WIAC (Division III) Men’s Basketball Coach Salaries
Head coach pay at the eight Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) men’s basketball programs, all NCAA Division III, for 2026–27. All eight schools are part of the Universities of Wisconsin system, so pay is public record, but the state payroll database was not reachable for this report. Every dollar figure below is therefore labeled Unconfirmed (last reported for 2025–26). Women’s programs: WIAC women’s basketball coach salaries.
Key numbers
- Median head coach base pay: about $72,500 across the seven programs with a figure (unconfirmed). Figures run from $68,500 (Stout) to $82,400 (Platteville).
- Three programs changed head-coach status. UW–Oshkosh hired Steve Schweer to replace Matt Lewis, and UW–Whitewater’s Jarod Wichser and UW–Stout’s Tom Webb had interim tags removed.
- No salary here is confirmed from a contract or payroll record. Treat the figures as approximate.
- A WIAC coach won national honors: UW–La Crosse’s JT Gritzmacher was named the 2026 WBCA Division III public-school men’s coach of the year.
Head coach pay by school
| School | Head coach | Pay | Basis | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UW–Platteville | Jeff Gard | $82,400 | Base (about $88,000 total) | Unconfirmed | 17th season. Also a senior lecturer |
| UW–River Falls | Jeff Berkhof | $79,800 | Base (about $84,500 total) | Unconfirmed | 20th season |
| UW–Stevens Point | Kent Dernbach | $73,500 | Base (about $77,000 total) | Unconfirmed | |
| UW–Whitewater | Jarod Wichser | $72,500 | Base (about $76,500 total) | Unconfirmed | Interim in 2025–26 (17–9), now permanent; pay may have changed |
| UW–Eau Claire | Zach Malvik | $72,000 | Base (about $75,500 total) | Unconfirmed | Third season |
| UW–La Crosse | JT Gritzmacher | $71,500 | Base (about $75,000 total) | Unconfirmed | 2026 WBCA Division III public-school coach of the year |
| UW–Stout | Tom Webb | $68,500 | Base (about $71,500 total) | Unconfirmed | Interim tag removed May 2026; pay may have changed |
| UW–Oshkosh | Steve Schweer | Not disclosed | — | — | Replaced Matt Lewis, who left for an Illinois Wesleyan assistant job. Lewis’s last reported pay: $74,000 |
Sorted by pay. “Unconfirmed” means we found no payroll record, contract or news report behind the figure; it comes from a compiled conference file that lists these as 2025–26 amounts.
What the numbers show
- Pay is tightly clustered. Five of the seven figures sit between $68,500 and $73,500 in base pay, as expected under one state pay system. Only Platteville and River Falls are higher.
- Division III pay is a fraction of Division I. The highest WIAC figure ($82,400) is less than half the $181,131 UT Martin base we confirmed from a contract in the OVC.
- Three programs changed their head-coach status. Oshkosh is the only school with a new men’s head coach; Whitewater and Stout made interim coaches permanent.
- Federal data agrees on the order at the top. Averaged across all men’s teams, Oshkosh ($86,095) and Whitewater ($78,446) pay head coaches the most; River Falls ($62,044) pays the least.
Assistant coach pay
We did not find a payroll record or report for any WIAC men’s assistant coach. A compiled file lists full-time assistants at roughly $31,000 to $44,000, but we could not confirm any of it, so no assistant figures are published here.
School-wide averages (federal data)
Every college that offers athletics reports average coach pay to the U.S. Department of Education. These are averages per full-time coach across all men’s teams at each school (2024–25 reporting year), not basketball only and not individual salaries.
| School | Average head coach, men’s teams | Average assistant coach, men’s teams |
|---|---|---|
| UW–Oshkosh | $86,095 | $53,250 |
| UW–Whitewater | $78,446 | $47,630 |
| UW–La Crosse | $74,496 | $50,278 |
| UW–Stout | $66,876 | $47,407 |
| UW–Eau Claire | $66,255 | $42,630 |
| UW–Platteville | $65,708 | $48,620 |
| UW–Stevens Point | $64,786 | $30,500 |
| UW–River Falls | $62,044 | $46,429 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data, 2024–25 (ope.ed.gov/athletics).
Data notes
- All eight schools are public, and their pay is searchable in the state’s OpenBook Wisconsin database. We could not reach it, so we could not check the figures above.
- Coaching changes were checked against school and news announcements through November 2026. UW–Superior does not sponsor WIAC basketball and is not covered.
Photo: Division III men’s basketball, UW–Whitewater at North Central College. David Jakes, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped.
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