Fran Fraschilla is an analyst for Westwood One’s coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Fraschilla is also an accomplished television analyst, having joined ESPN as a college basketball game and studio analyst in 2003. He serves as an analyst primarily on Big 12 and BIG EAST Conference men’s basketball games. In addition to men’s college basketball, Fraschilla has been an analyst on ESPN’s NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship coverage since 2007 and is a regular on ESPN and ESPNU studio shows.
At ESPN he worked the NBA Draft from 2004-10, the FIBA World Championships in 2006 and 2010 and has also covered the NBA and high school basketball.
Fraschilla coached at the collegiate level for 23 years, posting an overall record of 175-100 as a head coach. When he joined ESPN, he ranked as the 34th winningest active coach in men’s college basketball. His teams made eight postseason appearances in nine years, including three NCAA Tournaments (1993, 1995 and 1998).
From 1999-2002, Fraschilla was the head coach at the University of New Mexico, where he guided the Lobos to the Mountain West Conference championship game and the third round of the NIT in 2001. He received the NABC Literacy Pioneer Award for his work with the “Dream to Read” program in 2000.
Fraschilla was the head coach at St. John’s University from 1996-1998. In 1998, he led the Red Storm to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five years. Prior to his stint in Queens, Fraschilla was the head coach from 1992-96 at Manhattan College, where his teams reached the postseason all four years, with two NCAA and two NIT appearances. In 1995, the team won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship and Fraschilla was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, National Association Basketball Coaches District II Coach of the Year, Eastern Basketball Coach of the Year and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Coach of the Year.
Before becoming a head coach, Fraschilla worked as an assistant basketball coach for five teams, including Providence College, Ohio State University, Ohio University, University of Rhode Island, and New York Tech.
Active in several charity organizations, Fraschilla has participated in the NABC/American Cancer Society’s “Coaches vs. Cancer 3-Point Attack,” NY State Special Olympics, The O’Hara Foundation, St. John’s Bread and Life and White Plains Parks and Recreation. He was chairman of the NABC Committee on Academics from 1994-2002. Fraschilla served as an Honorary Chairman for the 2000 New Mexico Special Olympics Summer Games, as well as the Honorary Chairman for the UNM Library Development program.
Fraschilla received a bachelor’s degree in American history from Brooklyn College in 1980.
Fran Fraschilla's Posts
Kansas’ Elijah Johnson and Bill Self on playing North Carolina
ST. LOUIS, MO – No Cinderella’s here. On Sunday in St. Louis it’ll be North Carolina and Kansas, two of the three winningest programs in college basketball history, playing for the last spot in the Final Four.… Read More »
Midwest Regional Semifinal: (2) Kansas 60 – (11) North Carolina State 57
ST. LOUIS, MO – In the midst of a potentially crushing meltdown, the Kansas Jayhawks summoned just enough composure to punch their ticket for the Elite Eight. Up by 9 with under six minutes remaining, the Jayhawks allowed North Carolina State to whittle the deficit all the way down to… Read More »
Midwest Regional Semifinal: (1) North Carolina 73 – (13) Ohio 65 (OT)
ST. LOUIS, MO – The clock finally struck midnight for this year’s tournament Cinderella, though the Ohio Bobcats nearly made time stand still. The Mid-American Conference tournament champions pushed the mighty North Carolina Tar Heels to the brink, before succumbing in overtime to the Midwest Region’s top seed by a… Read More »
NC State’s Mark Gottfried: Full Interview on Facing Kansas
ST. LOUIS, MO – Mark Gottfried’s 11th-seeded North Carolina State Wolfpack meet second-seeded Kansas in their Sweet Sixteen Midwest Regional NCAA Tournament match-up. It’s the Wolfpack’s first trip to the Sweet Sixteen since 2005, and only their second since the tenure of legendary head coach Jim Valvano ended. Fran Fraschilla… Read More »
