NCAA Division I tournament (1985) 3× Eastern 8 regular season (1978–1980) 2× Eastern 8 tournament (1978, 1980) 2× Big East regular season (1982, 1983) 7× Sun Conference regular season (2007–2009, 2011–2013, 2016) 3× Sun Conference tournament (2010, 2012, 2014)
Awards
2× Eastern 8 Coach of the Year (1977, 1979) Big East Coach of the Year (1982)
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013
Roland Vincent Massimino (November 13, 1934 – August 30, 2017) was an American basketball coach. He 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), Cleveland State University (1996–2003), and at Northwood University's Florida campus, which was sold in 2014 to Keiser University (2006–2017). He reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament five times (all with Villanova) and reached the NAIA Semi-final twice.
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, in the title game. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest upsets in NCAA history.[1]
^Carey, Jack (March 15, 2010). "Efficient '85 Villanova team mounted tourney's greatest upset". USA Today. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
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Conference game with a 78–63 victory over St. John's. Neptune joined RollieMassimino as the two Villanova coaches to finish with a .500 or better conference...
basketball for the Keiser University Seahawks, where he was coached by RollieMassimino. Stanley Whittaker attended Frank Phillips College from 2013 to 2015...
Calhoun attended Cleveland State University and played two seasons under RollieMassimino. He moved on to Cincinnati and acted as a student assistant under Bob...
Eastern bracket (Jim Boeheim, John Thompson, Lute Olson, Rick Pitino and RollieMassimino) would later win their first (and in Pitino's case, the first of more...
the 1980–81 season. Olive was an assistant coach at Villanova under RollieMassimino, from 1985 to 1992. He was named head coach at Loyola Marymount in...
a berth to the 3rd round of the NIT in 1992. In 1992, he succeeded RollieMassimino as head coach at Villanova, where he guided the team to seven postseason...
graduation rate for 2010–13. In 1985, under the direction of coach RollieMassimino, the men's basketball team won the NCAA Division I men's basketball...
of RollieMassimino in 2005, as Director of Basketball Operations for both men's and women's basketball. Per ESPN, on December 14, 2016, Massimino, Keiser...
Lou Campanelli. Fratello was an assistant coach at Villanova under RollieMassimino before going to the NBA as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks...
out of state. Kittles contemplated on transferring when head coach RollieMassimino left for UNLV before his freshman year. New head coach Steve Lappas...
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