Rashon Burno | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Northern Illinois |
Current Conference: | MAC |
Current Record: | 33–60 |
Birth Date: | 3 February 1978 |
Birth Place: | Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1998–2002 |
Player Team1: | DePaul |
Coach Years1: | 2007–2010 |
Coach Team1: | Marmion Academy |
Coach Years2: | 2010–2011 |
Coach Team2: | Towson (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 2011–2012 |
Coach Team3: | Manhattan (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 2012–2015 |
Coach Team4: | Florida (assistant) |
Coach Years5: | 2015–2021 |
Coach Team5: | Arizona State (assistant) |
Coach Years6: | 2021–present |
Coach Team6: | Northern Illinois |
Overall Record: | 33–60 (college) 42–38 (high school) |
Rashon Burno (born February 3, 1978) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the Northern Illinois Huskies men's basketball team.[1] [2]
Burno played at St. Anthony High School in New Jersey under Bob Hurley, where he was a part of two national championship teams his junior and senior years.[3] He played collegiately at DePaul under Pat Kennedy and was part of the Blue Demons' 2000 NCAA tournament squad.[4]
Burno got his coaching start as the head basketball coach at Marmion Academy from 2007 to 2010 where he also served as an economics and physical education teacher before landing his first college coaching job as an assistant at Towson, reuniting with his college head coach Kennedy.[3] He'd then move on to assistant coaching stops at Manhattan, and then four years under Billy Donovan at Florida from 2012 to 2015, where he was part of three Elite Eight teams and the 2014 NCAA Final Four team.[5] [6] In 2015, he joined Bobby Hurley's staff at Arizona State.[7]
On March 6, 2021, Burno was named the 29th head coach in Northern Illinois history, replacing Mark Montgomery.[8] [2]