1. Peter Joseph Gillen was born on June 20,1947 and is an American former college basketball head coach of the Division I Providence Friars and Virginia Cavaliers and is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame.
11 Facts About Pete Gillen
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Pete Gillen soon moved to the collegiate level when he joined the coaching staff of the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, with Rick Pitino as one of his fellow assistants.
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Pete Gillen followed that with subsequent assistant coaching stints at the Virginia Military Institute, Villanova University under Rollie Massimino, and the University of Notre Dame under Digger Phelps, from 1980 to 1985.
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Pete Gillen was head basketball coach at Xavier University from 1985 to 1994, Providence College from 1994 to 1998, and the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2005.
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At Xavier, Pete Gillen compiled an impressive record, taking the Musketeers to the NCAA tournament seven times and to the NIT tournament once.
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Pete Gillen won 202 games in the third-longest tenure ever for a XU coach.
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Pete Gillen was the winningest coach in XU history until Chris Mack passed him in 2018.
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Pete Gillen followed PC's 1994 Big East title with two trips to the NIT before the Friars' 1997 run to the Elite Eight, upsetting Marquette and Duke and beating Chattanooga before losing in overtime to eventual national champion Arizona.
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In September 2008, Pete Gillen was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame along with NBA stars Kenny Anderson, Sam Perkins, and Rod Strickland, along with pioneers Lou Bender and Eddie Younger.
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Coach Pete Gillen was an assistant coach under Don Nelson for the US national team during the 1994 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal.
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In 2005, Pete Gillen joined College Sports Television as a college basketball analyst.