LSU New Orleans

JOINED: May 2024

Andrew Fava earned a promotion to Assistant Coach/Chief of Staff after serving the previous two seasons as Assistant Coach/Operations Director under Stacy Hollowell.

Fava made his way back to New Orleans – where he won a national championship with Hollowell as a member of the Loyola Wolf Pack in 2022 – after a one-year stint as an assistant coach at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.

During his lone season coaching the Crusaders, the team finished 9-9 in conference play and 12-18 overall. The team finished the season with top-five totals in program history in 3-pointers made (258) and fewest turnovers (379), as well as top-10 totals in defensive rebounds (714), offensive rebounds (273) and assists (421). Senior guard Mason Taylor was named third-team all-conference after averaging 15.8 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.

Prior to The Abbey, Fava coached for Loyola New Orleans for the 2022-23 season. The Wolf Pack went 24-7 overall, while winning the SSAC Regular Season and Tournament Championships. The 24 wins tied for the second-most in a season in program history.

Fava first linked up with Coach Hollowell at Loyola as a graduate-transfer for the 2019-20 season. Over the next three seasons, he appeared in 65 games with 62 starts for the Wolf Pack, averaging 10.7 points, 1.9 assists and 1.3 steals per game. He made 39.6 percent of his 3-pointers and 85.4 percent of his free throws.

He started all 38 games during the Wolf Pack’s 2022 NAIA National Championship season, including a victory over the Privateers at Lakefront Arena that November. During his final season uptown, he was a second-team All-SSAC selection and was a three-time SSAC All-Academic selection during his career.

His 92 made 3-pointers were the 11th-most in the NAIA during the 2021-22 season and the third-most in a single season in school history. His 54 steals during his final season at Loyola were the 10th-most in school history. His 183 career triples at Loyola were the ninth-most in program history, and he is one of just two former Wolf Pack student-athletes to rank inside the school's top 10 while playing fewer than 100 games.

Fava began his college career as a student-manager at the University of Florida for the 2016-17 season. He lived his childhood dream by earning a walk-on spot for the Gators prior to the 2017-18 season. He made 13 appearances over two years, and he remains part of a unique moment in Gator history - as one of nine different Florida players to hit a 3 pointer in a single game - a feat only accomplished four times in NCAA history. As a redshirt freshman he appeared in the NCAA tournament victory against St. Bonaventure.

Andrew was a multisport athlete at Loyola Blakefield High School, including a three-year starter on the Dons basketball team. Fava was named All-Baltimore Catholic League honorable mention following both his junior and senior seasons. He was also a four-year letterman for the Dons baseball team, and played a year of high school football as well. 

Fava graduated in 2019 from Florida, earning his Bachelor of Arts in Criminology with a minor in Spanish. He earned two Master’s degrees during his time at Loyola New Orleans: Master of Business Administration in 2021 and Master of Science in Marketing and Communications in 2022.