Jared Grasso

Jared Grasso
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Bryant
Conference	NEC
Record	51–52 (.495)
Biographical details
Born	May 11, 1980 (age 41); 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)
2010–2018	Iona (Associate Head Coach)
2018–present	Bryant
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	5 NCAA Tournaments, 2 NIT’s as Iona’s Associate Head coach
Awards
	2019 finalist for Joe B. Hall, awarded to Nation’s best first year head college basketball coach. 2021 finalist for Hugh Durham Award, awarded to Nation’s best mid major head college basketball coach.

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]

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. As the Bulldogs were the only team in the nation 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

Head coaching record[]

College[]

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Bryant Bulldogs (Northeast Conference) (2018–present)
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	11–8	8–1
Bryant:		51–52 (.495)	32–27 (.542)
Total:		51–52 (.495)
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