Merrimack Basketball Coach: Joe Gallo

Year 2 of coaching interviews kicks off with Merrimack head coach Joe Gallo. Coach Gallo has had an interesting tenure at Merrimack now in his 8th year. He's in his first year coaching the team at the D1 level, but just his first year where the team can qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Despite that he's led Merrimack to 2 regular season NEC Conference titles along with 1 conference tournament championship last year when the loser, Fairleigh Dickinson, won 2 games in the NCAA tournament as a 16 seed. His fascinating zone defense has Merrimack a top 65 rated defense in the country according to Kenpom, and behind that, they just might have the potential to be a Cinderella!