Paul Corsaro Basketball
Head Coach Paul Corsaro
Indianapolis-native Paul Corsaro was named the 11th head coach in program history on Mar. 25, 2024. Corsaro spent the previous 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.
“I’m honored to be the head men’s basketball coach at IU Indianapolis,” Corsaro said. “I want to thank President Whitten, Chancellor Ramchand and our Athletic Director, Luke Bosso, for their belief in me and my vision for this program. My wife, Brooke, and my son, Greg, are equally excited to be Jaguars and cannot wait to hit the ground running and get integrated with the entire IU Indianapolis community.”
Corsaro began his coaching career as an assistant coach and associate head coach at UIndy (2012-18), helping the Greyhounds to a winning record for six straight winning seasons and four years of 20 wins or better. He later spent two years as assistant coach at Fort Wayne (2018-20), helping the Mastodons to an 18-15 mark his first season. After an 11-12 record in his first season at UIndy, he followed up with three straight impressive seasons, including a 26-5 mark in 2022-23.
“We are delighted to welcome Coach Paul Corsaro as the next coach of the Jaguars men’s basketball team,” IU Indianapolis Chancellor Latha Ramchand said. “He brings the perfect balance of team-building, coaching expertise, and high expectations for student success, all of which will help our student-athletes shine in competition and in the classroom.”
“At every turn during our search, Paul Corsaro’s name came up. He’s been wildly successful as a head coach at UIndy, he’s a tireless recruiter and proven developer of talent. He graduates his student-athletes, he wins the right way and his student-athletes have been strong ambassadors for their program,” Bosso said. “He has deep Indianapolis ties in the basketball community, in the corporate community and in the media, which is only going to help him be successful here. Today is a great day for our university, our athletic department and our men’s basketball program.”
Corsaro was the 2023 NABC Midwest Coach of the Year and GLVC Coach of the Year as his team set program records for wins in a season (26) and GLVC (17) victories. The program ranked as high as No. 4 in the NABC national polls and was the top seed in the Midwest Regional of the NCAA Tournament. This past season, the Greyhounds went 23-9 and once again earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
“To be a Division I head coach in Indianapolis – my hometown – I cannot think of anything better,” Corsaro said. “I’m excited about the future of our basketball program and athletic department, especially due to the new leadership of Chancellor Ramchand and direction of Luke, as well as the commitment shown by President Whitten.
“We will win. We will win quickly. We will win the right way – the ethical way. And we will make the city of Indianapolis proud of the Jaguar basketball program.”
Corsaro graduated from UIndy in 2012 with a degree in communications and completed his MBA from the school in 2014. He was a two-sport star at UIndy, competing in both basketball and football, playing in both the NCAA Tournament and NCAA DII football playoffs. He starred at nearby Roncalli High School where he finished as the program’s all-time leader in career points.
Camp Director Mike Burris
Mike Burris, Indiana native and former head coach at Olney Central College, is an Assistant Coach at IU Indianapolis. Coach Burris was recently hired at IU Indianapolis after a successful stint as an Assistant Coach at the University of Indianapolis.
As associate head coach at UIndy the past two seasons the Greyhounds went 49-14 including 34-6 in GLVC play. UIndy won back to back regular season GLVC championships while being the #1 seed in the NCAA Midwest Regional in 2022-2023 & 2023-2024.
Burris and the Hounds had a historic season in 2021-22, marking the first GLVC tournament title game appearance in program history. The Hounds went 19-11 with their largest margin of victory coming against Ohio Valley at 49 points. UIndy had the second best defense paired with the fifth best offense in the league, leading to a pair of GLVC All-Conference selections and All-Defensive team laurels. The Hounds excelled in the classroom as well, posting their fourth straight semester with a team cumulative grade points average of at least 3.0.
In Burris' first year with the Greyhounds, UIndy won 11 of their final 16 games to earn an improbable postseason berth, culminating in a come-from-behind win against the No. 2-ranked team in the GLVC quarterfinal. Three Hounds went on to earn postseason honors with the trio being named GLVC All-Conference honorees.
Burris is the winningest coach in OCC history, racking up 252 wins over 15 seasons from 2005-20. After taking over as the youngest head coach in the school’s history at age 26, Burris had 68 players sign with NCAA DI and DII programs, while graduating 97 percent of his student-athletes.
Burris guided OCC to its best-ever six-year stretch before coming to UIndy, amassing 118 wins in that span. The Blue Knights compiled a 25-6 record in 2018-19, defeated two top-five programs and finishing the season with a No. 14 national rankings. Per Massey Ratings, the Blue Knights also topped the NJCAA in offensive production.
With the team success came personal accolades, as Burris was voted the Great Rivers Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2012 and the NJCAA Region 24 Coach of the Year in 2013.
Prior to his success at OCC, Burris himself donned the Blue Knights jersey from 1997-99 before transferring to Division I Cal Poly University. He then returned to OCC as an assistant coach, and obtained his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Eastern Illinois University in 2004.
Burris grew up 75 miles from the city of Indianapolis in Owensburg, Ind., graduating from Eastern Greene in 1997.