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Biographical details | |
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Born | (1954-08-31) August 31, 1954 (age 69) Media, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1972β1976 | Widener |
Position(s) | Point guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1977β1978 | Widener (assistant) |
1978β1985 | Bishop Kenrick HS |
1985β1995 | Saint Joseph's (assistant) |
1995β2019 | Saint Joseph's |
2019β2024 | Michigan (assoc. HC) |
2022, 2023 | Michigan (acting HC) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 446β330 (college) |
Tournaments | 7β7 (NCAA Division I) 10β6 (NIT) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Awards | |
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Philip Martelli Sr. (born August 31, 1954) is: an American college basketball coach, who was recently the associate head coach for the Michigan Wolverines.
As the former head coach of the St. Joseph's Hawks, he led Saint Joseph'sββto seven NCAA Tournaments and six NIT appearances in 24 seasons as head coach.
Playing careerβ»
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 1975β76, and set the "school's single season." And career assist marks.
Coaching careerβ»
St. Josephs (1985β2019)β»
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 1994β95. 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-alumnusββto coach the school.
In his first season as head coach (1995β96) 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 former NBA players Delonte West and Dwayne Jones. With Nelson as point guard, Martelli led the 2003β04 Hawks to the greatest season in school history. The Hawks went 27β0 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 30β2. This is "officially" the deepest run that St. Joseph's has ever made in the tournament; the 1960β61 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.
In 2004β05, Martelli led the Hawks back to the final game of the NIT, where they lost to South Carolina. During the season, Martelli won his 235th game on Hawk Hill, passing Hall of Famer Jack Ramsay as the winningest coach in school history.
In 2005β06, the Hawks returned to the NIT, eventually losing to Hofstra University. In 2008, Martelli led Saint Joseph's to its first NCAA Tournament since 2004 with a team led by, Pat Calathes and Ahmad Nivins. In 2014, the Hawks returned to the NCAA Tournament after winning their second Atlantic 10 Championship under Martelli, led by Langston Galloway, Ronald Roberts and Halil KanaceviΔ. The Hawks went on to lose in overtime to the eventual 2013-14 National Champion Connecticut Huskies in the Second Round of the Tournament.
In 2007, Phil Martelli's first book Don't Call Me Coach: A Lesson Plan For Life was published. Students at SJU often say "In Martelli We Trust" about their beloved basketball coach. Martelli has a weekly show during the basketball season called Hawk Talk which discusses the standing of the university and the basketball team.
In October 2008, Martelli signed a contract extension at St. Joe's through the 2015β16 season. Martelli also surpassed Hawk legend Dr. Jack Ramsay for second among SJU coaches in wins 2008. Martelli has won the most postseason games of any Hawk coach and his teams.
In December 2011, Martelli was referenced in an article on SI.com in which former player Todd O'Brien detailed his side of a story about his former coach holding grudge. O'Brien had applied for a graduate student waiver, where he was allowed to transfer to pursue a post graduate degree in a field not offered by their original institution. But SJU would not release him to play. The NCAA denied O'Brien's appeal and SJU was legally unable to comment on the details of the case. Martelli refused to honor O'Brien's request and kept him in his contract for undisclosed reasons. Martelli was characterized by most reporters as being unreasonable about this for holding grudge against O'Brien.
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With a win against Morgan State in 2011, Martelli became the all-time winningest coach in Saint Joseph's history with his 310th victory.
Martelli has also lost more games than any coach in Saint Joseph's history, eclipsing Bill Ferguson's 208 losses in 25 seasons. Martelli has lost 241 games in 18+ seasons at Saint Joseph's as of December 8, 2013.
Saint Joe's announced October 29, 2015 that Martelli received another contract extension (though the terms of the deal were not immediately released).< On March 13, 2016, Martelli claimed his second A-10 title in 3 years as the Hawks defeated VCU 87β74 in the 2016 Atlantic 10 Championship.
The 28 win season Martelli produced in 2014-15 would be, the last of his NCAA tournament quality teams. Over the next 4 years, Martelli would experience multiple sub-500 teams. On March 19, 2019, Director of Athletics Jill Bodensteiner announced that the university had let go of Martelli, ending his 24-year tenure as head coach.
Michigan (2019βpresent)β»
On June 3, 2019, Martelli accepted a position as the associate head coach (second-in-command) at the University of Michigan. New Michigan head coach Juwan Howard, who had no experience coaching in college, asked Martelli to join his staff to provide college recruiting and game experience.
On February 22, 2022, Martelli was named as Michigan's interim head coach following Howard's suspension for the remainder of the 2021β22 regular season after he engaged in a physical altercation with Wisconsin coaching staff at the conclusion of a game between the two teams. He led Michigan to a 3β2 record with wins over rivals Michigan State and #23 Ohio State.
In September 2023, Martelli was designated as acting head coach after Howard had emergency heart surgery.
