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Jared Keith Grasso (born May 11, 1980) is an American college basketball coach, and head coach of the Bryant Bulldogs men's basketball team since 2018.[1]

Jared Grasso

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Bryant
Conference	America East
Record	64–55 (.538)
Biographical details
Born	(1980-05-11) May 11, 1980 (age 42) Syosset, New York
Playing career
1998–2002	Quinnipiac
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2002–2003	Hofstra (assistant)
2003–2005	Hartford (assistant)
2005–2006	Quinnipiac (assistant)
2006–2009	Fordham (assistant)
2009–2010	Fordham (interim HC)
2010–2011	Iona (assistant)
2011–2018	Iona (associate HC)
2018–present	Bryant
Head coaching record
Overall	65–77 (.458)
Tournaments	0–1 (NCAA Division I) 0–1 (CBI)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NEC Tournament (2022) NEC Regular Season (2022)
Awards
NEC Coach of the Year (2022)

Playing career

Grasso played four years at Quinnipiac, where he ranks fifth all-time in assists, and fourth all-time in three-point field goals.[2][3] He graduated in 2002 as Quinnipiac's second 1,000-point scorer in its Division I era and was inducted into the university's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014. [4]

Coaching career

After graduation, Grasso joined the coaching staff at Hofstra, where he was a graduate assistant for the 2002–03 season before moving on to Hartford for a two-year assistant coaching stint. He returned to his alma mater Quinnipiac for a season as an assistant coach before becoming an assistant coach under Dereck Whittenburg at Fordham.[5][6]

When Whittenburg was fired on December 3, 2009, Grasso took over head coaching duties on an interim basis for the Rams for the remainder of the season. At 29 years old Grasso was then the youngest Division 1 coach in the country. [5][7]

Grasso was not retained by Fordham on a full-time basis, and joined Tim Cluess's staff at Iona as an assistant coach. While with the Gaels, the team has appeared in five NCAA tournaments, and has won five MAAC conference tournament titles, along with three MAAC regular season titles.[2]

On April 2, 2018, Grasso was named the 8th head coach in Bryant men's basketball history, and the second in the Division I era, replacing Tim O'Shea.[1]

Grasso led the Bulldogs to one of the nation’s biggest turnarounds. The Bulldogs were the only team in the nation to triple its win total. Grasso was recognized as a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award as the nation’s top first year head coach.

In the 2020–21 season Grasso was named the USBWA District 1 Coach of the Year, while leading Bryant to its best record in the program’s D1 history.

In the 2021-2022 season Grasso was named NEC Coach of the Year, while leading Bryant to it’s beat season in program history winning 22 games and winning the regular season and conference tournament titles.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Fordham Rams (Atlantic 10 Conference) (2009–2010)
2009–10	Fordham*	1–22	0–16	14th
Fordham:		1–22 (.043)	0–16 (.000)
Bryant Bulldogs (Northeast Conference) (2018–2022)
2018–19	Bryant	10–20	7–11	8th
2019–20	Bryant	15–17	7–11	T–7th
2020–21	Bryant	15–7	10–4	2nd	CBI Quarterfinals
2021–22	Bryant	22–10	16–2	1st	NCAA Division I First Four
Bryant Bulldogs (America East Conference) (2022–present)
2022–23	Bryant	2–1	0–0
Bryant:		64–55 (.538)	40–28 (.588)
Total:		65–77 (.458)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

*Denotes interim head coach

References

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