Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Brooklyn, New York |
August 30, 1958
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1992–1996 | Manhattan |
1996–1998 | St. John's |
1999–2002 | New Mexico |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 176–99 (.640) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
3× NCAA Division I Tournament appearances (1993, 1995, 1998) 5× NIT appearances (1994, 1996, 2000–2002) 2× MAAC regular season championships (1993, 1995) MAAC Tournament championship (1993) |
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Awards | |
MAAC Coach of the Year (1995) |
Francis John Fraschilla (born August 30, 1958) is an American basketball commentator and former college basketball coach.
Fraschilla was an assistant coach at Providence for current University of Tennessee coach Rick Barnes. He then served as head men's basketball coach at Manhattan College, St. John's University and the University of New Mexico before joining ESPN as a broadcast analyst. He currently serves as a game analyst, mostly on Big 12 action, and as a studio analyst for ESPN college basketball programming. He also covers the NBA Draft, focusing mostly on foreign players. His co-broadcaster on many Big 12 games previously was Brent Musburger. Fraschilla also serves as ESPN's analyst for its broadcasts of FIBA tournaments.
Fraschilla's son, James Fraschilla, played for the University of Oklahoma men's basketball team and was nominated for the Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year Award. His younger son, Matthew Fraschilla, is a senior playing basketball at Harvard University in 2016-17. Fraschilla's wife, Meg O'Connell Fraschilla, is a former publicist at the Southwest Conference and LSU.
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion