Chicago (AP) – Depaul took over the assistant Jill Pizhoti on Thursday for a long time coach Dug Bruno, Who stepped out last week.
Pizzotti was hired by Depaul in 2011 and was served as an interim coach with Bruno due to this season health issuesBlue Damons finished in total of 13–19 and the Big East conference finished sixth at 8-10.
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“In this season, this season, I had the opportunity to see Jill in a new light as an interim head coach, and I was particularly influenced by their ability to teach, lead and agreed among young women,” Dwayne PV said in a statement, “Athletic director Dwayne PV said. “She really knows what it seems to compete at the championship level, and she has the recruitment capacity, player development expertise and motivational leadership to bring the best in Chicago and keep them here. Jill understands the program to understand the program that the program needs to go, and I have full confidence in their ability to expect my women’s basketball program.”
Depall has created the NCAA tournament 10 times and has upgraded to Sweet 16 twice since the arrival of Pizhoti. Blue Demons has won six Big East Regular-Sector Championships and five conference tournaments at that time. He was elevated to associate the head coach in 2014.
“Working to fulfill the vision of the great coach Doug Bruno is an honor,” he said. “We want to bring back the basketball of depall women back into national prominence and use energy and speed in our great game to reach new heights.”
A product of the Chicago-region, Pizhoti has a three-decades of coaching experience. She was the head coach at St. Louis University from 1995 to 2005 after working as an assistant in North Kentki and Indiana. From 2005 to 2010, she was the manager of Nike’s Women’s College Basketball, who was serving as a contact with the country’s top teams as well as the women’s basketball coaching association and the USA Basketball. She was an assistant in West Virginia for the 2010–11 season, when the climbers ended 24–10 and created the NCAA tournament.
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Pizzotti has large shoes to fill in Depaul.
Bruno played for Namith Hall of Fame Coach Re Main. She was initially hired in 1977 after 39 seasons and two stands in the women’s team 786 wins, 25 NCAA tournament berths and 19 conference titles. She was included in the women’s basketball hall of fame in 2022.
Bruno is living in school as a special assistant to the vice -president/director of athletics for women’s basketball.
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