Richard Regan (1930-2002)
Teams coached: Seton Hall Pirates
Seton Hall record: 112-131 (.461)
Overall record: 112-131 (.461)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 1960-1970 | Seton Hall |
Richard Regan Facts
- Richard Joseph Regan
- Born November 23, 1930
- Died December 24, 2002
- Hometown: Newark, New Jersey
- Alma Mater: Seton Hall University (BA, 1953)
- Was a star player for coach John Russell at Seton Hall; helped the Pirates to three-straight NITs, winning the NIT title in 1953
- Had his jersey #12 retired by the program; inducted into the Seton Hall Athletic HOF in 1973
- Selected 4th overall in the 1953 NBA Draft by the Rochester Royals, but deferred his career two years to serve in the US Marine Corps
- Spent three seasons with the Royals (who moved to Cincinnati in 1957) and one with the Baltimore Bullets of the EPBL
- Named to the NBA All-Star team in 1957; averaged 8.3 ppg, 2.6 rpg and 2.8 apg over his career
- Returned to Seton Hall in 1960 to be the head basketball coach; went 112-131 in ten seasons at the helm
- Stepped down from coaching in 1970 and spent the next two years as assistant athletic director at the school
- Became the athletic director in 1972, serving in that role for the next thirteen years until 1985
- As AD, Regan launched women’s athletics at SHU (1973) and became one of the founding ADs of the Big East Conference (1979)
- Worked as executive director of the Pirate Blue Athletic Fund until 1998 when he became special asst to the VP of University Affairs
- Passed away in December 2002 at the age of 72; survived by wife, Sue, and eight children
Richard Regan Coaching Tree
- John Thurston (St. Francis Brooklyn (w), Northwood (w), Wingate, James Madison, FDU-Florham)