Ramim Bhuiya joined the Cougars men's basketball staff as an assistant coach on June 1, 2024.

He joins the Cougars staff with over 14 years of collegiate coaching experience, most recently as an assistant coach at Division III Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts where he served as the recruiting coordinator and oversaw defensive game planning for the Rams. FSU increased their win total each of his seasons on staff and reached the conference quarterfinals two of the past three seasons. He also played a major role in recruiting and developing the program’s first all-conference player in over seven years.  

Prior to Framingham State, Bhuiya served as the top assistant or associate head coach at Daniel Webster College, MassBay College and Lesley University. While serving as the lead scout and defensive coach, he aided in teams that ranked in the top 99% across the NCAA in Defensive Team Efficiency over two seasons according Synergy Spots Analysis. As a recruiter, Bhuiya has been an integral part of recruiting 10 all-conference honorees and six 1000-point scorers.

Bhuiya has been recognized for his on-court player skill development where he has individually worked with 2019-20 NCAA Scoring leader Eric Demers (32.4 ppg) who was named the 2015 Massachusetts Mr. Basketball and Gatorade Player of the Year. Demers was drafted by the Maine Celtics of the G-League. Bhuiya has helped develop athletes that have gone on to play in the NBA, NBA G-League, Liga ACB (Spain), LNPB (Mexico), ISBL (Israel) and NBL (England), as well as many other international leagues. He has been invited to camps and colleges across to the northeast as a lecturer for player development and team defense and has also been a primary coach and trainer for AAU program Basketball 2 The Limit that has produced over 250 collegiate basketball players.

Bhuiya was an athletic administrator before turning his attention to coaching, serving as assistant to the commissioner of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (Commissioner Joe Walsh) from 2013-14 where he concurrently coached varsity girls basketball, AAU boy’s and girl’s basketball and was an assistant men’s coach at Lesley University. He held several positions in campus recreation at the University of Massachusetts before serving as an intern in intramural sports at the University of Connecticut. 

He turned to coaching full time in 2014 as an associate head coach and head junior varsity coach at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, New Hampshire where he also was the varsity cross country coach for three seasons. Prior to his position as an assistant coach at Framingham State, he was a head girls coach at Concord Academy (Concord, Massachusetts) and assistant coach at MassBay Community College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

A 2010 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bhuiya has also served as a scholastic official in baseball, basketball and soccer in Massachusetts and Connecticut. As an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he worked extensively with the Athletics and Campus Recreation department as a program supervisor where he founded the Student Officials’ Association.