The Atlantic 10 will hire Big East senior associate commissioner Dan Leibovitz as its next commissioner, sources told ESPN on Sunday.
The parties are expected to reach an agreement in the near future, the sources said.
Leibovitz brings extensive basketball experience, having led the sport for both the SEC and the American Conference. He also worked as a college head coach and NBA assistant and spent a decade in the Atlantic 10 as an assistant coach to John Chaney at Temple.
Leibovitz, who brings perspective to the conference from its heyday, will replace Bernadette McGlade, who is stepping down after 18 years as A-10 commissioner.
Leibovitz has become one of basketball's most respected administrators over the past decade, having served as associate commissioner of basketball in the SEC from 2016 to 2023.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has credited Leibovitz with helping usher in that league's golden age of basketball.
“We needed someone like that with a basketball pedigree, someone who understood what we as coaches go through,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes told ESPN about Leibovitz in 2025. “We were struggling. Our scheduling was poor. The referees were poor, and when John Guthrie was in the league, we had the best referees in the country in the SEC. We needed someone like Dan, a strong voice for basketball in our league.”
Leibovitz's duties in the Big East included managing the conference tournament as well as league operations, strategy and scheduling.
Leibovitz served as an assistant coach at Temple from 1996 to 2006 and at Penn from 2010 to 2012. In between, he was the head coach at Hartford from 2006 to 2010.
He spent two years as an assistant for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats.
