Nick DiPillo - Women's Basketball Coach - Bowling Green State University Athletics

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Nick DiPillo

Title:
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach

NIck DiPillo completed his first season with the BGSU women's basketball program in 2023-24. DiPillo, who has over two decades of coaching experience, joined the Falcons in May of 2023.

(NOTE: On May 23, 2024, DiPillo was named head women's basketball coach at Le Moyne College)

In the new staff's first season at BGSU, Chmiel, DiPillo and Company guided the Falcons to a winning record and a postseason tournament berth despite a veritable plethora of injuries.

After seeing the departure of four starters from the previous year's team, the Falcons were picked to finish fourth in the Mid-American Conference in 2023-24. Despite losing an estimated 126 player-games to injury, BGSU finished in a tie for fourth in the final league standings and advanced to the WNIT.

Four Falcons earned conference honors, including a pair of newcomers that joined the program shortly after the new staff arrived at BGSU. Morgan Sharps and Amy Velasco each were named to the All-MAC Second Team, while first-year Falcon Erika Porter earned All-MAC Third-Team honors and Paige Kohler was chosen to the MAC's All-Freshman Team.

Porter shattered the BGSU single-season records for field-goal percentage, both overall and in MAC games. She set a new MAC record by shooting 66.3% from the floor on the season. In league games only, her 68.2% success rate placed her second in MAC history.

Porter also finished second in the nation in field-goal percentage in '23-24.

Sharps broke the school career record for three-point field goals made per game (2.56), and hit 3.11 triples per contest in 2023-24, the second-highest single-season average in BGSU history. Despite missing the first four games of the season due to injury, Sharps led all MAC players in total three-pointers made on the season.

Kohler led all MAC freshmen in numerous categories in league games, including scoring, assists, assist/turnover ratio, minutes played and field-goal percentage.

Velasco led all MAC players in assists per game in conference contests, and surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career in the final game of the regular season. She was named to the 2023-24 Academic All-America Third Team, selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC), becoming the Falcons' first Academic All-American in 20 years.

DiPillo joined Chmiel’s staff after spending the 2022-23 season as an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh. He has coached at the professional and collegiate levels for the past two decades.

Prior to joining the Pitt staff, DiPillo was head coach at the University of Scranton, where he led the Lady Royals to an overall record of 58-8 (.879) and a Landmark Conference record of 32-3 (.914). DiPillo guided Scranton to three consecutive conference championships while earning two bids to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The Lady Royals advanced to the Sweet 16 in his final season with the program.

Scranton’s Sweet 16 berth capped a 27-3 season in which the Lady Royals were a perfect 14-0 mark in Landmark Conference action. The team held opponents to just 52.3 points per contest in that 2021-22 season, and a pair of players earned WBCA All-America honors.

In his first season at the helm of the Lady Royals, DiPillo guided Scranton to a 24-4 record overall, and a 12-2 league mark. His second season saw the Lady Royals go 6-1 in the conference and 7-1 overall in a 2020-21 campaign that was shortened due to COVID-19.

Prior to Scranton, DiPillo served on the women’s basketball coaching staff at Seton Hall for five years (2014-19). He began his time with the Pirates serving as the program’s director of player development before becoming an assistant coach for his final two seasons.

At Seton Hall, DiPillo played an integral role in a successful run for the Pirates as they went 94-66 across his five seasons, recording two seasons of at least 23 victories while competing in the challenging Big East Conference.

In his first season with the Pirates in 2015, DiPillo helped the squad finish 28-6 as they captured their first Big East Conference championship in program history and earned their first bid to the NCAA Tournament since 1995. The Pirates went 23-9 in 2016 and made a return trip to the NCAAs.

Over his final two seasons as an assistant coach, DiPillo helped Seton Hall earn back-to-back postseason bids to the WNIT. On the recruiting trail, DiPillo helped the Pirates sign a class ranked in the top-30 nationally in his tenure, while also signing and coaching eight All-Big East Conference selections and a pair of WBCA All-Americans.

Prior to his appointment at Seton Hall, DiPillo served as a skills trainer/camp director at the Monroe Sports Center in Monroe, N.J., for four years (2010-14).

DiPillo also has professional coaching experience, as he was an assistant coach for the New York Liberty from 2005-09. He worked with the post players and helped the team make four WNBA playoff appearances including a trip to the WNBA Eastern Conference Finals in 2008. DiPillo coached a trio of WNBA All-Stars and three Olympians while with the Liberty, including 2007 WNBA Most Improved Player Janel McCarville.

DiPillo began his coaching career in 2003 at Division III Kean University. In two seasons, he helped the Cougars achieve a 34-19 overall record while earning the 2005 ECAC Metro Championship.

DiPillo was a member of the men’s basketball team at Fairleigh Dickinson, graduating in 2003 with a degree in Sociology. DiPillo and his wife Kelsey have a son, Frankie, who was born in May of 2022. He also has a 16-year-old daughter, Maddy.