Stephen Christopher Pikiell (born November 21, 1967) is an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at Rutgers. He is a former coach at Stony Brook.
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In the early years and playing career
Born and raised in Bristol, Connecticut, Pikiell is one of nine children and graduated from St. Catholic High School Paul at Bristol in 1986. At the University of Connecticut, Pikiell was a point guard, a two-year captain and a four-year letter to Huskies from 1987 to 1991. He played in 106 career games and averaged 8.2 points as a new player. While Pikiell is team captain, Connecticut won the first Big East title and advanced to Elite Eight and Sweet Sixteen. In 1991, Pikiell was awarded the UConn Club Senior Athlete Award for outstanding contributions to UConn athletics.
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After graduation, Pikiell remained as UConn's staff assistant before moving to Yale University, as an assistant coach from 1992-95. During 1995-96, Pikiell served as a temporary head coach at Wesleyan University. Then, former coach and colleague Howie Dickenman became head coach at Central Connecticut State and hired Pikiell as an assistant coach, where he lived from 1997-2001, with Blue Devils reaching the NCAA Tournament in 2000. Pikiell joined fellow alum alum UConn Hobbs as assistant at George Washington from 2001-05, where he became part of the 2004 Colonial NIT and NCAA 2005 Tournament team.
Stony Brook
On April 13, 2005, Pikiell replaced Nick Macarchuk as the 10th head coach in program history. At that time, Pikiell became the first Connecticut alum to play for Calhoun to train the Division I program.
Taking over a program transferred to Division I in 1999, Stony Brook suffered three successive defeats in his first three years. In the 2008-09 season, Seawolves went 16-14 for his first winning season in Division I. The following year in 2009-10, Stony Brook earned their first regular championship with a 22-10, 13-3 record, ending with a semifinal loss in the tournament. Based on a regular season win, Stony Brook got a NIT offer but lost to Illinois. Pikiell guided Seawolves to a 15-7 record in 2010-11, making a run to the American East Championship game after upsetting top-seeded Vermont in the semi-final but losing to Boston.
From 2011 to 2016, Stony Brook won three regular season titles in East America, winning a conference tournament for the first time in school history in 2016 on the way to the first NCAA Tournament Seawolves appearance. In that span, Stony Brook went 117-47, while performing on two NIT and two CBI tournaments in addition to the NCAA Tournament performance. His overall record at Stony Brook was 192-155 in 11 seasons.
Rutgers
On March 19, 2016, Pikiell was announced as the next coach at Rutgers.
Head coaching record
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