Ed Schilling

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Ed Schilling
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Pepperdine Waves
Position Head coach
League West Coast Conference
Personal information
Born (1966-01-04) January 4, 1966 (age 58)
NationalityAmerican
Career information
High school Lebanon Senior
(Lebanon, Indiana)
College Miami (Ohio) (1984–1988)
NBA draft 1988: undrafted
Position Point guard
Coaching career1989–present
Career history
As coach:
1995–1996 UMass (assistant)
1996–1997 New Jersey Nets (assistant)
1997–2003 Wright State
2003–2005 Memphis (assistant)
2013–2017 UCLA (assistant)
2017–2019 Indiana (assistant)
2020–2024 Grand Canyon (assistant)
2024–present Pepperdine

Edmund C. Schilling Jr. (born January 4, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the current Head Basketball Coach at Pepperdine University. Previously he served as the head coach of the Wright State Raiders.

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College career

Schilling was a starting point guard at Miami (Ohio) for four years from 1984 to 1988. He holds the program's career assists record with 629. [1] His teams made appearances in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament twice.

Coaching career

High school

At age 22, Schilling began his coaching career in the high school ranks and has held three head coaching positions in high school. He was the head coach at Western Boone Junior-Senior High School from 1988 to 1991. [2] The team had won one game the season before his arrival, and he posted records of 5–16, 11-10 and 15–7 in his three seasons. He moved to Logansport High School for 1991–95. [3]

He coached the United States for the McDonald's All-American Game in 1991 and was its youngest ever head coach.

Following stints in the NBA and as a college assistant and head coach, Schilling returned to high school coaching for 2009–13 at Park Tudor School. [4]

College Assistant

Schilling has spent 10 seasons on the bench of Division 1 programs including UMass, Wright State, Memphis, UCLA, Indiana and Grand Canyon. Schilling worked under John Calipari at UMass.

New Jersey Nets

Schilling was the first assistant coach hire on the staff of new New Jersey Nets head coach John Calipari for the 1996–97 season. At 30 years old, he was the youngest coach in the NBA and one of the youngest people in the Nets' locker room. [5]

Wright State

Schilling was hired to lead the Wright State program on March 19, 1997, taking over for Ralph Underhill. [6] He was the head coach for six seasons and went 75–93 in his six seasons. He was dismissed in 2003 with three years remaining on his contract. [7]

Grand Canyon

Newly hired Grand Canyon head coach Bryce Drew added Schilling to his staff on April 1, 2020. [8] In the staff's first season, the program won its first conference title at the Division 1 level and qualified for its first NCAA Tournament. [9]

Personal life

Schilling's father, Ed Sr., played college basketball at Butler and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2002. Schilling's wife, April, was a former assistant coach for the Indiana Fever.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview
SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Wright State Raiders (Midwestern Collegiate Conference)(1997–2001)
1997–98 Wright State 10-183-117th
1998–99 Wright State 9-184-107th
1999–2000 Wright State 11-176-8T-4th
2000–01 Wright State 18-118-64th
Wright State Raiders (Horizon League)(2001–2003)
2001–02 Wright State 17-118-6T-4th
2002–03 Wright State 10-184-12T-6th
Wright State:75–93 (.446)33–53 (.384)
Total:75–93 (.446)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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