Paul Corsaro

Paul Corsaro is the Head Men's Basketball Coach at IU Indianapolis.

Corsaro, an Indianapolis-native, spent the last four seasons as head coach at nearby University of Indianapolis. The past three years, UIndy has gone 68-25 with back-to-back NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and consecutive Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) regular season titles.

Corsaro becomes the 11th head coach in the history of the program.

Indianapolis native and UIndy alumnus Paul Corsaro was named the 13th men’s basketball head coach in UIndy program history in April of 2020. Corsaro earned his first head coaching position after serving as an assistant coach for the Greyhounds for six seasons before serving in the same capacity for two years at DI Purdue Fort Wayne.

Corsaro guided the Hounds to a historic season in 2021-22, making the first GLVC tournament title game in program history. The 19 wins marked the most wins by a UIndy coach in their second season during the Division II era and the second most by a UIndy head coach in their second season. On Nov. 23, 2021 the Hounds downed Ohio Valley 90-41, marking the largest margin of victory in Corsaro's career at 49 points. The Hounds had the second best defense and fifth best offense in the league, leading to two GLVC All-Conference selections and a pair of All-Defensive team laurels. UIndy also had a successful season in the classroom, marking the fourth straight semester with a team cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0.

Overcoming some of the unique challenges of the pandemic in his very first season at the helm, Corsaro and his Greyhounds found their groove midway through the 2020-21 season, racking up 11 wins in their final 16 games. The stretch started in January with a 62-61 comeback win versus in-state rival Southern Indiana and its head coach Stan Gouard, Corsaro's former mentor at UIndy, and ended in a thriller 75-73 victory against Truman, the No. 2-ranked team in the nation, in the GLVC Tournament quarterfinals. Three Hounds went on to earn postseason honors with the trio being named GLVC All-Conference honorees.

A product of local Roncalli High School, Corsaro’s time as an assistant on the UIndy bench coincided with some of the most successful seasons in school history. He helped the Hounds to four 20-win seasons, including four consecutive NCAA tournament berths from 2013-16. He mentored a total of 13 All-GLVC honorees in his six years, as well as eight GLVC All-Defensive Team members, one GLVC Freshman of the Year and a pair of All-Midwest Region performers in Joe Lawson (2015) and Jordan Loyd (2016).

Additionally, Corsaro helped guide the Hounds to a combined 49 wins in 2013-14 and 2014-15, with the latter’s 25 victories good for the most by a Greyhound squad in 50 years. With help from a season-opening 17-game winning streak, the ‘14-15 club spent nine weeks ranked in the top 10, including a two-week stay at No. 1, before earning the program’s first-ever “Sweet Sixteen” berth.

Corsaro moved on to Purdue Fort Wayne in 2018 as an assistant under head coach Jon Coffman. The Mastodons amassed 32 wins in Corsaro’s two seasons, including a third-place finish in The Summit League in 2018-19.

As a two-sport student-athlete at UIndy, Corsaro earned three varstiy letters as a member of the Greyhound football team and three more on the hardwood under Head Coach Stan Gouard – often given the toughest defensive assignment for the opposing team. He was a part of Gouard’s first NCAA Tournament team in 2011 and a member of the Hounds’ first DII football playoff team in 2012. He still holds the modern program record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with eight in 2010.

Corsaro graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Communication in 2012 and a master’s in Business Administration in 2014 – both from UIndy. He is also the all-time leading scorer at Roncalli High School with 1,156 career points.