Held September 19, 2026 · Queens, NY

NYC Honor Coaches Clinic

Five Division I coaches, one Saturday in Queens.

This clinic was held September 19, 2026 at St. Francis Prep.

Coaches who want to hear about the next one can email eslyn@nychonor.org.

Date
September 19, 202611:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Where
St. Francis PrepFresh Meadows, Queens
501(c)(3) public charity  ·  Candid Silver Seal 2026

The coaches

Five Division I programs were in one gym: Fairfield, Manhattan and Marist from the MAAC, plus Hofstra and La Salle.

Chris Casey

Head Men's Basketball Coach, Fairfield University

Head coach at Fairfield since March 2024, after taking the job on an interim basis. He has won 20 or more games twice: 24 wins in 2023-24 and a 21-13 season in 2025-26. Only one other coach in school history has done that.

John Gallagher

Head Men's Basketball Coach, Manhattan University

Head coach at Manhattan since March 2023, with 24 years coaching college basketball. He won 169 games at Hartford and took them to the NCAA Tournament in 2021. In one year at Manhattan he turned a 7 win team into a 17 win team.

Mike DePaoli

Associate Head Coach, Hofstra University

In his fifth year on the Hofstra staff and his first as associate head coach, after 11 seasons at Fordham. Hofstra has finished top two in the CAA for defense in each of the last four years. Last season they won 24 games, took the conference title, and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2001.

Dalip Bhatia

Associate Head Coach, Marist University

In his eighth season at Marist and second as associate head coach. He was on the Saint Peter's staff for the 2011 MAAC championship and the program's first NCAA Tournament trip since 1995, and later spent three years at Rutgers. He is the first Division I men's basketball assistant or associate head coach of Indian descent in NCAA history.

Safet Kastrat

Assistant Coach/General Manager, La Salle University

La Salle's first-ever men's basketball general manager, hired in 2022 as video coordinator under Fran Dunphy before the promotion. He previously worked at Radford under now-La Salle head coach Darris Nichols and at Rider under Kevin Baggett.

What the clinic was built around

It was a working clinic, not a panel, built for high school, CYO, AAU and youth coaches who run their own practices.

A real practice plan

How a college staff builds a session. What they cut when the clock runs short. Which drills they keep all season.

Answers to coaches' questions

Time for coaches to ask about their own teams and personnel, which a clinic video cannot offer.

How they pick players

What college coaches actually look at when they watch high school players, and what a coach can do about it from the bench.

Who is behind the clinic

NYC Honor is a 501(c)(3) public charity in Queens, and it runs a basketball program alongside a financial literacy program. Clinic registrations did not fund it. Donations do, and this is the work they pay for.

A Division I offer

On August 2, Boston University offered a scholarship to Anthony Mauro, now a senior, with one season still ahead of him.

Money, taught properly

Every athlete can take the financial literacy and NIL curriculum, built by foundation volunteers, at no cost to the family.

The 2026 season

The team reached the championship game in Baltimore and put out Team Iverson to get there. See the season.

$5,000

carries one team for a full season: travel, uniforms, and tournament entry. That is the unit the foundation raises against, and any part of it helps.

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Clinic registration was a ticket, not a donation, and was not tax deductible. A gift to the foundation is. NYC Honor Foundation Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 42-1836369, holder of the Candid Silver Seal of Transparency 2026.

Two free tools while you are here

NYC Honor builds these and gives them away. No signup, no email required.

About the clinic

Who was it for?

Head coaches, assistants and volunteers at the high school, CYO, AAU and youth levels. There was no experience requirement and no affiliation needed.

Where was it held?

St. Francis Prep, 6100 Francis Lewis Blvd, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, on September 19, 2026.

Who received the registration payments?

Mike Murray, who ran the clinic. They did not go to NYC Honor Foundation, and a clinic ticket was a purchase, not a tax deductible gift. Donations to the foundation are a separate thing and do go to the foundation.

Who ran it?

Mike Murray and Nas Perovic ran the clinic. To hear about the next one, email eslyn@nychonor.org.