Doug Bruno
Bruno at the Indiana Convention Center on April 4, 2011
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| Sport(s) | Women's college basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | DePaul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 7, 1950 Chicago, Illinois |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1974 | Parker HS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | St. Vincent DePaul HS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | DePaul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1978–1980 | Chicago Hustle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1988 | Loyola (IL) (asst.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–present | DePaul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall | 614–318 (.659) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| C-USA Coach of the Year 2005 Conference USA’s Coach of the Decade |
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Richard Douglas "Doug" Bruno (born November 7, 1950) is the head coach of the DePaul Blue Demons women's basketball team. In 2016, he completed his 30th season as head coach. In 2007, Bruno completed a two-year term as President of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, a position to which he was elected by his peers. Under his tenure, the Blue Demons have qualified for post-season competition play in 21 of his 30 seasons, including the last 14 seasons.
Born Richard Douglas Bruno in Chicago, Doug Bruno played high school basketball at Quigley Preparatory Seminary South. Bruno played college basketball at DePaul University under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Ray Meyer, earning a letter three years, and starting two seasons.
Bruno started his coaching career in 1973–74 at the high school level, first as an assistant coach for the boys' team at Francis Parker High School in Chicago, then as a head coach in 1974–75 for the boys' team at St. Vincent DePaul High School.
Bruno was named the head coach of the DePaul Blue Demons women's basketball program in 1976. In the first season, the team achieved an 11–10 record,. In the second season the team achieved a 16–6 record, the most wins in the program's history.
Bruno left DePaul to become the head coach of the Chicago Hustle, a women's basketball team in the Women's Professional Basketball League. They were originally going to be called the Hustlers, but that name reminded some of hookers. Bruno suggested changing the name to simply the Hustle. On December 9, 1978, the Chicago Hustle played the Milwaukee Does in what was not just the inaugural game of the Women's Professional Basketball League, but the first professional women's basketball game in the United States. The game was played in the MECCA Arena (now U.S. Cellular Arena) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bruno was 27 years old, younger than some of his players, trying to keep them calm while waiting to start their first professional game in front of national press services. When an English radio announcer interrupted him with advice, he lessened the tension with a mashup of some famous speeches, invoking the Duke of Wellington and Knute Rockne. He implored his teams, "remember girls, the battle of Dunkirk was won on the playing fields of Eton. Now, go out there and win one for the Gipper."
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