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Scott Adubato enters his first season with the <strong>Manhattan</strong> men’s<br />

basketball program. Adubato brings a plethora of experience to<br />

Riverdale, which includes coaching stints at both the collegiate<br />

and professional ranks.<br />

Adubato most recently served from 2007-2010 as an assistant<br />

coach at Seton Hall University. For the first time in the last 15<br />

years, Adubato helped the Pirates post winning records in three<br />

consecutive seasons. In his final year in South Orange, the<br />

Pirates finished with their best overall record (18-12) in over five<br />

years and recorded their most wins in the BIG EAST since the<br />

2005-06 campaign, which earned Seton Hall an at-large bid to the<br />

2010 National Invitation Tournament.<br />

Prior to Seton Hall, Adubato spent seven years with the<br />

Memphis Grizzlies organization of the National Basketball<br />

Association. He served as an assistant on head coach Mike<br />

Fratello’s staff during his final two years (2005-2007) in Memphis,<br />

after working the previous five seasons as a scout.<br />

Adubato’s collegiate and professional coaching experience<br />

also includes stints as an assistant coach in the United States<br />

Basketball League (1999-2000), the International Basketball<br />

League (1999), Georgia State University (1997-99), East Carolina<br />

ADUBATO<br />

(1995-96), Collin County Community <strong>College</strong> (1993-95), the<br />

University of Nevada-Las Vegas (1993-94) and Old Dominion<br />

University (1990-91). In 1992, he worked as an assistant coach<br />

with the Continental Basketball Association’s Southern Division<br />

Champion Oklahoma City Calvary and served as the head coach<br />

of the Tampa Bay Sunblasters of the USBL from 1990-91.<br />

Adubato was an advance scout for the Dallas Mavericks,<br />

Orlando Magic and New York Liberty, working with his father, head<br />

coach Richie Adubato. He also was a college scout for the Los<br />

Angles Clippers.<br />

His professional playing career started in 1987 when he was<br />

selected in the 7th Round of the NBA Draft by the Sacramento<br />

Kings. Adubato later played and coached professionally in Italy.<br />

Adubato began his collegiate career on a full-scholarship at the<br />

C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, w<strong>here</strong> he played his<br />

freshman season before transferring to Upsala <strong>College</strong> in East<br />

Orange, N.J. At Upsala, Adubato was a three-year starter and All-<br />

America Honorable Mention, while earning a bachelor’s degree in<br />

business management.<br />

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