Rollie Massimino
Massimino in Philadelphia on March 21, 2009
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Keiser |
| Conference | The Sun |
| Record | 245–60 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
November 13, 1934 Hillside, New Jersey |
| Playing career | |
| 1953–1956 | Vermont |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1959–1962 | Cranford HS (assistant) |
| 1962–1965 | Hillside HS |
| 1965–1969 | Lexington HS |
| 1969–1971 | Stony Brook |
| 1972–1973 | Penn (assistant) |
| 1973–1992 | Villanova |
| 1992–1994 | UNLV |
| 1996–2003 | Cleveland State |
| 2006–present | Keiser University |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 800–448 (college) |
| Tournaments | 0–2 (NCAA College Division) 21–10 (NCAA Division I) 4–5 (NIT) 11–7 (NAIA Division II) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA Division I (1985) 3× Eastern 8 regular season (1978–1980) 2× Eastern 8 Tournament (1978, 1980) 2× Big East regular season (1982, 1983) 6× TSC regular season (2007–2009, 2011– 2013) 3× TSC Tournament (2010, 2012, 2014) |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013 |
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Roland Vincent "Rollie" Massimino (born November 13, 1934) is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Keiser University in West Palm Beach, Florida, a position he has held since 2006, when the university was known as Northwood University. Massimino previously served as the head men's basketball coach at Stony Brook University (1969–1971), Villanova University (1973–1992), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1992–1994), and Cleveland State University (1996–2003). At Villanova, he led his 1984–85 team to the NCAA Championship. Entering the 1985 NCAA Tournament as an eight seed, Villanova defeated their heavily favored Big East Conference foe, the Georgetown Hoyas, who had Patrick Ewing, in the National Championship Game. The upset is widely regarded as one of the greatest in North American sports history.
Roland Massimino graduated from Hillside High School in Hillside, New Jersey, in 1952. He has a master's degree equivalent in health and physical education from Rutgers University (1959) and a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Vermont (1956). While a student at UVM, he became a member of the Alpha-Lambda Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
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