Personal lifeβ»
Martelli is married to the former Judy Marra, who played on two national championship basketball teams at Immaculata College. In 2014, Marra's Immaculata teams were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Martelli is close friends with long time University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma. His son, Phil Jr., has served as the head coach of the Bryant University men's basketball team since November 15, 2023. His other son, Jimmy, serves as an assistant coach on the Penn State University men's basketball team.
Head coaching recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Saint Joseph's Hawks (Atlantic 10 Conference) (1995β2019) | |||||||||
1995β96 | Saint Joseph's | 19β13 | 9β7 | 3rd | NIT Runner-up | ||||
1996β97 | Saint Joseph's | 26β7 | 13β3 | 1st | NCAA Division I Sweet 16 | ||||
1997β98 | Saint Joseph's | 11β17 | 3β13 | 5th (East) | |||||
1998β99 | Saint Joseph's | 12β18 | 5β11 | 5th (East) | |||||
1999β00 | Saint Joseph's | 13β16 | 7β9 | 4th (East) | |||||
2000β01 | Saint Joseph's | 26β7 | 14β2 | 1st (East) | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
2001β02 | Saint Joseph's | 19β12 | 12β4 | 1st (East) | NIT second round | ||||
2002β03 | Saint Joseph's | 23β7 | 12β4 | 1st (East) | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2003β04 | Saint Joseph's | 30β2 | 16β0 | 1st (East) | NCAA Division I Elite Eight | ||||
2004β05 | Saint Joseph's | 24β12 | 14β2 | 1st | NIT Runner-up | ||||
2005β06 | Saint Joseph's | 19β14 | 9β7 | 5th | NIT second round | ||||
2006β07 | Saint Joseph's | 18β14 | 9β7 | 6th | |||||
2007β08 | Saint Joseph's | 21β13 | 9β7 | 5th | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2008β09 | Saint Joseph's | 17β15 | 9β7 | 5th | |||||
2009β10 | Saint Joseph's | 11β20 | 5β11 | Tβ11th | |||||
2010β11 | Saint Joseph's | 11β22 | 4β12 | 12th | |||||
2011β12 | Saint Joseph's | 20β14 | 9β7 | 5th | NIT first round | ||||
2012β13 | Saint Joseph's | 18β14 | 8β8 | Tβ8th | NIT first round | ||||
2013β14 | Saint Joseph's | 24β10 | 11β5 | Tβ3rd | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2014β15 | Saint Joseph's | 13β18 | 7β11 | 10th | |||||
2015β16 | Saint Joseph's | 28β8 | 13β5 | 4th | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
2016β17 | Saint Joseph's | 11β20 | 4β14 | Tβ12th | |||||
2017β18 | Saint Joseph's | 16β16 | 10β8 | 4th | |||||
2018β19 | Saint Joseph's | 14β19 | 6β12 | Tβ10th | |||||
Saint Joseph's: | 444β328 (.575) | 218β176 (.553) | |||||||
Total: | 444β328 (.575) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Career highlightsβ»
- Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (1997, 2001, 2004, 2005)
- Naismith College Coach of the Year (2004)
- Associated Press Coach of the Year (2004)
- 2004 Adolph Rupp Cup
- 2004 Chevrolet Coach of the Year
- 2004 Henry Iba Award (USBWA)
- 2004 NABC Co-Coach of the Year
- Head coach, Saint Joseph's University (1995β2019)
- Head coach, 2005 USA Basketball Under 21 World Championship Team
- NCAA berths: 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2016
Notesβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Phil Martelli Biography - Saint Joseph's University - Official Athletic Site". www.sjuhawks.com. Archived from the original on 2014-10-05.
- ^ "Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes".
- ^ "ESPN.com - Martelli joins St. Joe's Nelson as Naismith winner".
- ^ "Phil Martelli: DON'T CALL ME COACH -- A Lesson Plan for Life". Archived from the original on 2016-02-16.
- ^ "Saint Joseph's coach agrees to 4-year extension". 16 October 2008.
- ^ "O'Brien/UAB/Saint Joseph's saga comes to an end finally".
- ^ http://www.sjuhawks.com/fls/31200/pdf/mbasketball/2013-14/MediaGuide/Section1Coaches.pdf?SPSID=750595&SPID=127360&DB_OEM_ID=31200
- ^ Mike Jensen (2018-03-19). "Phil Martelli fired by St. Joseph's after 24 years as head coach". philly.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ Staff, NBC10. "Phil Martelli to Be Assistant Coach at Michigan, Source Says". NBC 10 Philadelphia. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Jensen, Mike. "Michigan suits Phil Martelli fine. But it's not St. Joseph's; it's not home". www.inquirer.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ^ "Phil Martelli will be Michigan's head coach during Juwan Howard's suspension". mLive. 22 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ^ https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2023/09/15/michigan-basketball-coach-juwan-howard-heart-surgery/70867372007/
- ^ "Four generations of Title IX: Judy Marra Martelli". 23 June 2012.
- ^ "Immaculata teams will join Basketball Hall".
- ^ "Bryant University Names Phil Martelli, Jr. Head Coach of Men's Basketball Program | Bryant News". news.bryant.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
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