Piscataway boys’ basketball coach Bob Turco is honored at mid-court after winning his 400th career game. It came in a 94-73 home win over West Orange. (Photo courtesy John Thompson)
Bob Turco is the latest member of the “400 win” club in New Jersey.
The veteran skipper picked up his 400th win Wednesday night in Piscataway, where his Chiefs were 94-73 winners over West Orange in an early-season non-conference tilt.
Turco is now 400-127 in his 20th year of coaching, giving him an average of 21 wins a year at a mix of both public and private schools.
After starting out as an assistant at his alma mater, Carteret, working under his younger brother Dave – who’s now at Kean and coached St. Joseph-Metuchen to a Tournament of Champions title in 2014 – the younger Turco moved on to Monroe, where he was 97-42 over five seasons. He then spent seven seasons at Notre Dame in Lawrenceville (155-45) and six at St. Thomas Aquinas in Edison (122-34) before moving to Piscataway last season.
Last year, he took over a team that was 11-14 in 2023-24 and got them to the GMC Tournament final, where they fell to Colonia, 70-63. It was the program’s first county title game appearance since 2019, but Turco’s fifth straight trip, having made the previous four – winning three – as head coach at Aquinas.
He’s also the first and only coach in GMC history to take three different teams to the finals, also taking Monroe in 2010, when they played St. Joseph and his brother, Dave.
The Chiefs host Aquinas – where Turco remains a Vice-Principal – Thursday night, then Old Bridge Saturday afternoon before heading to Colonia Monday for a 6 pm game you can hear live on Central Jersey Sports Radio, with Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel calling all the action.
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