Rollie Massimino
Rollie Massimino | |
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Massimino in Philadelphia on March 21, 2009 | |
Sport(s) | Basketball |
Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Northwood (FL) |
Record | 245β60 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Hillside, New Jersey | November 13, 1934
Playing career | |
1953β1956 | Vermont |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1959β1962 1962β1965 1965β1969 1969β1971 1972β1973 1973β1992 1992β1994 1996β2003 2006βpresent |
Cranford HS (assistant) Hillside HS Lexington HS Stony Brook Penn (assistant) Villanova UNLV Cleveland State Northwood (FL) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 761β451 (college) |
Tournaments |
0β2 (NCAA College Division) 21β10 (NCAA Division I) 4β5 (NIT) 11β7 (NAIA Division II) 9β2 (EBCL / Eastern 8) 13β12 (Big East) 2β2 (Big West) 3β7 (MCC/Horizon) 13β6 (TSC) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships
1 NCAA Division I (1985) 3 Eastern 8 regular season (1978β1980) 2 Eastern 8 Tournament (1978, 1980) 2 Big East regular season (1982β1983) 6 TSC regular season (2007β2009, 2011β 2013) 3 TSC Tournament (2010, 2012, 2014) | |
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013 |
Roland V. "Rollie" Massimino (born November 13, 1934) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at the Florida campus of Northwood University in West Palm Beach, a position he has held since 2006. Massimino previously served as the head men's basketball coach at Stony Brook University (1969β1971), Villanova University (1973β1992), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1992β1994), and Cleveland State University (1996β2003). At Villanova, he led his 1984β85 team to the NCAA Championship. Entering the 1985 NCAA Tournament as an eight seed, Villanova defeated their heavily favored Big East Conference foe, the Georgetown Hoyas, who had Patrick Ewing, in the National Championship Game. The upset is widely regarded as one of the greatest in North American sports history.[1]
Education
Massimino has a master's degree equivalent in health and physical education from Rutgers University (1959) and a bachelorβs degree in education from the University of Vermont (1956). While a student at UVM, he became a member of the Alpha-Lambda Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.[2]
Coaching career
High school
After graduating from the University of Vermont, where he played varsity basketball for three years, Massimino entered the coaching ranks in 1956. In 1959, he began a three-year tenure as an assistant coach at Cranford High School in Cranford, New Jersey; this was Massimino's high school alma mater.
Massimino took his first head coach position in 1962 at Hillside High School in New Jersey. With the support of high school All-American Bill Shutsky and others (Shutsky later captained the West Point basketball team), Massimino led the Comets to the state Group IV finals in 1963 and 1964. In both seasons, Hillside was defeated in the final playoff game by Newark's Central High School. The Comets lost during both years to a team composed of taller players, despite pushing the thrilling 1963 championship game into double-overtime.
From there, Massimino moved to Lexington High School in Massachusetts. In 1965, he led the Lexington squad to a state championship and later led another to a 20β1 record. Along the way, Massimino was laying the foundation for an elite scholastic program which later dominated the Middlesex League, winning state titles in 1971, 1972, and 1978 along with league championships in 16 of the past 30 years.
In ten seasons as a high school coach, Massimino compiled a 160β61 record.
College
Massimino's collegiate debut came in 1969 as head coach of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In his first season the Seawolves won the conference championship after going 19β6, earning a berth in the NCAA small college tournament. Massimino's next stop was as an assistant coach under Chuck Daly at the University of Pennsylvania.
Massimino left Penn in March 1973, succeeding John Kraft as head coach of Villanova and leading the 1984-85 Wildcats team to one of the greatest upsets in NCAA tournament history by knocking off top-seeded Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) in the 1985 NCAA Tournament Championship Game. The road to the finals proved an even greater challenge, kicking off with a win on #9-seed Dayton's home court, followed by victories over #1-seed Michigan, #4-seed Maryland, #2-seed North Carolina, before culminating in a Final Four victory over #2-seeded Memphis State.
