008, and was an assistant for football for three seasons from 2006 through 2008.

Prior to last season, Coach Limback knew that Distelrath was the right man to bring back to Concordia to not only assist with basketball, but use his talents at recruiting as well as his ability to coach, to take the Cardinal golf programs to new levels.

Distelrath resides in Ypsilanti with his wife Sara, and their newborn son, Jaxon, born on November 21.

Alum, Marv Fox Jr. rejoined the Cardinal coaching staff in 2010.  Fox Jr. played 4 years (2000-2004) for Concordia University - Ann Arbor, while earning a degree in Psychology.  After graduating, Marv went on to work for Concordia in the admissions department.  In addition to working for the University, Coach Fox also joined the men's basketball coaching staff.  After his 2 year tenure at the University, Marv went on to become a performance coach for Velocity Sports Performance (VSP). While working for Concordia University and VSP, Marv exercised his entrepreneurial spirit and created Meticulous Basketball (MB). Meticulous Basketball is an initiative designed to develop the 5 pillars of basketball skills - Moving - Catching - Dribbling - Passing - Scoring.  After 3 years at VSP, Coach Fox took a step on faith and went into business full-time as a basketball skills instructor.  In 2010, Marv rejoined the Concordia men's coaching staff with the expectation to use his background in skill development and performance training to improve upon last year's efforts.  Marv is excited about being able to give back to the players and the University that supported and developed him as a student athlete.