Dick DiBiaso

{{short description|American basketball player and coach}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|2|6}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|10|19|1941|2|6}}

| death_place = Auburn, California, U.S.

| player_years1 = 1958–1962

| player_team1 = Mansfield State

| player_positions = Point guard

| coach_years1 = 1964–1968

| coach_team1 = Beacon HS

| coach_years2 = 1968–1971

| coach_team2 = Virginia (assistant)

| coach_years3 = 1971–1975

| coach_team3 = Notre Dame (assistant)

| coach_years4 = 1975–1982

| coach_team4 = Stanford

| overall_record = 70–118

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| awards = Pac-8 Co-Coach of the Year (1976)

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Richard J. DiBiaso (February 6, 1941 – October 19, 2017) was an American college basketball coach for Stanford University.

From Monessen, Pennsylvania, DiBiaso played college basketball for coach Bill Gibson at Mansfield State (now Mansfield University of Pennsylvania). Years later, DiBiaso got his college coaching break from Beacon High School in Beacon, New York, when Gibson hired him as an assistant at Virginia. In 1971, Digger Phelps added DiBiaso to his first staff at Notre Dame, where he stayed until 1975.{{cite news|title= Stanford's 'DiBo' and his streaks |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49923982/the-sacramento-bee/ |newspaper=Sacramento Bee|date=April 13, 1975|page=28|via =Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 30, 2020}} {{Open access}}

in 1975, DiBiaso was named head coach at Stanford. In his first season, DiBiaso took a team that returned one starter and experienced significant injuries to a 9–18 record. Eleven of the losses were by six points are fewer. His efforts were recognized at the end of the season when he was named Pac-8 Conference co-coach of the year with George Raveling.{{cite news|title= Raveling, DiBiaso share Pac-8 honor |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49924725/the-spokesman-review/ |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review|date=March 12, 1976|page=16|via =Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 30, 2020}} {{Open access}} DiBiaso would stay for several more seasons and was given a two-year contract in February 1981.{{cite news |title=Dick DiBiaso, who became Stanford's head basketball coach in... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/02/14/Dick-DiBiaso-who-became-Stanfords-head-basketball-coach-in/2019350974800/ |accessdate=April 30, 2020 |work=United Press International |date=February 14, 1981}} However, he announced he was resigning at the end of the 1981–82 season in February 1982.{{cite news|title= Search begins for new coach |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49925572/the-san-francisco-examiner/ |newspaper=San Francisco Examiner|date=February 9, 1982|page=54|via =Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 30, 2020}} {{Open access}}

DiBiaso died on October 19, 2017, in Auburn, California.{{cite news|title= Remembering Dick DiBiaso |url= https://gostanford.com/news/2017/10/25/mens-basketball-remembering-dick-dibiaso.aspx |date=October 25, 2017 |website=Stanford Cardinal|accessdate=April 29, 2020}}