Joe Breschi
Head Coach · North Carolina
Named head coach in 2008
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- National championships × 1100
- Players drafted × 3090
- Career wins × 27468.5
- Final Fours × 250
- NCAA tournament wins × 1248
- NCAA tournament appearances × 1545
- Title games × 140
- Conference regular-season titles × 936
- Head-coaching seasons × 2929
- Win % points above .500 × 13.413.4
- Conference tournament titles × 210
- Tewaaraton finalists × 16
How it's scored: the board explains the weights (a national title is 100, a Final Four 25, a Tewaaraton winner 25).
Key numbers
- Career W-L
- 274-158
- D1 head coach · .634
- NCAA appearances
- 15
- NCAA wins
- 12
- Final Fours
- 2
- Championships
- 1
- Conference titles
- 9 / 2
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 1
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 30 or more
Every number counts his Division I head-coaching jobs only. — is unknown (not found in the public pages read), never zero. A + means at least that many; * marks a record missing a D1 job or a season. Numbers labeled for his current school don't include his earlier D1 head-coaching jobs.
Career
- 182-95 (thru 2026)
Head coach · 2009–present
92-63Head coach · 1998–2008
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026NCAA tournament
- 2025NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2021Final Four · Conference regular-season title
- 2017NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title
- 2016National champion · Conference regular-season title
- 2015NCAA tournament
- 2014NCAA tournament
- 2013NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2012NCAA tournament
- 2011NCAA tournament
- 2010NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2009NCAA tournament
- 2008NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2004NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 2003NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 1999Conference regular-season title
The seasons the pages name. A bio's narrative may not name every season, so this list can be short of his totals above.
Tewaaraton Award
- finalistOwen Duffy · North Carolina2026
Credited to the head coach of the player's school that season. Winners 2001–2026; finalists 2024–2026 only (older finalist lists aren't on the foundation's site).
All-Americans
— USILA's full lists couldn't be read yet, so no All-American is counted for any coach. What his school says is below.
Honors
- 2016 · USILA Coach of the Year
- 2010 · ACC Coach of the Year
- 2013 · ACC Coach of the Year
- 2021 · ACC Coach of the Year
- 2025 · ACC Coach of the Year
In the school's words
- “Senior attackman Marcus Holman was UNC's first Tewaaraton Trophy finalist since 2004” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://goheels.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://goheels.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/joe-breschi/4710 · year named head coach, career stops, career record, record at his school, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_men%27s_lacrosse · record, conference titles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels_men%27s_lacrosse · record
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_lacrosse_tournament_appearances_by_school · NCAA appearances, NCAA wins, Final Fours
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · title games, championships
- https://www.tewaaraton.com/post/announcing-the-men-s-and-women-s-finalists-for-the-2026-tewaaraton-award-presented-by-stifel · Tewaaraton
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.