Don Maestri

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Don Maestri

Title	Head coach
College	Troy
Sport	Basketball
Career highlights
Championships
A-Sun Tournament Championship (2003) A-Sun Regular Season Championship (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) ECC Regular Season Championship (1994)
Awards
A-Sun Coach of the Year (2000, 2004) Summit League Coach of the Year (1997) ECC Coach of the Year (1994)
Playing career
1966–1968	Southern Mississippi
Position	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1970–1979 1979–1980 1980–1982 1982–present	Holy Cross HS Mississippi State (asst.) Alabama (asst.) Troy

Don Maestri (b. October 25, 1946) is the current head men's basketball coach of the Troy Trojans at Troy University. He has held the same position since 1982 and is one of five current coaches to have coached the same team during its school's move from NCAA Division II to Division I. Prior to accepting this position, Maestri was an assistant coach at Mississippi State University from 1979 to [[1980] and at the University of Alabama from 1980 to 1982. Maestri has coached the Trojans to a record of 433-316, one NCAA Basketball Tournament, five regular season conference titles, and one conference tournament title over the course of 26 seasons at Troy. He has been named coach of the year in the East Coast Conference (1994), the Summit League (1997, then known as the Mid-Continent Conference), and the Atlantic Sun Conference (2000 and 2004).

Maestri is famous for his run and gun style of basketball, which has led the Trojans to lead Division I NCAA Basketball in 3-pointers per game three consecutive seasons, from 2003-2006 [1]. He also coached Troy to a 258-141 win over the DeVry Institute of Atlanta on January 12, 1992 which is the highest scoring basketball game in [[NCAA] history. Ironically, his emphasis on defensive pressure and a lock-down style of basketball is what pushed the Trojans to two Division II Final Fours in six years [2].