Nick DiPillo | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Le Moyne |
Current Conference: | NEC |
Alma Mater: | Fairleigh Dickinson |
Coach Years1: | 2003–2005 |
Coach Team1: | Kean University (asst.) |
Coach Years2: | 2005–2009 |
Coach Team2: | New York Liberty (asst.) |
Admin Years1: | 2014–2017 |
Admin Team1: | Seton Hall (player development) |
Coach Years3: | 2018–2019 |
Coach Team3: | Seton Hall (asst.) |
Coach Years4: | 2019–2022 |
Coach Team4: | Scranton |
Coach Years5: | 2022–2023 |
Coach Team5: | Pittsburgh (asst.) |
Coach Years6: | 2023–2024 |
Coach Team6: | Bowling Green (asst.) |
Coach Years7: | 2024–present |
Coach Team7: | Le Moyne |
Overall Record: | 58–8 |
Nick DiPillo is the head coach for Le Moyne.[1] He was previously an assistant coach for Bowling Green Falcons women's basketball program.[2] Prior to his time with the Falcons, DiPillo was the head coach of the women's basketball team at Scranton from 2019 to 2022.
DiPillo is from North Brunswick, NJ. He played collegiate basketball for Rutgers–Camden before transferring to Fairleigh Dickinson[3] [4] [5]
DiPillo started his coaching career as an assistant coach for Kean University men's basketball team. The Cougars compiled a 34–19 record during his two-year stint and captured the ECAC Metro Championship in 2005.
He then served as an assistant coach for the New York Liberty of the WNBA from 2004 to the spring of 2009. He would help the Liberty make four playoff appearances (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008). Among other roles, DiPillo served as post coach for the Liberty. He also coached a trio of WNBA All-Stars and three Olympians while with the Liberty, including 2007 WNBA Most Improved Player Janel McCarville.
From 2010 to 2014, DiPillo served as a skills trainer and camp director at the Monroe Sports Center in Monroe, New Jersey.[6]
In 2014, DiPillo served as Seton Hall's program director of player development. His last two seasons, he was an assistant coach. The Pirates were 94-66 in the five seasons DiPillo was on the staff. In 2015, Seton Hall won their first Big East Conference championship in program history and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1995.[7] [8]
On June 12, 2019, DiPillo was named seventh head coach in the University of Scranton women's basketball program's 45-year history.[9] In three seasons, DiPillo compiled a 58-8 record and two Landmark Conference championships and a NCAA Sweet Sixteen birth.
On June 21, 2022, DiPillo was hired as an assistant coach of Pittsburgh.[10] [11]
In May of 2023, DiPillo joined Bowling Green as an assistant basketball coach.[12]
In May 2024, DiPillo was named as the head coach of the Le Moyne College women's basketball program.[13]