After Villanova's unexpected championship run Massimino was offered the job of head coach of the National Basketball Association New Jersey Nets, which he declined in order to devote more time to his family.
Massimino resigned from Villanova in 1992 to assume the head coaching job at UNLV. The initial hope was that he could restore the success and credibility of the UNLV program after the basketball team's 1991β92 probation and the forced resignation of long-time coach Jerry Tarkanian. Two years later, Massimino was himself forced out when it was revealed that he and UNLV president Robert Maxson had cut a side deal to lift Massimino's salary above the figure being reported to the state of Nevada and state commission ruled that this had violated both state ethics laws, as well as UNLV rules.
Moving onto the Cleveland State University in 1996, Massimino's teams recorded a 90β113 record in his seven seasons as coach. Massimino's contract was bought out following a series of off-court issues.. These included several players with drug and alcohol problems, other players arrested for serious crimes, and allegations of academic fraud. See http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/7613396/1
Massimino is currently the head coach for the men's basketball team at Northwood University in West Palm Beach, Florida, members in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The 2006β07 Northwood coached by Massimino was its inaugural season in The Sun Conference. In his first four seasons with the Seahawks, Massimino led Northwood to four FSC regular season titles, four appearances in the NAIA National tournament, and the Seahawks reached the Elite Eight in 2008. Massimino and the Seahawks have received bids to the NAIA tournament in all of his eight seasons at Northwood, with the team's best finishes a place in the national semifinals in 2011 and a national runner-up finish in 2012. Though the end of the 2013-14 season, Massimino's overall record at Northwood stands at 227β48 (.825 winning percentage). http://seahawks.gonorthwood.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/index.
On November 1, 2012, Massimino returned to Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky for the first time since his 1985 championship triumph, playing a preseason exhibition game against reigning NCAA Division I champions Kentucky. The game was played at the request of Massimino after indicating to Kentucky head coach John Calipari that the 2012β13 season could be his last in coaching. In a later interview, Massimino hedged somewhat, saying, "I don't know if it's my last [season]. I hope I can go another year or so."[3] Kentucky introduced Massimino with a video montage of the final minutes of Villanova's 1985 victory.[4]
Family
Massimino and his wife, Mary Jane, have five childrenβTom, Lee Ann, Michele, Roland (R. C.), and Andrewβas well as 17 grandchildrenβRoland, Stephen, Tommy, Michael, Kayla, John, Kristin, Leo, Matthew, Grace, Megan, Nicholas, Jessica, Nicole, Roland Michael, Melissa, and Rocco.
Head coaching record
College
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Stony Brook Patriots (Knickerbocker Conference) (1969β1971) | |||||||||
1969β70 | Stony Brook | 18β6 | 8β0 | NCAA College Division Regional Fourth Place | |||||
1970β71 | Stony Brook | 15β10 | 7β2 | ||||||
Stony Brook: | 33β16 | 15β2 | |||||||
Villanova Wildcats (NCAA Division I Independent) (1973β1976) | |||||||||
1973β74 | Villanova | 7β19 | |||||||
1974β75 | Villanova | 9β18 | |||||||
1975β76 | Villanova | 16β11 | |||||||
