Pete Carril

Not to be confused with Pete Carroll.

Pete Carril
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Assistant coach
Team	Sacramento Kings
Biographical details
Born	July 10, 1930 (1930-07-10)
Alma mater	Lafayette College
Playing career
c1948–1952	Lafayette College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1967–1967 1967–1996 1996-2006 2007 since 2009	Easton (H.S.) Reading (H.S.) Lehigh University Princeton University Sacramento Kings (Asst.) Washington Wizards (Asst.) Sacramento Kings(Asst.)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Ivy League Regular Season Championship (1968, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996) 1975 National Invitation Tournament
Records
Ivy League seasons, championships, and wins.
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1997

Peter J. "Pete" Carril (born July 10, 1930 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States) is a former collegiate head coach and former NBA assistant with the Sacramento Kings.

Early years

Son of Spanish immigrants in the USA, Carril is a graduate of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he was an all-state selection for Pennsylvania in the 1947-48 season. He played collegiate basketball at Lafayette College under Butch Van Breda Kolff. Following graduation from college he was a teacher and coached high school basketball for 12 seasons at Easton (PA) High School and Reading (PA) High School, where Gary Walters, the current Princeton Athletic Director, and former Princeton point guard, played basketball under him in high school.

College coaching career

After a year at Lehigh University, Carril moved to Princeton University. In 29 years, he compiled a 514-261 (.658 winning percentage) record, the best of any coach in Ivy League basketball history. He is also the only coach to win 500 games without the benefit of athletic scholarships for his players.[2] He won 13 Ivy League championships and received 11 NCAA berths and 2 NIT bids. The Tigers won the NIT championship in 1975. Carril was noted for a tenacious defense, as his teams were first in the nation in scoring defense for fourteen of his final 21 seasons, including eight in a row, from 1988-1996. In part due to this, his Tigers were known as a very dangerous early-round NCAA opponent.

His final collegiate victory was an upset of defending national champions UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament in 1996 by a score of 43-41, in what is considered one of the greatest upsets of all time. In 1989, they took second-ranked Georgetown down to the wire before losing 50-49. Had the Tigers won, they would have been the first #16 seed to defeat a #1 seed since the NCAA began seeding the tournament field in 1979.

The most lasting element of his college coaching legacy is likely to be the increasingly popular "Princeton offense", a slow, low-scoring method consisting of passes, movement without the ball and back-door cuts which he developed. John Thompson III, a former assistant to Carril, has successfully adopted the "Princeton offense" at Georgetown and coached the Hoyas to the 2007 Final Four.

Coaching in the NBA

Carril was an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association for 10 years until his retirement in 2006. When Rick Adelman became Sacramento's head coach before the 1998-1999 season, Carril helped Adelman install the Princeton offense and oversaw the Kings' development into one of the NBA's best, most talented, and most potent offensive teams. With the help of such stars as Vlade Divac, Chris Webber, Peja Stojakovic, Doug Christie, and Mike Bibby, (2001–2006), Carril showed that the Princeton offense could function in the NBA. In 2007 he volunteered as a coach to the Washington Wizards. He has since rejoined the Kings as an assistant for the 2009 season.

Legacy

His career collegiate coaching record, including one season at Lehigh, was 525-273. He was enshrined in both the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997, following his retirement from Princeton.

Personal life

Carril is married to Dolores L. ("Dilly") Halteman. They have a daughter, Lisa, and a son, Peter.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Lehigh Engineers (Independent) (1966–1967)
1966-1967	Lehigh	11-12
Princeton Tigers (Ivy League) (1967–1996)
1967-1968	Princeton	20-6	12-2	T-1st
1968-1969	Princeton	19-7	14-0	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1969-1970	Princeton	16-9	9-5	3rd
1970-1971	Princeton	14-11	9-5	T-3rd
1971-1972	Princeton	20-7	12-2	2nd	NIT Quarterfinals
1972-1973	Princeton	16-9	11-3	2nd
1973-1974	Princeton	16-10	11-3	T-2nd
1974-1975	Princeton	22-8	12-2	2nd	NIT Championship
1975-1976	Princeton	22-5	14-0	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1976-1977	Princeton	21-5	13-1	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1977-1978	Princeton	17-9	11-3	T-2nd
1978-1979	Princeton	14-12	7-7	3rd
1979-1980	Princeton	15-15	11-3	T-1st	Lost in Ivy League Playoff
1980-1981	Princeton	18-10	13-1	T-1st	NCAA 1st Round
1981-1982	Princeton	13-13	9-5	T-2nd
1982-1983	Princeton	20-9	12-2	1st	NCAA 2nd Round
1983-1984	Princeton	18-10	10-4	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1984-1985	Princeton	11-15	7-7	T-4th
1985-1986	Princeton	13-13	7-7	T-4th
1986-1987	Princeton	16-9	9-5	T-2nd
1987-1988	Princeton	17-9	9-5	3rd
1988-1989	Princeton	19-8	11-3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1989-1990	Princeton	20-7	11-3	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1990-1991	Princeton	24-3	14-0	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1991-1992	Princeton	22-6	12-2	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1992-1993	Princeton	15-11	7-7	4th
1993-1994	Princeton	18-8	11-3	2nd
1994-1995	Princeton	16-10	10-4	T-2nd
1995-1996	Princeton	22-7	12-2	T-1st	NCAA 2nd Round
Princeton:		514-261	310-96
Total:		525-273
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season & conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

See also

• Princeton University
• Bill Bradley
• Geoff Petrie
• Gary Walters
• 1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
• 1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

External links

• Pete Carril at Basketball Hall of Fame profile.
• Article written by Jerry Price from Princeton Athletics Communications, 2007
• Coaching Profile on the official NBA website
• Professor Pete Carril, 1991 Video Interview on YouTube. By Dan Rydell and Casey McCall of Backdoor Productions.

Publications

• The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril, Pete Carril and Dan White, New York: Simon & Schuster (1997), ISBN 9780684835105.
• Play to Win: A Profile of Princeton Basketball Coach Pete Carril, Dan White, Prentice-Hall (1978), ISBN 9780136839040.