Phil Martelli
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Saint Joseph's |
| Conference | Atlantic 10 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | August 31, 1954 |
| Playing career | |
| 1972–1976 | Widener |
| Position(s) | Point guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1977–1978 | Widener (asst.) |
| 1978–1985 | Bishop Kenrick HS |
| 1985–1995 | Saint Joseph's (asst.) |
| 1995–present | Saint Joseph's |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 403-273 (.596) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3× Atlantic 10 Tournament championship (1997, 2014, 2016) 4× Atlantic 10 regular season championship (1997, 2001, 2004, 2005) |
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| Awards | |
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AP National Coach of the Year (2004) Naismith Coach of the Year (2004) Henry Iba Award (2004) 4× Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (1997, 2001, 2004, 2005) |
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Philip Martelli Sr. (born August 31, 1954) is an American college basketball coach and current coach of the Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team. He has led Saint Joseph's to seven NCAA Tournaments and six NITs in 21 seasons as head coach.
Martelli was a point guard for Widener University. As point guard, he was part of the NCAA Division III Tournament teams in 1974-75 and 1975–76, and set the school's single season and career assist marks.
Martelli began his career on Hawk Hill with SJU's 1985-86 NCAA Tournament team. In his decade as an assistant, he was part of the Hawks' NIT teams in 1992-93 and 1994-95. After 10 years as an assistant under Jim Boyle and John Griffin, Martelli was named the 14th coach in school history on July 20, 1995, and just the third non-alumnus to coach the school.
In his first season as head coach (1995–96) his team reached the final game of the NIT Tournament. In his second year, under the floor generalship of Junior point guard Rashid Bey, and help from Arthur "Yah" Davis and Dmitri Domani, Martelli's Hawks captured the Atlantic 10 crown and made it into the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA tournament.
They would not duplicate that success until landing future Naismith College Player of the Year Jameer Nelson and current NBA players Delonte West and Dwayne Jones. With Nelson as point guard, Martelli led the 2003-04 Hawks to the greatest season in school history. The Hawks went 27-0 regular season. The Hawks lost to Xavier in the Atlantic 10 Tournament, and reached the Elite Eight, ultimately losing to Oklahoma State to finish with a record of 30-2. This is "officially" the deepest run that St. Joseph's has ever made in the tournament; the 1960-61 team went all the way to the Final Four and won the third-place game, but that run was scrubbed from the books due to a gambling scandal. That year, Martelli was named Naismith College Coach of the Year.
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