1. Peter Joseph Carril was an American basketball coach.
17 Facts About Pete Carril
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Pete Carril is best known as head coach of Princeton University for 30 years and for his use of the "Princeton offense".
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Pete Carril coached at Lehigh University and as an assistant with the Sacramento Kings in the National Basketball Association.
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Pete Carril attended Liberty High School in his hometown, where he was an all-state selection for Pennsylvania.
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Pete Carril then studied at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, playing college basketball for the Lafayette Leopards under Butch van Breda Kolff.
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Pete Carril was honored as a Little All-American during his senior year in 1952.
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In 1954, Pete Carril was hired as the junior varsity basketball coach and ninth grade Pennsylvania history teacher at Easton Area High School in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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Four years later, in 1958, Pete Carril was named the varsity coach at Reading Senior High School in Reading, Pennsylvania, where Gary Walters, the former Princeton Tigers athletic director and earlier Princeton basketball point guard played basketball under him at Liberty High School.
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Pete Carril is the only men's coach to win 500 games without the benefit of athletic scholarships for his players.
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Pete Carril won or shared 13 Ivy League championships and received 11 NCAA tournament berths and 2 NIT bids.
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Pete Carril's Tigers had the nation's best scoring defense in 14 out of 21 years from 1975 to 1996, including eight in a row from 1988 to 1996.
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Pete Carril was enshrined in both the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997, following his retirement from Princeton.
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Pete Carril was an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association for 10 years until his retirement in 2006.
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Pete Carril subsequently rejoined the Kings as an assistant for the 2009 season.
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Pete Carril suffered a heart attack in 2000, which spurred him to quit smoking Macanudo cigars.
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Pete Carril died on August 15,2022, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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Pete Carril was 92, and suffered a stroke prior to his death.