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Matthew Driscoll
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
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- Phone:
- 919-515-3134
Matthew Driscoll joined the NC State men's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in April 2026.
Driscoll comes to the Pack after spending last season as an associate head coach at Kansas State. Prior to his one season with the Wildcats, Driscoll was head coach at North Florida for 16 seasons.
He left the Ospreys as the all-time winningest coach in program and Atlantic Sun conference history.
A head coach for 20 seasons counting a four-year stint at Division III La Roche College in the mid-1990s, Driscoll has 274 career victories, including a school-record 248 at North Florida. In addition to being the winningest coach in Ospreys' history, he has the most wins (144) of any head coach in Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) history, boasting a career .550 winning percentage in league play. He won 15 or more games 10 times at UNF, while he finished .500 or better in ASUN play on 12 occasions. He owns the program's only three 20-win seasons, which includes 23 in 2014-15, 22 in 2015-16 and 21 in 2019-20.
Driscoll led the Ospreys to three regular-season Atlantic Sun Conference championships (2015, 2016, 2020), while winning the league's tournament championship in 2015. He guided the school to three postseason appearances, including the school's first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2015 where they lost to Robert Morris in the First Four. The team went to NIT the following year in 2015-16, while they earned a bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) before it was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Driscoll was three times selected as the Atlantic Sun (ASUN) Coach of the Year following his regular season championships in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2019-20. He was also the 2015 NABC District 3 Coach of the Year following the Ospreys' historic 23-win campaign, in which, they won both the regular season and tournament titles before advancing to the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
The longest tenured head coach in UNF history, Driscoll's teams own every single season program record except for steals, while they produced 27 of the 50 all-time triple-digit scoring outputs. The Ospreys set the ASUN record for points in a game during a 114-111 double-overtime win at Lipscomb on Feb. 16, 2023. His teams led the nation in 3-point field goals/game (12.0 in 2023-24 and 12.8 in 2024-25) and 3-point attempts/game (33.2 in 2023-24 and 25.8 in 2024-25) in each of the last two seasons, while they ranked in the top-10 in each of the past three seasons (fifth in makes/game (10.4) and sixth in attempts/game (28.4) in 2022-23).
Driscoll coached 13 of the program's 18 1,000-point scorers, including the top-4 all-time scorers and the only 2,000-point scorer in Dallas Moore (2,437; 2014-17).
Driscoll's 2014-15 team earned the school's first and only final Top 20 ranking in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major poll, while the Ospreys received their first-ever votes in The Associated Press (AP) poll this past season after road upset wins at South Carolina and Georgia Tech in November 2024. He guided them to five regular-season tournament titles (2009 South Mississippi Christmas Classic, 2010 and 2014 Cancun Challenge, 2012 Las Vegas Classic, 2015 Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational) and their only four wins over Power 4 teams (Purdue in 2014-15, Illinois in 2015-16 and South Carolina and Georgia Tech in 2024-25).
Individually, Driscoll mentored two ASUN Players of the Year (Dallas Moore [2015-16, 2016-17), three ASUN Defensive Players of the Year (Demarcus Daniels [2014-15, 2015-16] and Wajid Aminu [2018-19]), one ASUN Newcomer of the Year (Noah Horchler [2017-18]), two ASUN Freshmen of the Year (Dallas Moore [2013-14], Wajid Aminu [2016-17]) and three ASUN Scholar-Athletes of the Year (Trent Mackey [2015-16], JT Escobar [2018-19], Carter Hendricksen [2020-21]). He also had seven NABC All-District honorees, including First Teamers Dallas Moore (2015-16, 2016-17) and Chaz Lanier (2023-24).
Overall, Driscoll coached 19 ASUN all-conference selections, including 10 on the First Team, to go along with 11 All-Tournament and nine All-Freshmen picks. He also had 37 ASUN Players of the Week and 24 Newcomers of the Week. In addition to 16 ASUN All-Academic selections and 120 Academic Honor Roll members, he graduated every player who completed their career at UNF.
Driscoll's success is all the more impressive considering UNF is one of the youngest athletics programs in the country, having only started athletics in 1983 at the NAIA level before joining the Division II ranks in 1993 and eventually moving to Division I and Atlantic Sun Conference in 2005. The school only became eligible for the NCAA Tournament in his first season in 2009-10.
Driscoll earned his bachelor's degree in Education from Slippery Rock (Slippery Rock, Pa.) in 1992.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Driscoll and his wife, Carrie, are the parents of two sons: Chase and Paxton.
