About John Giannini
John Manfredo Giannini is an American college basketball coach, Director of Athletics at Rowan University, and college basketball analyst for NBC Sports and other networks. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Rowan University from 1989 to 1996, the University of Maine from 1996 to 2004, and La Salle University from 2004 to 2018. Giannini led Rowan to an NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament championship in 1996 and led La Salle to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 2013. Giannini amassed more than 500 victories in his collegiate coaching career. Giannini totaled a 168–38 record in seven seasons at Rowan, which included five NCAA Tournament appearances and three Final Four berths. Giannini's first head coaching job came at Rowan University, a Division III school, when he was hired as the men's coach in 1989. Giannini's two 20-win seasons are the only two on record in program history, and his.530 winning percentage is the highest in school history. The 2011–12 Explorers won 21 games, the program's highest win total since 1992, and received an invitation to the 2012 NIT, the program's first postseason tournament appearance since 1992.
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