Nick Carty joined the Lincoln men's basketball team as a graduate assistant in the summer of 2022. He was promoted to assistant coach in 2023 and was elevated to Associate Head Coach during the 2024-25 season. Carty is in his fourth season with the Blue Tigers.
Carty helped lead Lincoln an historic season in 2024-25, as the Blue Tigers won the GLVC tournament in their first year in the league and earned a berth in the NCAA Division II tournament. The GLVC championship marked the first-ever postseason conference tournament title for the Blue Tigers, and it was LU's first trip to the NCAA tourney since 1981. Lincoln finished 23-8 that season.
During the 2022-23 season, Carty helped coach the second-biggest turnaround in NCAA Division II, as Lincoln won 17 games and finished fifth in the MIAA after tallying just four wins in 2021-22. The following season, Carty again helped the Blue Tigers qualify for the postseason, as Lincoln beat Emporia State in the first round of the MIAA tournament before falling to Fort Hays State, then ranked No. 16 in the country, in a hard-fought 65-60 loss.
Over the past four years, Carty has worked with four players who earned All-MIAA recognition and three who received postseason accolades from the GLVC. That includes Franck Yetna, an All-GLVC first team selection in 2024-25 who was also named to the HBCU Division II All-American second team. During the GLVC tournament, Carter also coached Andreas Fuller and Tyler Chapman, both of whom were named to the all-tournament team with Fuller selected as the tourney's MVP.
Carty comes to Lincoln from Colorado State University, an NCAA Division I program, where he served as the head student manager and assistant video coordinator. Carty helped the Rams go 25-6 in 2021-22 and qualify for the NCAA tournament. From 2018-20, Carty played at Grinnell College, taking the team to the Midwest Conference Championship tournament finals as a freshman and to the semifinals as a sophomore.
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