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Assistant Coach
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| Experience:
First Season at UM
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| Alma Mater:
Westfield (Mass.) State College, 2002
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Chris Caputo enters his first season with the Hurricanes and his 10th season on head coach Jim Larranaga's staff. Entering his seventh season as an assistant coach, his primary responsibilities include recruiting and scouting the opposition.
Caputo played a major role in George Mason's run to the Final Four in 2006, putting together scouting reports to prepare the Patriots as they played nationally-ranked teams and future NBA players in nearly every round.
He has also helped lead the Patriots to the postseason for a Mason-record four-straight seasons -including NCAA berths in 2008 and 2011. In 2011, the team defeated Villanova to advance to the third round of the NCAA Tournament, earned a regular-season CAA title and posted a school-record tying 27 wins. In 2009, he helped Mason to an NIT bid and its second-straight 20-win season, and in 2008, Caputo helped the Patriots to their second-highest win total in school history as they beat nationally-ranked Kansas State and won the CAA title for the first time since 2001.
As an assistant at Mason, Hoopscoop.com named him one of the Top 25 non-BCS assistant coaches in the nation. In 2010, Caputo attended the Villa 7 Consortium, an educational symposium and networking opportunity for some of the nation's top assistants. In 2011 alone, 19 alum of Villa 7 have been hired as head coaches.
Prior to becoming an assistant coach, Caputo worked on Larranaga's staff as the video coordinator, coordinated the staff recruiting database and mailing system, as well as serving in other administrative capacities.
A native of Elmhurst, N.Y., Caputo is a 2002 graduate of Westfield (Mass.) State College with a degree in finance and economics. He was a four-year letterwinner as a point guard for the Division III Owls, and served as captain and earned the team's Outstanding Contributor Award as a senior. A 1998 graduate of Archbishop Molloy High School - Larranaga's alma mater, he too played for legendary head coach Jack Curran.
Caputo and his wife Julie married in May.
