Jared Grasso
Jared Grasso (born May 11, 1980)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach (currently on leave)
Current team: Bryant Bulldogs
Current conference: America East Conference
Fordham record: 1-22 (.043)
Bryant record: 79-67 (.541)
Overall record: 80-89 (.473)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2022)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- CBI Appearances: 1 (2021)
- America East Regular Season Champion: 0
- NEC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2022)
- America East Tournament Champion: 0
- NEC Tournament Champion: 1 (2022)
Awards:
- NEC Coach of the Year: 1 (2022)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2018-present | Bryant |
| 2011-2018 | Iona (assoc. HC) |
| 2010-2011 | Iona (asst) |
| 2009-2010 | Fordham (interim HC) |
| 2006-2009 | Fordham (asst) |
| 2005-2006 | Quinnipiac (asst) |
| 2003-2005 | Hartford (asst) |
| 2002-2003 | Hofstra (grad. asst) |
Jared Grasso Facts
- Jared Grasso
- Born May 11, 1980
- Hometown: Syosset, New York
- Alma Mater: Quinnipiac University (BA, 2002)
- Four-year starter and two-year captain for head coach Joe DeSantis at Quinnipiac
- Started coaching right away, spending one year as a grad manager at Hofstra under Tom Pecora and then two years as one of Larry Harrison’s assistants at Hartford
- Two more assistant roles included one year at alma mater Quinnipiac under DeSantis and then three years as an assistant at Fordham under Dereck Whittenburg
- Five games into the 2009-10 season, Whittenburg was fired and Grasso was elevated to interim head coach; he went 1-22 in 23 games at the helm
- Hired in 2010 to be an assistant at Iona under Tim Cluess; elevated to associate head coach a year later
- Named the new head coach at Bryant in April 2018; through five seasons he has an overall record of 79-67
- After reaching the CBI in 2021, he led the Bulldogs to their first-ever NEC title in 2022; Grasso was named NEC COY, then led the team to the NCAA Tournament for the first time after winning the NEC Tournament
- In September 2023, the University confirmed that Grasso was on a leave of absence from the program but did not provide any other details
- Along with his wife, Andrea, has one son
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