FRAN FRASCHILLA
Fran Fraschilla makes his Olympic debut with NBC Sports Group as a men’s basketball analyst during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Fraschilla currently serves as an analyst for ESPN’s Big 12 men’s basketball games and is a regular contributor to ESPN and ESPNU studio shows. Fraschilla previously worked an analyst on ESPN’s NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship coverage from 2007-14.
Before joining ESPN, Fraschilla coached at the collegiate level for 23 years, posting an overall record of 175-100. From 1999-2002, Fraschilla was the head coach at the University of New Mexico, where he guided the Lobos to the Mountain West Conference championship game and the third round of the NIT in 2001. He received the NABC Literacy Pioneer Award for his work with the “Dream to Read” program in 2000.
Fraschilla was the head coach at St. John’s University from 1996-1998. In 1998, he led the Red Storm to the NCAA Championship for the first time in five years. He was the head coach from 1992-96 at Manhattan College, where his teams reached the postseason all four years, with two NCAA and two NIT appearances. In 1995, the team won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship and Fraschilla was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, National Association Basketball Coaches District II Coach of the Year, Eastern Basketball Coach of the Year and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Coach of the Year.
Before becoming a head coach, Fraschilla worked as an assistant basketball coach for five teams, including Providence College, Ohio State University, Ohio University, University of Rhode Island, and New York Tech.
Active in several charity organizations, Fraschilla has participated in the NABC/American Cancer Society’s “Coaches vs. Cancer 3-Point Attack,” NY State Special Olympics, The O’Hara Foundation, St. John’s Bread and Life and White Plains Parks and Recreation. He was chairman of the NABC Committee on Academics from 1994-2002. Fraschilla served as an Honorary Chairman for the 2000 New Mexico Special Olympics Summer Games, as well as the Honorary Chairman for the UNM Library Development program.
Fraschilla received a bachelor’s degree in American history from Brooklyn College in 1980.
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