Zak Boisvert joined the Indiana State men's basketball staff as an assistant coach in April of 2021.
Boisvert spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach at Army where he played a key role in offensive strategy and player development. In 2019-20, the Black Knights led the Patriot League in assists per game, a mark that ranked them 12th in Division I. Army also sat atop the Patriot League rankings for field goal percentage at 47.1% and their two-point percentage mark was good enough for 12th nationally.
Boisvert was key in the development of Tommy Funk, one of the best point guards to play for Army. Funk turned in a standout senior season in which he finished first on the team and third in the league in scoring with a career-best 17.5 points per game en route to being named First Team All-Patriot League, National Basketball Coaches Association (NABC) Third Team and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Third Team All-Met.
Boisvert helped Funk cap a historic career by shattering the Army and Patriot League record for career assists with 728, while also breaking Army’s single-season assists mark, which he previously set as a junior. Funk received U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) National Player of the Week recognition, the first by a Patriot League player since Mike Muscala of Bucknell did it during the 2010-11 season.
Boisvert, a Portland, Maine, native, arrived at West Point after two years at the University of Maine.
While at Maine, Boisvert saw the teams win total jump from three in his first season to eight wins in his second. The Black Bears' resurgence was aided by an impressive batch of young talent with freshmen and sophomores accounting for 69% of the Black Bears' scoring during the 2015-16 season. Maine had back-to-back America East All-Rookie team members (Kevin Little in 2014-15 and Issac Vann in 2015-16).
Before the 2015-16 season, Boisvert was tabbed by Maine head coach Bob Walsh as the program's "Offensive Coordinator." The Black Bears quickly upped the pace, raising their scoring average from 60.4 points per game to 76.6. The 16.2 increase in points per game marked the largest season-to-season scoring jump in Division I between the two seasons.
Prior to Maine, Boisvert gathered three years of collegiate coaching experience at Iona and Fairleigh Dickinson. As a member of the Knights, Boisvert helped FDU to its first conference tournament appearance in four years. Fairleigh Dickinson won six conference games during Boisvert's lone season in Teaneck, matching the program's total from the previous three years combined.
During his time at Iona, Boisvert assisted in leading the Gaels to a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) championship and a trip to the 2013 NCAA Tournament, where Iona bowed out to Ohio State in the second round.
Throughout his career, Boisvert has developed a reputation as a fantastic all-around teacher of the game, but his work with point guards has been particularly impressive. Boisvert's first season at Iona saw Scott Machado, the Gaels' floor general, post career highs in points (13.2 per game), field goal percentage (41%) and assists (7.6 per game). Machado would go on to play for three NBA teams (Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors and Utah Jazz). During Boisvert's second season in New Rochelle, Lamont "MoMo" Jones won the PepsiMaxMAAC Player of the Year award and finished as the third-leading scorer in the NCAA with a 22.6 per-game average.
Boisvert attended Fordham, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English in 2010.
