Fran Fraschilla
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 30, 1958 Brooklyn, New York |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1992–1996 | Manhattan |
| 1996–1998 | St. John's |
| 1999–2002 | New Mexico |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 176–99 (.640) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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3× NCAA Division I Tournament appearances (1993, 1995, 1998) 5× NIT appearances (1994, 1996, 2000–2002) 2× MAAC regular season championships (1993, 1995) MAAC Tournament championship (1993) | |
| Awards | |
| MAAC Coach of the Year (1995) | |
Fran Fraschilla (born August 30, 1958) is an American basketball commentator and former college basketball coach.
Career
He served as head men's basketball coach at Manhattan College, St. John's University and the University of New Mexico, before joining ESPN as broadcast analyst. He currently serves as a game analyst, mostly on Big 12 action, and as a studio analyst for ESPN college basketball programming. He also covers the NBA Draft, focusing mostly on foreign players. He was an assistant coach at Providence with University of Tennessee coach Rick Barnes. His co-broadcaster on many Big 12 games is Brent Musburger. He also serves as ESPN's analyst for its broadcasts of FIBA tournaments. His son, James Fraschilla, played for the University of Oklahoma men's basketball team and was nominated for the Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year Award. His younger son Matthew Fraschilla is a senior playing basketball at Harvard University in 2016-17. Fraschilla's wife Meg O'Connell Fraschilla is a former publicist at the Southwest Conference and LSU.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Manhattan (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) (1992–1996) | |||||||||
| 1992–93 | Manhattan | 23–7 | 12–2 | 1st | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 1993–94 | Manhattan | 20–10 | 10–4 | T-2nd | NIT First Round | ||||
| 1994–95 | Manhattan | 26–5 | 12–2 | 1st | NCAA Second Round | ||||
| 1995–96 | Manhattan | 17–12 | 9–5 | 3rd | NIT First Round | ||||
| Manhattan: | 86–34 (.717) | 43–13 (.768) | |||||||
| St. John's (Big East Conference) (1996–1998) | |||||||||
| 1996–97 | St. John's | 13–14 | 8–10 | 5th (BE6) | |||||
| 1997–98 | St. John's | 22–10 | 13–5 | 2nd (BE6) | NCAA First Round | ||||
| St. John's: | 35–24 (.593) | 21–15 (.583) | |||||||
| New Mexico (Mountain West Conference) (1999–2002) | |||||||||
| 1999–00 | New Mexico | 18–14 | 9–5 | 3rd | NIT Second Round | ||||
| 2000–01 | New Mexico | 21–13 | 6–8 | T-5th | NIT Quarterfinal | ||||
| 2001–02 | New Mexico | 16–14 | 6–8 | 6th | NIT First Round | ||||
| New Mexico: | 55–41 (.573) | 21–21 (.500) | |||||||
| Total: | 176–99 (.640) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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