Pete Carril

Pete Carril (1930-2022)

Teams coached: Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Princeton Tigers
Lehigh record: 11-12 (.478)
Princeton record: 514-261 (.663)
Overall record: 525-273 (.658)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  11  (1969, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  1  (1975)
• NIT Appearances:  2  (1972, 1975)
• Ivy League Regular Season Champion:  13  (1968, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996)

Awards:

• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted 1997)
• National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted 2006)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2008-2011	Sacramento Kings (asst)
2007-2008	Washington Wizards (vol. asst)
1996-2006	Sacramento Kings (asst)
1967-1996	Princeton
1966-1967	Lehigh

Pete Carril Facts

• Peter Joseph Carril
• Born July 10, 1930
• Died August 15, 2022
• Hometown: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Alma Mater: Lafayette College (BA, 1952)
• After graduating from Liberty HS (PA), Carril played at Lafayette under head coach Butch Van Breda Kolff
• Served in the US Army after graduating, right around the time the Korean War was ending
• Started his coaching career in 1954 as JV coach at Easton HS (PA); from 1958-66, Carril was head coach at Reading HS (PA)
• Spent one year as the head coach at Lehigh before arriving at Princeton in 1967
• In 29 years as the head coach of the Princeton Tigers, Carril won 514 games, 13 Ivy League titles, reached the NCAA Tournament 11 times and won the 1975 NIT Championship
  • Carril perfected and popularized the ‘Princeton offense’ first used by former Tigers head coach Cappy Cappon in the 1930s
  • Carril’s large coaching tree (see below) has helped spread the offense across college basketball; the principles of the offense have been used by a number of other head coaches, as well
• After leaving Princeton in 1996, Carril spent ten seasons as an assistant with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, working with head coaches Garry St. Jean, Eddie Jordan and Rick Adelman
  • Spent one year as a volunteer assistant for Eddie Jordan and the Washington Wizards
  • Returned to Sacramento in 2008, spending another three seasons as an assistant under Kenny Natt, then Paul Westphal
• Included in the inaugural 2006 class of the College Basketball HOF and inducted in 2011 to the Naismith HOF
• Pete Carril passed away in August 2022 at the age of 92

Pete Carril Coaching Tree

• David Blatt (Cleveland Cavaliers, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Russian National Team, others)
• Mike Brennan (American)
• Bill Carmody (Holy Cross, Northwestern, Princeton)
• Bob Dukiet (Gannon, Marquette, Saint Peter’s)
• Brian Earl (William & Mary, Cornell)
• Mitch Henderson (Princeton)
• Armond Hill (Columbia)
• Sydney Johnson (Fairfield, Princeton)
• Chris Mooney (Richmond, Air Force, Arcadia)
• Craig Robinson (Oregon State, Brown)
• Joe Scott (Denver, Princeton, Air Force)
• John Thompson III (Georgetown, Princeton)
• Gary Walters (Providence, Dartmouth, Union NY, Middlebury)