Villanova Wildcats (Eastern Collegiate Basketball League/Eastern 8) (1976β1980) | |||||||||
1976β77 | Villanova | 23β10 | 6β1 | 2nd (East) | NIT Third Place | ||||
1977β78 | Villanova | 23β9 | 7β3 | Tβ1st | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
1978β79 | Villanova | 15β13 | 9β1 | 1st | |||||
1979β80 | Villanova | 23β8 | 7β3 | Tβ1st | NCAA Second Round | ||||
Villanova Wildcats (Big East Conference) (1980β1992) | |||||||||
1980β81 | Villanova | 20β11 | 8β6 | Tβ3rd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
1981β82 | Villanova | 24β8 | 11β3 | 1st | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
1982β83 | Villanova | 24β8 | 12β4 | Tβ1st | NCAA Elite Eight | ||||
1983β84 | Villanova | 19β12 | 12β4 | Tβ2nd | NCAA Second Round | ||||
1984β85 | Villanova | 25β10 | 9β7 | Tβ3rd | NCAA Champion | ||||
1985β86 | Villanova | 23β14 | 10β6 | 4th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
1986β87 | Villanova | 15β16 | 6β10 | 6th | NIT First Round | ||||
1987β88 | Villanova | 24β13 | 9β7 | Tβ3rd | NCAA Eilte Eight | ||||
1988β89 | Villanova | 18β16 | 7β9 | Tβ5th | NIT Third Round | ||||
1989β90 | Villanova | 18β15 | 8β8 | Tβ5th | NCAA First Round | ||||
1990β91 | Villanova | 17β15 | 7β9 | Tβ7th | NCAA Second Round | ||||
1991β92 | Villanova | 14β15 | 11β7 | 4th | NIT First Round | ||||
Vilanova: | 357β241 | 139β88 | |||||||
UNLV Runnin' Rebels (Big West Conference) (1992β1994) | |||||||||
1992β93 | UNLV | 21β8 | 13β5 | 2nd | NIT First Round | ||||
1993β94 | UNLV | 15β13 | 10β8 | Tβ5th | |||||
UNLV: | 36β21 | 23β13 | |||||||
Cleveland State Vikings (Midwestern Collegiate Conference/Horizon League) (1996β2003) | |||||||||
1996β97 | Cleveland State | 9β19 | 6β10 | Tβ6th | |||||
1997β98 | Cleveland State | 12β15 | 6β8 | Tβ5th | |||||
1998β99 | Cleveland State | 14β14 | 6β8 | 5th | |||||
1999β00 | Cleveland State | 16β14 | 9β5 | 2nd | |||||
2000β01 | Cleveland State | 19β13 | 9β5 | 3rd | |||||
2001β02 | Cleveland State | 12β16 | 6β10 | 7th | |||||
2002β03 | Cleveland State | 8β22 | 3β13 | 9th | |||||
Cleveland State: | 90β113 | 45β59 | |||||||
Northwood Seahawks (The Sun Conference) (2006βpresent) | |||||||||
2006β07 | Northwood | 23β9 | 9β3 | 1st | NAIA Division II First Round | ||||
2007β08 | Northwood | 27β8 | 12β2 | 1st | NAIA Division II Quarterfinal | ||||
2008β09 | Northwood | 27β6 | 11β3 | 1st | NAIA Division II Second Round | ||||
2009β10 | Northwood | 27β6 | 12β4 | 2nd | NAIA Division II First Round | ||||
2010β11 | Northwood | 33β4 | 16β0 | 1st | NAIA Division II Semifinal | ||||
2011β12 | Northwood | 34β4 | 14β2 | 1st | NAIA Division II Runner-up | ||||
2012β13 | Northwood | 30β4 | 14β2 | 1st | NAIA Division II First Round | ||||
2013β14 | Northwood | 26β7 | 14β4 | Tβ2nd | NAIA Division II First Round | ||||
2014β15 | Northwood | 18β12 | 10β8 | Tβ3rd | |||||
Northwood: | 245β60 | 112β28 | |||||||
Total: | 761β451 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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See also
References
- β Carey, Jack (March 15, 2010). "Efficient '85 Villanova team mounted tourney's greatest upset". USA Today. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
- β The Ariel. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont. 1954. pp. 200β201.
- β Tipton, Jerry (October 31, 2012). "UK notes: Massimino revisits site of "historic moment"". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
- β Associated Press (November 1, 2012). "Kentucky Rolls Past Northwood in Exhibition". University of Kentucky Athletics. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
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