Tom Herrion

Tom Herrion is now a basketball assistant coach for the University of South Florida. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Herrion earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Merrimack College in 1989. As a Merrimack undergrad, he played basketball and baseball and worked as a student auxiliary coach in 1986–87. He also spent two seasons as the junior varsity coach at Cambridge Ridge and Latin High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

At Oxford High School in Oxford, Massachusetts, Herrion was a three-year letter winner in baseball and basketball.

Herrion is descended from a long history of coaches. Jim Herrion, his father, was a well-known high school coach in the New York City Catholic League before moving on to Holy Cross as an associate coach and then Worcester Polytechnic Institute as head coach. His older brother, Bill Herrion, has been the head basketball coach at the University of New Hampshire since 2005. Bill was previously the head coach at East Carolina University from 1999 to 2005 and Drexel University from 1991 to 1999.

Tom Herrion served as the head basketball coach at Marshall University and the College of Charleston. During his eight years as a head coach Herrion attained a .583 winning percentage and took three teams to post-season tournaments. Herrion’s 2002-03 team was ranked in the top 25 Nationally on the heals of capturing the 2002 Great Alaska Shootout Championship.

Herrion's collegiate coaching experience includes stints as an assistant coach at the University of Virginia (1999–2002), Providence College (1994–98), and NCAA Division II Merrimack College (1989–94). He assisted for Pete Gillen at both Virginia and Providence for eight seasons. In four seasons, Herrion helped Gillen lead Virginia to a 70–50 (58 percent) record and three postseason games. Among his responsibilities were attracting student-athletes, arranging and analyzing opponents, assisting with training management, and game planning. The Cavaliers' recruiting classes were ranked in the top ten in the country in three of his four seasons with the team.

Throughout the 2006–07 season, Herrion functioned as a television analyst for both ESPN Regional and Comcast, providing analysis for Conference USA games. Prior to joining Pittsburgh as an assistant head coach, he worked at the Nike All-American Camp and the Michael Jordan Flight School as a college talent development consultant.