Robert Morris University men’s basketball head coach Andrew Toole announced today the hiring of Joe Gallo as an assistant coach with the Colonials. Gallo comes to Robert Morris after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., under head coach Paul Cormier.

We first mentioned this in the "Robert Morris Update" on June 13th (http://hoopdirt.com/blog/c498dfa5/robert-morris-update/…).

Gallo spent one year with The Hoop Group in Neptune, N.J., from August 2009 to August 2010, assisting in running the largest basketball exposure camp in the country for high school players. During his time with The Hoop Group, Gallo established and maintained relationships with various high school and AAU coaches along the East Coast.

Gallo started his coaching career at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., spending four years as an assistant coach with the Warriors from 2005 to 2009.

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