Driscoll comes to the Pack after spending last season as an associate head coach at Kansas State. Prior to his one season with the Wildcats, Driscoll was head coach at North Florida for 16 seasons.
He left the Ospreys as the all-time winningest coach in program and Atlantic Sun conference history.
A head coach for 20 seasons counting a four-year stint at Division III La Roche College in the mid-1990s, Driscoll has 274 career victories, including a school-record 248 at North Florida. In addition to being the winningest coach in Ospreys' history, he has the most wins (144) of any head coach in Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) history, boasting a career .550 winning percentage in league play. He won 15 or more games 10 times at UNF, while he finished .500 or better in ASUN play on 12 occasions. He owns the program's only three 20-win seasons, which includes 23 in 2014-15, 22 in 2015-16 and 21 in 2019-20.
Driscoll led the Ospreys to three regular-season Atlantic Sun Conference championships (2015, 2016, 2020), while winning the league's tournament championship in 2015. He guided the school to three postseason appearances, including the school's first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2015 where they lost to Robert Morris in the First Four. The team went to NIT the following year in 2015-16, while they earned a bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) before it was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Driscoll was three times selected as the Atlantic Sun (ASUN) Coach of the Year following his regular season championships in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2019-20. He was also the 2015 NABC District 3 Coach of the Year following the Ospreys' historic 23-win campaign, in which, they won both the regular season and tournament titles before advancing to the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
The longest tenured head coach in UNF history, Driscoll's teams own every single season program record except for steals, while they produced 27 of the 50 all-time triple-digit scoring outputs. The Ospreys set the ASUN record for points in a game during a 114-111 double-overtime win at Lipscomb on Feb. 16, 2023. His teams led the nation in 3-point field goals/game (12.0 in 2023-24 and 12.8 in 2024-25) and 3-point attempts/game (33.2 in 2023-24 and 25.8 in 2024-25) in each of the last two seasons, while they ranked in the top-10 in each of the past three seasons (fifth in makes/game (10.4) and sixth in attempts/game (28.4) in 2022-23).
Driscoll coached 13 of the program's 18 1,000-point scorers, including the top-4 all-time scorers and the only 2,000-point scorer in Dallas Moore (2,437; 2014-17).
Driscoll's 2014-15 team earned the school's first and only final Top 20 ranking in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major poll, while the Ospreys received their first-ever votes in The Associated Press (AP) poll this past season after road upset wins at South Carolina and Georgia Tech in November 2024. He guided them to five regular-season tournament titles (2009 South Mississippi Christmas Classic, 2010 and 2014 Cancun Challenge, 2012 Las Vegas Classic, 2015 Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational) and their only four wins over Power 4 teams (Purdue in 2014-15, Illinois in 2015-16 and South Carolina and Georgia Tech in 2024-25).
Individually, Driscoll mentored two ASUN Players of the Year (Dallas Moore [2015-16, 2016-17), three ASUN Defensive Players of the Year (Demarcus Daniels [2014-15, 2015-16] and Wajid Aminu [2018-19]), one ASUN Newcomer of the Year (Noah Horchler [2017-18]), two ASUN Freshmen of the Year (Dallas Moore [2013-14], Wajid Aminu [2016-17]) and three ASUN Scholar-Athletes of the Year (Trent Mackey [2015-16], JT Escobar [2018-19], Carter Hendricksen [2020-21]). He also had seven NABC All-District honorees, including First Teamers Dallas Moore (2015-16, 2016-17) and Chaz Lanier (2023-24).
Overall, Driscoll coached 19 ASUN all-conference selections, including 10 on the First Team, to go along with 11 All-Tournament and nine All-Freshmen picks. He also had 37 ASUN Players of the Week and 24 Newcomers of the Week. In addition to 16 ASUN All-Academic selections and 120 Academic Honor Roll members, he graduated every player who completed their career at UNF.
Driscoll's success is all the more impressive considering UNF is one of the youngest athletics programs in the country, having only started athletics in 1983 at the NAIA level before joining the Division II ranks in 1993 and eventually moving to Division I and Atlantic Sun Conference in 2005. The school only became eligible for the NCAA Tournament in his first season in 2009-10.
Driscoll earned his bachelor's degree in Education from Slippery Rock (Slippery Rock, Pa.) in 1992.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Driscoll and his wife, Carrie, are the parents of two sons: Chase and Paxton.
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