| Dick DiBiaso | |
| Birth Date: | 6 February 1941 |
| Death Place: | Auburn, California, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1958–1962 |
| Player Team1: | Mansfield State |
| Player Positions: | Point guard |
| Coach Years1: | 1964–1968 |
| Coach Team1: | Beacon HS |
| Coach Years2: | 1968–1971 |
| Coach Team2: | Virginia (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 1971–1975 |
| Coach Team3: | Notre Dame (assistant) |
| Coach Years4: | 1975–1982 |
| Coach Team4: | Stanford |
| Overall Record: | 70–118 |
| Awards: | Pac-8 Co-Coach of the Year (1976) |
Richard J. DiBiaso (February 6, 1941 – October 19, 2017) was an American college basketball coach for Stanford University.
From Monessen, Pennsylvania, DiBiaso played college basketball for coach Bill Gibson at Mansfield State (now Mansfield University of Pennsylvania). Years later, DiBiaso got his college coaching break from Beacon High School in Beacon, New York, when Gibson hired him as an assistant at Virginia. In 1971, Digger Phelps added DiBiaso to his first staff at Notre Dame, where he stayed until 1975.[1]
in 1975, DiBiaso was named head coach at Stanford. In his first season, DiBiaso took a team that returned one starter and experienced significant injuries to a 9–18 record. Eleven of the losses were by six points are fewer. His efforts were recognized at the end of the season when he was named Pac-8 Conference co-coach of the year with George Raveling.[2] DiBiaso would stay for several more seasons and was given a two-year contract in February 1981.[3] However, he announced he was resigning at the end of the 1981–82 season in February 1982.[4]
DiBiaso died on October 19, 2017, in Auburn, California.[5]