Naclerio made his return to St. Lawrence as head men's basketball coach in July 2026, following multiple stints on other coaching staffs.
He spent the last four seasons as a full-time assistant at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where the team compiled a 90-19 overall record with him on the bench, good for an .826 winning percentage. WPI finished at the top of the NEWMAC in each of his four seasons and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in 2024-25.
During his tenure, Naclerio helped coach four 1,000-point scorers, three NEWMAC Player of the Year selections, two NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Year selections, 11 All-NEWMAC selections, seven All-Region selections and three NABC and D3hoops.com All-Americans. He also carried significant recruiting and administrative responsibilities, successfully recruiting the 2022 Delaware Gatorade Player of the Year to WPI along with multiple Division I transfers.
Prior to WPI, Naclerio spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Gettysburg College, where he coached a Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year and a First Team All-Conference selection.
Naclerio returns to where his coaching career began, where he served as an assistant at St. Lawrence from 2019 to 2021, helping create daily practice plans, developing scouting reports on opponents and breaking down game film, while coaching a Liberty League Rookie of the Year and an All-Conference selection.
But Naclerio's ties to St. Lawrence run even deeper. He starred for the Saints as a player from 2014 to 2018, finishing his career with 1,502 points, the second-most in program history. He was a two-time team captain and two-time All-Liberty League selection and earned NABC and D3hoops.com All-East Region honors along with a spot on the Liberty League All-Academic Team. Naclerio helped lead the Saints to the 2017 NCAA Tournament, a season in which St. Lawrence went 13-3 in conference play and 20-7 overall.
Now, nearly a decade after he first put on a Saints uniform, Naclerio returns to lead the program he once played and coached for, taking over a team that made 20 postseason appearances and won more than 400 games under Downs.
