Paul Corsaro
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Indianapolis |
Football | |
2008 | Youngstown State |
2009–2012 | Indianapolis |
Position(s) | Indianapolis (assistant) |
2016–2018 | Indianapolis (AHC) |
2018–2020 | Purdue Fort Wayne (assistant) |
2020–2024 | Indianapolis |
2024–present | IUI |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 79–37 (.681) |
Tournaments | 1–2 (NCAA Division II) |
Paul Corsaro (born 1988 or 1989)[1] is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the IUI Jaguars. He played college football for the Youngstown State Penguins before transferring to play football and basketball for the Indianapolis Greyhounds. He later coached the Greyhounds and for the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons before receiving his current position in 2024.
Early life
Corsaro attended Roncalli High School in Indiana where he was a top basketball and football athlete, being named a first-team All-South basketball player as a senior while finishing as the basketball team's all-time leading scorer.[2][3] He began his college career at Youngstown State University playing football in 2008, starting one game at quarterback that year.[4]
Corsaro transferred to the
Coaching career
Corsaro became a graduate assistant with the Indianapolis basketball program in 2012 and remained an assistant through 2016, when he was promoted to associate head coach.[1] He helped Indianapolis have six consecutive winning seasons in his tenure.[8] They also reached the NCAA tournament four straight times from 2013 to 2016 and had their first appearance in the Sweet Sixteen in 2014–15.[9] He then served as an assistant coach for the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons from 2018 to 2020, as the team had 32 wins in two seasons.[9]
Corsaro returned to Indianapolis in 2020 as head coach.[10] He served four seasons in the position and helped the team compile a record of 79–37 during that time, which included two conference championships.[11] He was the NABC Midwest Coach of the Year and the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Coach of the Year for the 2022–23 season, in which he led the team to a program-record 26 wins and helped them have a top seed in the NCAA tournament.[8]
In 2024, Corsaro left UIndy to become the head coach of the nearby Division I IUPUI Jaguars, which will represent the new Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis or IUI) when IUPUI splits into two separate institutions at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[12]
Head coaching record
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Indianapolis Greyhounds (Great Lakes Valley Conference ) (2020–2024)
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2020–21 | UIndy | 11–12 | 10–11 | 8th | |||||
2021–22 | UIndy | 19–11 | 10–8 | 6th | |||||
2022–23 | UIndy | 26–5 | 17–3 | 1st | NCAA Division II Midwest Region Quarterfinal | ||||
2023–24 | UIndy | 23–9 | 17–3 | 1st | DII Midwest Region Semifinal | ||||
UIndy: | 79–37 (.681) | 54–25 (.684) | |||||||
IUI Jaguars (Horizon League) (2024–Present) | |||||||||
IUI: | 0–0 (–) | 0–0 (–) | |||||||
Total: | 79–37 (.681) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
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- ^ Horner, Scott (March 25, 2024). "IUPUI (soon IUI) hires Paul Corsaro as men's basketball coach from UIndy". The Indianapolis Star.
- ^ a b "Paul Corsaro - Football". Indianapolis Greyhounds.
- ^ Fox 59.
- ^ "Paul Corsaro - Men's Basketball". Indianapolis Greyhounds.
- ^ "Paul Corsaro". Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.
- ^ a b Holdaway, Ed (March 25, 2024). "IU INDIANAPOLIS NAMES PAUL CORSARO HEAD MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH". IUPUI Jaguars.
- ^ a b "PFW assistant Corsaro leaves Dons for head coaching job at UIndy". WANE-TV. April 23, 2020.
- Fox 59.
- ^ Wainscott, Cody (March 25, 2024). "Corsaro Steps Down to Lead Crosstown IU Indianapolis". Indianapolis Greyhounds.
- ^ King, Mason (March 25, 2024). "Jaguars pounce on UIndy's Corsaro to coach IU Indianapolis hoops". Indianapolis Business Journal.