Mike Netti
Michael Netti is an American basketball coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach at Illinois State University.
Netti was born and raised in Liverpool, New York. He played college basketball at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2000. After the 1999–00 season, he transferred to Syracuse and discontinued his basketball career.
Coaching career
Netti's first job as an assistant coach was at Gardner-Webb under head coach Rick Scruggs.
He was hired as an assistant coach at St. Francis Brooklyn in 2006 and stayed there through 2008.
In 2008, he was hired as the head coach at Lackawanna College. He spent two seasons there, winning 43 games in total.
Netti returned to GardnerWebb in 2010 and spent three seasons there. He served under thenhead coach Chris Holtmann, who was an assistant coach during Netti's first stint at GardnerWebb.
In 2013, he was hired by East Carolina to be an assistant coach in the staff of head coach Jeff Lebo.
After four seasons at East Carolina, Netti was hired as a special assistant at Ohio State, where he was reunited once again with Holtmann, who had become the head coach there. In this role, he helped create offensive game plans and worked with players off the court. When Ryan Pedon and Tony Skinn left Ohio State for other opportunities in 2022, Netti was promoted to assistant coach.
Illinois State
At the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, Netti was hired as an assistant coach at Illinois State University.
Personal life
Netti is married to his wife, Natalie. They have a son named Ryan.