The Great Phil Martelli

Legendary Saint Joseph's University basketball coach Phil Martelli has accepted a multi-year contract extension with the university and will likely finish his coaching career as the winningest coach in school history.

Serving as the SJU assistant coach from 1986 to 1995, Martelli has been the university's head coach for the last 20 seasons. The last 20 years for Martelli and the SJU Hawks have been successful to say the least. With 6 postseason NCAA tournament wins, 11 NIT wins, and two Atlantic 10 regular season titles, Martelli will look to continue the successful tradition of SJU basketball as he will look to improve off of last season's rebuilding year.

While his Hawks are rather young and inexperienced, Martelli along with first team all-conference forward DeAndre Bembry, will look to lead the Hawks back to postseason play.