Pete Gillen

Pete Gillen (born June 20, 1947) is an American former college basketball head coach of the Division I Xavier Musketeers, Providence Friars and Virginia Cavaliers and is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. Gillen is currently a college basketball analyst with the CBS Sports Network.

Biography

Playing career

Gillen was two sport athlete in baseball and basketball at Fairfield University where he received his bachelor's degree in English Literature in 1968.

Coaching career

Coach Gillen began his coaching career at his high school alma mater Brooklyn Prep while he was an English teacher at a Catholic elementary school in the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn, Holy Name of Jesus (1970 -1973). He soon moved to the collegiate level when he joined the coaching staff of the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, with Rick Pitino as one of his fellow assistants. Gillen followed that with subsequent assistant coaching stints at the Virginia Military Institute; Villanova University under Rollie Massimino, and the University of Notre Dame under Digger Phelps from 1980 to 1985.

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"Not at all. That's ridiculous. Bob was a great coach; we banged heads a couple times, but he was a great competitor. It's the universities. It's not the coaches. It's the institutions. It's the alumni, and the students. It's still a great rivalry. It takes a little sizzle away (without Huggins), but once the ball goes up, it goes out the window."
"He's a tremendous person. He comes from a great family. He had a lot of character."
"He always had a big heart. Little kids would want him to sign their shirts, and he enjoyed doing that. He knew what it was like. It wasn't easy growing up for him. People helped him out. He's given back, because he knows in his heart he could have gotten lost on the streets in New York."
"A&M doesn't deserve (an NCAA berth) over Houston, in my opinion. They haven't beaten an LSU on the road or an Arizona, which has turned out to be a great team. A&M had a wonderful win over the Longhorns, but that's it."
"He's more of a half-court coach and he runs really good stuff. He's a tremendous defensive coach. I think he'll do a great job. He's a good person, and he's a hard worker."
"Oden is unbelievable. I can't think of anyone like him in the past 15 years. He's so athletic, and he's a winner."
"It's a great experience for these kids, the culmination of their high school careers. They get a chance to play on national television, and it's great promotion for college basketball."
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