Joe Mihalich
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Hofstra |
| Conference | CAA |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 29, 1956 Washington, D.C. |
| Playing career | |
| 1974–1978 | La Salle |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1978–1981 | DeMatha Catholic HS (asst.) |
| 1981–1998 | La Salle (asst.) |
| 1998–2013 | Niagara |
| 2013–present | Hofstra |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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| Awards | |
| 3× MAAC Coach of the Year (1999, 2005, 2013) | |
Joe Mihalich (born August 29, 1956) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Hofstra University.
Mihalich was named head coach on April 10, 2013. Prior to that, he led Niagara to two NCAA tournaments, in 2005 and 2007, and three National Invitation Tournament, in 2004, 2009 and 2013.
He received the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award in 2013.
Mihalich spent 17 years, from 1981-1998, at his Alma Mater as an Assistant Coach under Head Coaches Dave “Lefty” Ervin and the legendary William “Speedy” Morris. Mihalich was a part of 8 postseason appearances including 5 NCAA Tournament teams. Mihalich coached several players at La Salle who would go on to play professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA); including Simmons, Doug Overton, Randy Woods and Tim Legler.
The son of a LaSalle professor, his basketball career began as a guard on the LaSalle Explorers team as a walk-on, playing from 1974 to 1978. Mihalich literally was raised up the street from the LaSalle campus, on Chew Avenue in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. He was in the right place at the right time, playing on teams coached by Paul Westhead. The Explorers made the NCAA tournament in Mihalich's freshman year. Their star was Joe Bryant, Kobe's dad. La Salle eventually lost in overtime to Syracuse, which made the Final Four.
Basketball and sports were already in his family blood. His late father, Joseph C. Mihalich, was a pitcher in the New York Yankees farm system in the late 1940s, rooming with Whitey Ford before arm troubles sent him on the road to college studies and LaSalle, where the elder Mihalich became a professor in philosophy, carving an academic niche in the subject of sports philosophy, while his son, Joseph A., played for Westhead before starting his coaching career.
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