Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepage (born August 5, 1951)
Teams coached: Penn Quakers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Penn record: 40-39 (.506)
Rutgers record: 23-63 (.267)
Overall record: 63-102 (.382)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (1985)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Ivy League Regular Season Champion: 1 (1985)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
1988-1990 | Virginia (asst) |
1985-1988 | Rutgers |
1982-1985 | Penn |
1976-1982 | Virginia (asst) |
1975-1976 | Yale (asst) |
1973-1975 | Villanova (asst) |
Craig Littlepage Facts
- Craig Littlepage
- Born August 5, 1951
- Hometown: La Mott, Pennsylvania
- Alma Mater: University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1973)
- Played at Penn for head coaches Dick Harter and Chuck Daly and graduated from the Wharton School
- Started his coaching career at Villanova, where he was an assistant under Rollie Massimino
- Spent one year at Yale assisting Ray Carazo then was hired in 1976 to join Terry Holland‘s staff at Virginia
- During his six seasons, he was part of the 1980 NIT title and the 1981 NCAA Final Four
- Became the head coach at his alma mater in 1982, leading the Quakers for three seasons
- Won the Ivy League title in 1985 for a berth in the NCAA Tournament; went 40-39 overall
- Left for Rutgers in 1985, coaching the Scarlet Knights for the next three years
- Finished below .500 each year and was let go in 1988
- Spent two more years assisting Holland at Virginia before becoming assistant AD at the school in 1990
- Asst AD (1990-91), associate AD (1991-95) and senior associate AD (1995-2001)
- Became the athletic director in 2001, holding that position until his retirement in 2017
- Among the coaches he hired was Tony Bennett, who led the UVA to its first NCAA title in 2019
- Also hired Brian O’Connor as head baseball coach in 2004, who led the Cavaliers to win the College World Series 2015 (after a Runner-up finish in 2014)
Craig Littlepage Coaching Tree
- Brian Ellerbe (Michigan, Loyola MD)
- Fran McCaffery (Iowa, Siena, UNC Greensboro, Lehigh)
- Tom Schneider (Loyola MD, Penn, Lehigh)