INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

IUP head men’s basketball coach Joe Lombardi has announced the hiring of Brian Urso as an assistant coach. Urso joins the Crimson Hawks after spending the last two years at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Urso helped establish the first men’s basketball team in Chatham’s history, as the once all-female institution launched six men’s programs in 2015. A Division III program in the President’s Athletic Conference (PAC), the Cougars featured 15 freshmen last year on a team that defeated Geneva in the opening round of the PAC Tournament. Urso graduated from Point Park in 2009 with a bachelors degree in elementary education. He is originally from Pittsburgh and went to Fox Chapel High School. He currently lives in Baden, Pa. with his wife, Karlie, and daughter Regina. Read More.