Bob Walsh
Bob Walsh (born February 23, 1972)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: St. John’s Red Storm (Head coach: Rick Pitino)
Current conference: Big East Conference
Teams coached: Rhode Island College Anchormen, Maine Black Bears
Rhode Island College record: 203-64 (.760)
Maine record: 24-100 (.194)
Overall record^: 0-0 (.000)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Little East (Div III) Regular Season Champion: 5 (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)
- Little East (Div III) Tournament Champion: 6 (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
- NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances: 8 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Awards:
- Little East (Div III) Coach of the Year: 3 (2007, 2009, 2013)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | St. John’s (asst) |
| 2022-2023 | Iona (asst) |
| 2019-2022 | Providence (DPD/scouting) |
| 2014-2018 | Maine |
| 2005-2014 | Rhode Island College |
| 1998-2005 | Providence (asst) |
| 1997-1998 | San Diego (asst) |
| 1994-1996 | Iona (grad. asst) |
Bob Walsh Facts
- Robert Walsh
- Born February 23, 1972
- Hometown: New York City, New York
- Alma Mater: Hamilton College (BS, 1994) / Iona College (MS, 1996)
- Started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Iona, spending one year working under Jerry Welsh and then another for his son, Tim Welsh, who took over as 1995 when Jerry fell ill
- Spent one year out west as an assistant coach at San Diego on Brad Holland‘s staff before returning to the East Coast
- Reunited with Tim Welsh and spent the next seven seasons as one of his assistant coaches at Providence
- Hired in 2005 to be the head coach at D-III Rhode Island College, kicking off a very successful nine-year tenure there
- Won five Little East titles and six Little East Tournament titles, going to eight-straight D-III NCAA Tournaments (2007-14)
- Went 203-64 overall and never finished lower than 3rd in the league; won 19 or more games every season at the helm
- Left RIC in 2014 to be the new head coach at Maine in the D-I America East
- Was not able to find the same success, winning 8 games or less each year before resigning in 2018 with a 24-100 overall record
- Spent the 2018-19 season in Florida as the technical director at IMG Academy
- Returned to Providence, this time to be director of player development and the recruiting/scouting coordinator for Ed Cooley
- Part of the 2021-22 Friars’ team that won the Big East and then reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen
- Joined Rick Pitino‘s staff at Iona in 2022 as an assistant coach and then followed him to St. John’s in 2023
Bob Walsh Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the both the NCAA Division I and Division III levels
