Joe Pasternack
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UC Santa Barbara |
| Conference | Big West |
| Record | 0-0 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
April 15, 1977 Metairie, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Indiana |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2001–2007 | California (asst.) |
| 2007–2011 | New Orleans |
| 2011–2013 | Arizona (asst.) |
| 2013–2017 | Arizona (assoc. HC) |
| 2017–present | UC Santa Barbara |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 54–60 |
Joe Pasternack (born April 15, 1977) is an American college basketball coach. He is the current head coach at UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, having been appointed to the position in March 2017.
Pasternack served for four years (2007-11) as the head coach of the New Orleans Privateers. The University of Arizona hired Pasternack in 2011, and promoted him to Associate Head Coach of the Wildcats in 2013. In his six seasons with the team, it was 174-47.
Pasternack was born in Metairie, Louisiana, grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is Jewish. His parents are Joe Jr. and Sarah Pasternack. He attended Sunday school at a Reform synagogue in New Orleans, and became a bar mitzvah.
He and his wife, Lindsay (née Bernstein), have a son Joe IV and a daughter Lilly. His wife served on the board of directors of the Tucson Jewish Community Center. Her brother Roxy Bernstein is a college basketball play-by-play announcer for ESPN.
Pasternack played four years of high school varsity basketball as a shooting guard at Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie, Louisiana.
He attended Indiana University, where he spent four years as a student manager for the Hoosiers men's basketball team under head coach Bob Knight. He graduated in 1999 with a B.S. in Marketing.
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